‘GIMS Pro’

As GIMS foundation we have a focus on the improvement of Medication Safety in LMIC’s.  IT is one of the ways to help pharmaceutical professionals to be able to perform these tasks towards their community.  That is why we are in the process of creating ‘GIMS Pro’.

Goal:

Create (locally customized and serviced) open source IT products (software and a national product database) focussed upon pharmaceutical professionals which will be able to help to enhance Medication Safety for the general public in LMIC’s.

These IT products require nationally organized supporting entities for education, technical support, maintenance and further national development.

Ideally these entities are, or will be, incorporated in a national Professional Pharmaceutical Society, or likewise, so the professionals themselves can direct the desired functional IT- and organisational goals/destination, and shall have no commercial goals.

Path:

-The specific national situation (technical, judicial, economical, safety and professional attitude) is sufficiently adequate to start the process.

-GIMS foundation operates as the party which supplies the licence (free of charge) for the standardized IT-products.

-GIMS foundation delivers the corresponding consultancy in the process of realising the nationally desired versions and entities.

-The national entities are, for their territory, the owner of the nationally developed ‘GIMS Pro’-versions.

-GIMS foundation functions after national implementation as a GIMS-family in which users are connected and further developments are guided.

Technical:

-Internet based,

-open source software,

-both a product database and corresponding software is needed,

-product data base derived from the Dutch ‘G-standaard’ and adepted to local situation,

-ideally a patient file database is possible,

-the software should be very flexible in the desired/operational functionalities,

Technical:

-Internet based,

-open source software,

-both a product database and corresponding software is needed,

-product data base derived from the Dutch ‘G-standaard’ and adepted to local situation,

-ideally a patient file database is possible,

-the software should be very flexible in the desired/operational functionalities,

-functionalities can be:

*Dosage control (age and sex dependent)

*Checks on Interactions between co-used medicines

*Checks on Contra-indications:

#Diabetes

#High blood pressure

#Asthma

#HIV, TB, Malaria

#Pregnancy

#Intolerances

#Kidney function

*(pro-)active searches in case of the availability of adequate patient files