Automatically Updating MDref and Ancillary Content

MedicalDirector periodically releases updates to content for MedicalDirector Clinical.

Such content includes:
  • Consumer Medicines Information
  • Lab Tests (available to the Investigations Requests module)
  • Letter Writer templates (supplied by MedicalDirector)
  • MDref (the medications database)
  • NPS Radar
  • Product Information
  • Travel Medicine
  • Other ancillary files and documentation

These updates are bundled together and made available for download as a single file, which is then installed on your computers running MedicalDirector Clinical.

Prior to version 3.15.3 of Clinical, it was a requirement that the MDref update was installed manually on each computer running Clinical.

As from version 3.15.3 however, you are only required to install the update to your server computer; content updates are copied and installed automatically from your server to your workstation, as required, when a user does any of the following;
  • Logs on to Clinical.
  • Opens a patient's record.
  • Accesses Product Information, Consumer Medicines Information, or NPS Radar.
  • Accesses the Pathology, Cytology, or X-ray Request modules.
Note:
The ability for you to apply updated MDref packages manually is still available, should you choose to deploy them in this manner.
MDref updates are deployed to your MedicalDirector Clinical computer(s) as follows:
  1. An MDref package update is released by MedicalDirector. This file is made available to you:
    • As a download from the MedicalDirector web site, and
    • As a download using the MedicalDirector Automatic Update utility, installed with MedicalDirector Clinical. As from version 3.15.3, MedicalDirector Automatic Update (previously known as HCN Automatic Update) allows you to schedule and run a 'silent' MDref download/installation to your Server computer i.e. you simply indicate when you want the download-and-update process to occur, and as updates become available they will be downloaded to your server computer, and installed automatically.
  2. The MDref update is installed on your server computer. This can either be done manually (if you downloaded the package yourself), or via the Automatic Update utility.Once the MDref package has been installed on your server computer, the updated MDref medications database is immediately available to users running Clinical on their workstations. The remaining updated content is transferred to your workstation computer(s), and installed automatically, as required.