MacPharmacy: A Relational Database Adjunt to a Hypermedia-Based Physician Workstation

MacPharmacy is a relational database built as an adjunct to RadOnc, a hypermedia-based physician workstation in the domain of radiation oncology. Conceived originally as a RadOnc module for chemotherapeutic agents, the MacPharmacy database contains information on a large selection of drugs which can be accessed by a variety of users. Information on generic and trade names, pharmacodynamics, indications, and dosage is linked to RadOnc disease descriptions and patient records which contain a clinical summary of the presentation, treatment and results. MacPharmacy's features include data table addition and updating and a customizable user interface that can be linked to other applications. Due to the scarcity of Macintosh-based pharmacy databases, MacPharmacy fills an information gap for clinically-oriented Macintosh users.