{"id":7005,"date":"2017-08-09T11:25:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T09:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openstate.mu.openstate.eu\/en\/?p=7005"},"modified":"2017-08-09T15:45:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T13:45:33","slug":"data-on-use-of-medicins-to-be-published-as-open-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/2017\/08\/data-on-use-of-medicins-to-be-published-as-open-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Data on use of medicins to be published as open data"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the autumn, the Netherlands Health Institute<\/a> will publish data on developments in the use of medicines, medical aid instruments and associated costs from its GIPdatabase<\/a> as open data. On June 23, Open State Foundation requested the reuse of this government information from the GIP database in an open machine readable format.<\/p>\n

The data<\/a> includes medicines and medical aid instruments that are reimbursed by health insurers under the Health Insurance Act (basic health insurance). The Netherlands Health Institute has created two separate CSV files<\/a>: one for pharmaceutical care and one for medical instruments. The data sets contain volumes and costs of pharmaceutical care and medical aid instruments. The data relate to the years 2011 through 2015.<\/p>\n

Pharmaceutical care<\/h3>\n

For pharmaceutical care, the values \u200b\u200bare presented at the deepest ATC level (the active substance, as also presented on the GIP database). In the dataset pharmaceutical care one finds the total number of deliveries (declarations \/ issues); the total delivered standard day dosages; the total remuneration paid by health insurers (under the Health Insurance Act); the total number of unique users and a number of derivative variables, such as the average number of standard daydoses per user (DDD).<\/p>\n