Many of you may know the popular neonatal drug database called "Neofax".
It used to be available as a small pocket book (which is still commonly used on our ward), quite a while ago it was also available as an iOS app.
However, now I can only find it distributed by a company named micromedex and I don´t really know how to get access to it neither can I find any pricing.

Does anybody of you have experience with this new app? How much does it cost?

Thanks, 
Mahatma

Hi Mahatma, My facility has a subscription to Neofax on our portable computers. The last published books were in 2011, I believe. The program is easy to use - once you are in just start typing the name of the drug, it will jump to a selection on the list, when you choose it the info page comes up very similar to the book.

it is also available as a paid for app for iPhones, I think it was $29/yr. from Truven Health Analytics.

Support:

http://www.micromedex.com/support/mobilerequest/

I can try to get the cost info for you for the facility wide program.

Regards, Gayle

 

 

An old idea/feature I would love to launch is an eHandbook here on 99nicu. Accessible as a "tab" in the menu above.

A pharmacopedia would be a piece of cake to create with a crowd-sourced approach. There are plenty of Pubmed'ed info that we could refer to (i.e. of course we need to create our own text, not copy&pasting from copyrighted sources).

@Stefan, this would be a great idea!
we should get people interested in this kind of "open-source" pharmacopeia for neonatologists.

@Gayle: thanks so much for your information. I am more interested in this neofax app, so I think I should contact micromedex to get a subscription license for an iPhone app.
(although I find this kind of distribution somehow annoying because they don´t state the amount of charging on their website).....

@mahatma the old idea has come to life  and I think we really should give it a try. Once I feel the plugin is configured as needed I will start a new thread about the idea, and how we can get this going. For example, I think would need a small editorial board for a eHandbook.

And I attach a screenshot as a cliff-hanger...

Fantastic idea. Really our old paper-based Neofax are now probably outdated and the new distribution is not easy to get outside a hospital-based subscription.

I am available to help with your idea of constructing an open-access dosing book for 99nicu's members.

 

We use an excel-file with our medications we could use as a list to start with.

Further thoughts: a pharmacologist?

its a very good idea, hope to see something soon.

On 2015-12-30 at 8:31 AM, fcardona said:

We use an excel-file with our medications we could use as a list to start with.

Further thoughts: a pharmacologist?

Would be great with a pharmacologist on board!

Let's talk when we meet  

Dear all

I wish an excellent 2016 for all 99nicu members!

Concerning the dosing book it could be a good idea to select a group of editors, each one with reponsability for one or two chapters (like in Neofax - antibiotics, respiratory, CNS...) and start working. I also beleive a pharmacologist editor would be advisable, as previously suggested. 

Could this be based online in the forum and in the future translated into a smartphone app?

Best regards

Andre

Hi Stefan

dont have much experience with neofax; in UK we use bnfc.

i am happy to make it work.

Ravi

@raviagarwal could you please email me on stefan.johansson@99nicu.org - just to keep interested people in one place. I will get back within 1-2 weeks.

I use the neofax app too. We could put here one by one the medications and all the book data, I don`t believe this could be wrong, What do You think ??

Thank You.

21 hours ago, Fossari said:

I use the neofax app too. We could put here one by one the medications and all the book data, I don`t believe this could be wrong, What do You think ??

Thank You.

I don't know the Neofax terms & conditions but I would guess it is copyright-protected material.

However, all drug dosages and indications are really available in "the public domain", i.e. Pubmed, so we should be able to create our own Pharmacopedia relatively easy.

I agree with Stefan. We should be very careful with copy-paste temptations from Neofax, since they developed from a drug-company offered book into a more complex profit-seeking solution. 

Would you agree on splitting the editorial responsibility between the editors for different areas?

Regards

 

 

On 12 maj 2016 at 11:49 PM, amgraca said:

Would you agree on splitting the editorial responsibility between the editors for different areas?

Def. See my reply in startup-thread. Have also update our DB doc of the editorial board

 

On 12/05/2016 at 4:42 AM, Stefan Johansson said:

I don't know the Neofax terms & conditions but I would guess it is copyright-protected material.

However, all drug dosages and indications are really available in "the public domain", i.e. Pubmed, so we should be able to create our own Pharmacopedia relatively easy.

Yes, i bellieve you are right, I will look at it and send You a message, Okay. Thank You for the chance trying to help, I saw the way You guys are doing with the drugs I see that way too, It could be not so difficult for us to our pharmacopedia.

Great work.