Selected Medicine Information Systems
Counterfeit medicines -
Medicines price information - List servers
and electronic discussion groups - Essential
Medicines Library - INN -
INRUD - WHO Model Formulary -
Model web site for Drug Regulatory Authorities The MDRA project
provides criteria and guidance for establishing new or strengthening
existing regulatory web sites; The MDRA project is a component of a broader technical
collaboration between WHO and WHO member states. The collaboration aims
at supporting efficient drug registration and encompassing legislation,
regulations, human resources, and appropriate facilities. See also:
Support tools for Medicines regulation
The WHO SIAMED project provides a
computerized tool to small regulatory authorities; this is to facilitate the
process of managing marketing authorizations of medicines. The
system can be adapted to the needs and level of complexity of
medicines regulatory agencies and assistance to make effective use of it.
The provision and implementation of SIAMED is a component of a broader
technical collaboration between WHO and WHO member states which
aims at: supporting efficient drug registration and encompassing
legislation, regulations, human resources, and appropriate facilities. A software package developed in
several languages for the management of microbiology
laboratory data and analysis of antimicrobial susceptibility test results. Download:
ftp://ftp.who.int/medicines/
See also Drug
resistance: surveillance For further information please
contact: mednet@who.int
SIAMED - WHONET
ATC/DDD
Counterfeit and substandard
medicines reporting
Click here
for reporting counterfeit cases
Drug Dictionary (WHO)
The WHO Drug Dictionary is developed and
maintained by the WHO Collaborating Centre in Uppsala (Sweden). The
Uppsala Centre for International Drug Monitoring(the UMC) can be contacted
at the following address:
info@umc-products.com Further information on all related products can
be found on the website:
http://www.who-umc.org/
Drug
price info: medicine price tools and on-line databases
Electronic discussion groups and list servers
Essential Medicines Library
(EMLib)
The purpose of the Essential Medicines
Library is to
provide a reference library for the
Model list of
Essential Medicines and the WHO Model formulary. The database
provides an on-line query feature for the current WHO Model List of
Essential Medicines; it is being restructured to allow for managing
information by patient groups, in particular for generating a model
treatment formulary for children.
For further information
please contact
emlsecretariat@who.int
Estimating medicine requirements
Several initiatives and tools exist for
quantification of medicines: Management Sciences for Health has developed a
tool for Pharmaceutical Quantification and cost estimation tool:
"QuantiMed". Also, WHO has commissioned a computerized
tool for Estimating drug requirements for HIV/AIDS patients: "FocaMed"
which is currently being field tested.
INN - search and
application tools
MedNet INN offers various services ranging from International
Nonproprietary Name (INN) queries to
electronic submission and status tracking of INN applications (eINN) by pharmaceutical
manufacturers and/or national authorities. For information and technical advice on INN please
see INN on our
Medicines web site or contact the
INN Programme.
INRUD - International
Network for Rational Use of Drugs
The International Network for
Rational Use of Drugs (INRUD) was established in 1989 to design, test, and
disseminate effective strategies to improve the way drugs are prescribed,
dispensed, and used, with a particular emphasis on resource poor countries.
The network now comprises 20 groups, 15 from Africa, Asia and Latin America,
and other groups from the World Health Organization/ Department of Essential
Drugs and Medicines Policy, the Harvard Medical School Department of
Ambulatory Care, the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, the University of
Newcastle in Australia, and a secretariat based in Management Sciences for
Health in the United States. Follow this link for the
INRUD bibliography
WMF - WHO Model formulary
The purpose of this site is to provide free internet access the WHO Model
Formulary. Contact:
modelformulary@who.int
Medicine supply systems
Various systems are in use by pharmaceutical
companies as well as international aid organizations and NGOs. A
non-exhaustive list of systems used by some of our partner organizations is
available.
Please share your experiences with procurement and warehouse
management systems with us:
medinfosys@mednet-communities.net
MDRA - Examples of Drug Regulatory Authority
web sites developed with WHO support
The purpose of the
Model web sites for Drug Regulatory Agencies (MDRA)
project is to assist medicines regulatory
authorities in the establishment of web sites. Web presence of regulatory
agencies has becoming a necessity for many countries, particularly with
respect to the presence and activities
of many internet based
drugstores, pharmacies and other related web sites which are not subject to any quality control and in many cases
disseminate doubtful if not harmful medical information. Examples of
collaboration wit national regulatory authorities:
Ethiopia http://www.daca.gov.et
Tunisia: http://www.dpm.tn
Mali: http://www.dirpharma.org
Kenya:
http://www.pharmacyboardkenya.org
Tanzania: http://www.tfda.or.tz/
Uganda:
http://www.health.go.ug/National_drug.htm
SIAMED - Model software for drug regulatory agencies
More information
WHONET
Management of laboratory data