Data Accuracy

We parse all aspects of all data to allow standardisation and consistency of terms for all properties, linking to clusters of hierarchies of Medical Coding Systems. This allows comprehensive interaction between coded data about a patient held in an electronic clinical healthcare record, and data about a drug product present in our databases.

Hence in software design, all that one has to ask a system to look for is a match between codes held in the patient record, with those held against a chosen drug product; this allows a highly specific alert system for the user, and avoids the more usual information-overload associated with some systems.

The databases contain ALL products which are drugs or deemed to have some ‘medicinal’ use (i.e. includes herbal and homoeopathic preparations and all over-the-counter products), as well as all medical appliances.

All products are ‘ingredient-coded’ (including appliances) to a sub-ingredient level (i.e. using the example of Hydrocortisone, the coded properties reflect the mode of administration (oral, parenteral, topical, rectal, ocular, etc) to allow for differences in indications, contraindications, side effects, interactions, use in Pregnancy, Renal compromise, etc).