Prescribing

MIMS Subscription

Genie uses prescribing data supplied by MIMS Australia. This is supplied on the quarterly update CD to those users with a current MIMS subscription for electronic prescribing data.

To subscribe to MIMS:

Visit their website at http://www.mims.com.au, or

Phone MIMS on 1800 800 629, or

Print, complete and send the subscription form supplied with Genie. This is in the Subscriptions folder, inside the Genie folder on your hard drive.

MIMS Prescribing Data

The MIMS Prescribing data is the equivalent of the MIMS quarterly book and is supplied as raw data which is imported into your Genie database at each official Genie update. It is initially installed within a folder called “MIMS Data” within your Genie folder.

When Genie is launched it searches for this folder. If it finds it, Genie offers to import the new information. Once it has been imported, Genie deletes the contents of the MIMS Data folder, so that you aren’t asked to update at each startup.

If your MIMS subscription is more than 4 months out of date you will be presented with the following window.  If you click the Delete MIMS button the MIMS database will be deleted, resulting in you no longer having access to this information.

Clicking once on a prescription in the Prescription list will display the MIMS Quarterly in the display area (only if your screen supports the large clinical window).

MIMS Annual

The MIMS Annual is the equivalent of the large “Blue Book”. This is also supplied on each quarterly update CD.

The MIMS Annual can be accessed directly from within Genie. It is generated from XML files held in the MIMS Annual folder in the Genie folder.

Double clicking on a prescription in the Prescription List will open the MIMS Annual in a web browser.