New updates of online search functionality for the Medicinal Product Register

30.11.2017.

The Medicinal Product Register of Latvia is an online database including detailed information regarding medicinal products authorised in Latvia and in Europe via the centralised procedure, as well as medicinal products authorised in other countries, and distributed in Latvia. The database is maintained by the State Agency of Medicines (SAM) and is regularly updated with additional functionalities to allow healthcare professionals and other users to search the database more easily and gain access to information more quickly.

The Register includes an online search form. SAM informs about a new parameter added to the advanced search form – “Disease group (by ATC)” that allows searching for medicines intended for treatment of a particular group of diseases. For example, when the user starts to type “respiratory…” in the search field the Register will offer to choose one of the disease groups containing this word and by entering the full name the user will be provided with a long list of medicines intended for treatment of diseases affecting the respiratory tract.

In addition, new functionalities have been added to both of the online search forms (simplified and advanced) – a new checkbox has been added that allows filtering medicines “with known prices”. Since the Register contains all of the authorised medicines, including medicines not being distributed in Latvia for various reasons and therefore not having set maximum acceptable pharmacy price, the new parameter will allow users to conduct a more purposeful search.

Furthermore, now the Medicinal Product Register includes the option to sort the selected list of medicines according to the maximum acceptable pharmacy price and availability. For example, you can order the list of selected medicines starting with the medicines having the lowest price and continuing in an ascending order.

In addition to these improvements, the performance speed of the Medicinal Product Register of Latvia has also been increased. We invite you to test this by visiting the Medicinal Product Register of Latvia.

By improving the functionalities of the Medicinal Product Register of Latvia, the State Agency of Medicines wishes to help healthcare professionals in their daily work when searching for information regarding medicines and prescribing optimal therapy for patients. All other interested parties are also invited to search for medicinal products in the Medicinal Product Register of Latvia, check the highest acceptable pharmacy price, look at alternative medicines, as well as read the package leaflets of medicines.

The State Agency of Medicines reminds you that unreasonable use of medicines is harmful to your health; you should always read the package leaflet before using medicines and consult with your doctor or pharmacist regarding use of medicines.