Title :
Interface for Accessing Pharmacological Information
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Archit., Malaga Univ., Malaga
Abstract :
Pharmacological therapy is an increasingly complex medical activity. Databases with information on drug-drug interactions, side-effects etc. would complement traditional electronic patient journal systems and provide decision support for pharmacological therapy. To facilitate the use of such databases, drug terminology is essential to allow communication with existing information systems. Well- specified software interfaces would encourage and simplify usage of drug databases. This paper reports a software interface for accessing drug information.
Keywords :
database management systems; decision support systems; drugs; medical information systems; complex medical activity; decision support; drug databases; drug information; drug terminology; electronic patient journal systems; pharmacological information; pharmacological therapy; software interfaces; Databases; Decision support systems; Drugs; Java; Libraries; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical treatment; Object oriented modeling; Terminology; Unified modeling language; Pharmacology; information systems; medical informatics;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2008. CBMS '08. 21st IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Jyvaskyla
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3165-6
DOI :
10.1109/CBMS.2008.110