Pharmacy Daily | AusDI updates names

Medical Director AusDI has announced that its June release now includes the recently updated ingredient names to support the Therapeutic Goods Administration‘s (TGA) International Harmonisation of Ingredient Names (IHIN) initiative. The TGA flagged to health professionals in Feb this year that some drug names in Australia are obsolete and that it intends to update some medicine ingredient names used in Australia to align with names used internationally (PD 09 Feb). The harmonisation program will use a four-year transition period for these changes, from Apr 2016 to Apr 2020. Some name changes are relatively minor such as changing ‘y’ to ‘i’ while other adjustments are more significant and will require manufacturers to carry both names on their labels and packaging. AusDI said it has optimised its product search, interactions & safety and browse functions enabling users to choose either the old or the new ingredient names as search parameters and updates have also been designed to work seamlessly across both the desktop and mobile platforms.

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