Interface for Accessing Pharmacological Information

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.