CDS/ISIS no desenvolvimento de aplicações para acesso digital ao formulário nacional de medicamentos

Abstract

This work describes and presents a prototype of a textual database on CD-ROM for loading the National Form of Medicines (FNM). The FNM is an instrument to support drug prescription and therapeutic guidance used by physicians and other health professionals authorized to prescribe. The idea of ​​designing this database came about because the process of updating the FNM entails very high costs, as it is necessary to do it all over again, whenever a certain drug is updated. The database was designed using the UNESCO CDS/ISIS software (version 1.4 build 22 March 2002 better known as WINISIS), which is freely distributed in Mozambique by the company Pandora Box, Lda. This paper describes what CDS/ISIS is, how it works, compares it with other database design software and highlights its particularities and potential in the development of textual databases. It also describes the steps that led to the design of the prototype database for the FNM, the difficulties encountered and the successes achieved until the CD-ROM was recorded. This work also addresses the issue of making textual databases accessible via the Internet. On this subject, only the study of the various existing ways to access CDS/ISIS databases through the Internet was carried out, namely WWWISIS, JAVAISIS and ASP. The description of the work carried out is accompanied by a CD-ROM recorded with the prototype of the database. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)