Medicine Databases BLUR and BLOZ

Unique and Rescue Medicines Database (BLUR)

The Unique and Rescue Medicines Database (BLUR) improves the exchange of information on medicines hard to get between doctors, pharmacists and other people that may have or search for such drugs.

The database is useful when:

- a rescue medication, hard to get in a pharmacy, is sought for,

- we have an expensive and redundant drug which may be used for medicinal purposes before its expiry date.

Each medicine in the database has a detailed drug card with the basic information on the medicine: name, form, dose, packaging, as well as contact details for authors of the entry.

Information in the database can be placed by doctors and pharmacists as well as other people who have the medicine or are interested in purchasing it. The correctness of data in the database is verified by the moderator of the OSOZ system.

The advantage of BLUR is comprehensive nature of search as an entry to the database is visible on the webpage as well as automatically sent to all pharmacies and doctors participating in the OSOZ project.

Medicine and Health Products Database (BLOZ)

The Nationwide Medicine and Health Products Database (BLOZ) provide ordered, structured and up-to-date information on medicines and health products available on the Polish pharmaceutical market.

The BLOZ database supports the work of IT systems intended for medicine and comprises an indispensable help in everyday ordinance of medicines. The benefits of using the BLOZ database for doctors include:

- quick issue and printing of prescriptions,

- possibility of searching for equivalents and substitutes of subsidized drugs,

- direct access to detailed information on all medicines,

- setting up medicines files with all necessary information received from manufacturers,

- issuing prescriptions compliant with applicable regulations of the Minister of Health and requirements of the National Health Fund.

The BLOZ database in specialist issues also provides a lot of information in additional modules:

- Interactions module - characterizing an interaction and describing its importance, specifying active substances of medicines

- Average prices module - containing average prices in the country from the Pharmacy Data Bank

- Trends module - containing diagrams and data on trends for medicines which have average prices in the database