Summary
ClinSpark supports uploading of WHODrug and MedDRA dictionaries for use in medical coding. These dictionaries must be licensed and obtained by the customer from WHODrug and MedDRA respectively.
Upon licensing, you will have available from the respective organizations zip files containing the dictionaries. These original zip downloads are what can be loaded into ClinSpark.
In ClinSpark the dictionaries can be loaded by an administrative user here:
NOTE: Medical dictionaries are LARGE files and frequently take several minutes to load. Please be sure to allow the operation to fully complete, and do not cancel the operation or leave the page during processing. If it takes longer than 6 minutes, or you receive an error, please open a support ticket.
WHODrug Uploads
WHODrug provides customers a compressed zip file that contains both TXT or CSV variants of the dictionaries and other supplemental assets.
ClinSpark expects the files that come from the TXT variants. It will not accept the CSV files.
Supplementary files may also be in their own zip directories.
The actual dictionary files will likely be those identified by file name not containing text such as additional features.
The following example highlights the dictionary files that should be uploaded to ClinSpark.
ClinSpark will ignore the presence of any non .txt files during upload. It is not necessary to extract the .txt files from the licensed WHODrug zip, to create a new zip file, for the purpose of upload.
For WHODrug dictionaries, the upload process expects the following files for B3:
BNA.txt
CCODE.txt
DD.txt
DDA.txt
DDSOURCE.txt
INA.txt
ING.txt
MAN.txt
VERSION.txt