Guild takes home award
August 5, 2010
THE Pharmacy Guild of
Australia’s healthlinks.net offshoot
has been awarded an Australian
Business Award for Innovation, at
this years Australian Business
Awards (ABA).
The award followed healthlinks’
recent completion of a project to
improve the appearance and
accessibility of Consumer Medicines
Information (CMI) for Australians
with print disabilities.
healthlinks.net was one of 105
businesses to take out an award,
out of a total of 1849 entries.
The project included creating
technical infrastructure capable of
delivering CMIs in multiple formats,
and converting more than 1500
CMI word documents into XML.
The improvements to the system
mean that healthlinks.net can now
“provide real time distribution of
CMIs to pharmacy dispensing
systems and online services; deliver
CMIs in standard (10pt) and large
(18pt) print at the point of
dispense; deliver CMIs in HTML for
websites, as well as to deliver CMIs
in synthetic voice audio files and
Braille (upon request).
In addition to these changes,
healthlinks.net has created the
“most up-to-date” central
repository of drug information in
Australia at www.medicines.org.au.
Services currently provided on
this website include the most
current CMIs in HTML, standard
and large print PDF; and PIs in
standard print PDF, with the next
stage to roll out the CMI Print
application to all dispensing
software vendors and complete the
online delivery of CMIs and PIs to
the TGA.
The Guild has also said that
come September medicines.org.au
will host synthetic voice audio
CMIs, and that plans are in the
works to create a mobile version
which would enable consumers to
listen to the audio CMIs on mobile
devices, including iPhones and
smartphones using the Android
and Windows Mobile system.
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