A tool for browsing the Australian Medicines Terminology (AMT), using data from an instance of Medserve.

• Provides a full-text search facility for locating medicine concepts within AMT.
• Supports searching of CTPP, TPP, TPUU, TP, MPP, MPUU, MP and substance concepts. Concept types are displayed alongside search results.
• Selecting a concept renders an object diagram, showing its details along with its relationship to other concepts, in a manner which is faithful to the AMT Product Model.
• Relationship types are rendered differently depending on whether they have inheritance, association or aggregation semantics.
• ARTG IDs are shown against applicable concepts, along with a link to the relevant page on the TGA web site.
• Re-focus on a related concept by clicking its SCT ID.
• Copy an SCT ID or preferred term to the clipboard by clicking the clipboard icon adjacent.
• Where child concepts or related packages are shown in large numbers, these are grouped with a link to the full listing.
• The AMT Product Model view can be panned around by clicking and dragging, using scroll wheels or a trackpad. The view can be re-centred by double-clicking.
• Control visibility of each type of concept. Settings are remembered once set.
• Perform an advanced search, using the following fields:
  • Contains text - returns concepts which contain the supplied text within the preferred term.
  • Ingredient - returns concepts which have ingredients that match the supplied concept ID or text.
  • Package item - returns packages (MPP, TPP or CTPP) that contain concepts which match the supplied MPUU or TPUU concept or text.
  • Form - returns concepts which have a form which matches the supplied text (e.g. tablet).
  • Container - returns concepts which have a container which matches the supplied text (e.g. bottle).
  • Brand - returns concepts which have a brand (TP) which matches the supplied text (e.g. Voltaren).
  • PBS code - returns concepts which are mapped to a PBS item code.
  • ARTG ID - returns concepts which are mapped to a product listed on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods.
  • Parent - Returns concepts which are direct descendants of concepts that match the supplied text or concept ID.
  • Ancestor - Returns concepts which are descendants of concepts that match the supplied text or concept ID.
  • Last modified - Returns concepts which have a last modified date within the specified range.
  • Type - Narrow the search to only include a subset of concept types, i.e. CTPP, TPP, TPUU, MPP, MPUU or MP.
  • Status - Narrow the search to include only concepts with one of the selected statuses, i.e. Active, Inactive or Entered in Error.
• Download the results of an advanced search in TSV (tab-separated values) format.
• Can be configured to point to any Medserve instance, see Configuration.
• Can be configured to report errors to Sentry.

Polecat only has two development dependencies:

• Node.js
• Yarn

yarn start

yarn test

Storybook is an environment for developing and testing the components within Polecat in isolation from one another.

yarn storybook

There are a set of files in the test directory that serve as fixtures for the unit tests and stories. These were taken from actual responses from Medserve, and can be refreshed by using the following command:

yarn update-test-files

yarn lint

This will output a set of production-optimised static files in the build directory.

yarn build

This will package the build into a Docker image, ready for deployment.

yarn dockerize

This script requires you to set the DOCKER_IMAGE environment variable, which controls the name which is used to tag the image.

Polecat is configured using the following environment variables, which can be passed using the environment key within a Docker Compose file:

• POLECAT_FHIR_SERVER: the FHIR endpoint of the Medserve instance.
• POLECAT_VERSION: the version of the application, which is used when reporting to Sentry. This is automatically set during the build (to the Git SHA), so does not
• POLECAT_SENTRY_DSN: the string used to identify the application to Sentry.
• POLECAT_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_TRACKING_ID: tracking ID for sending analytics data to a Google Analytics account.

version: "3"

services:
  polecat:
    image: johngrimes/polecat
    ports:
      - "80:80"
    environment:
      POLECAT_FHIR_SERVER: https://medserve.online/fhir
      POLECAT_SENTRY_DSN: https://[email protected]/XXXXXX
      POLECAT_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_TRACKING_ID: UA-XXXXXXXXX-X

• Polecat must be served via HTTPS. This is because it relies on APIs within the browser which are not enabled in insecure contexts.
• Polecat must communicate to Medserve via HTTPS. This is because browser security policy will not allow a secure page to make requests to a server over plain HTTP.
• Polecat currently only supports deployment at the server root. For example, https://browse.medserve.online would be ok, while https://medserve.online/browse would not be supported.

Polecat targets compatibility with the latest release version of the following browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Safari
• Microsoft Edge

In addition to this, we also target compatibility with Mozilla Firefox 45.0esr.