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.

Loading Dictionaries

In ClinSpark the dictionaries can be loaded by a customer administrator user here:

WHODrug Uploads

Acceptable formats

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.

Files that are ignored

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.

Expected Files for B3

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