NHIOnDemand Launches Traditional Medicines Database with Malaysian Government
Harleysville, PA (July 2007) NHIOnDemand, the only global provider of integrative
medical information, announced today the launch of their five year collaborative
project with the Ministry of Health, Malaysia. The new website,
GlobInMed.com, featuring both NHI’s content
and technology, was launched this week at the International Conference on Traditional/Complementary
Medicine and Materia Medica in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The Interaction Database contains over 5,000 combinations of interactions between
herbs and drugs, supplements and drugs, and herbs and supplements. All interactions
listed in the database carry a rating based upon the amount of clinical evidence
available.. This is done in an effort to allow the user to quickly review possible
conflicts between supplement use and current drug therapies.
The GlobInMed site is a prototype for an ongoing project by the Commonwealth Nations
to document traditional medicines on a global basis and to make that information
available to all nations involved in the process. The GlobInMed project has exceeded
the prototype model in that it already provides information from global sources
in such areas as sustainable agriculture, international trade, intellectual property
and regulations governing use and manufacturing of botanical products. NHI's new
advanced health/medicinal knowledge management technologies enabled the teams to
bring together diverse content into a structured, centralized environment.
NHI's corporate and technology partner in Malaysia is Forte Tech Solutions Sdn Bhd,
a diversified company with an emphasis on medical information systems. Dierdre Allen,
Vice President of Content and Regulatory Affairs for NHI states, "This has been
a massive undertaking that many people said could not be done. I give credit to
the teams from the Institute of Medical Research, Ministry of Health, Forte Tech
and to our own NHI team for maintaining the tenacity required to accomplish such
a worthwhile goal."
NHI is the content and technology division of Ask Destiny Content Communications
Group located in Harleysville, Pennsylvania.
For more information on the GlobInMed
project or on NHI products and services, contact NHI at 215-513-7300, ext. 236 or
online at http://www.nhiondemand.com.