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- First Stage Provides ASP Service for Pharmaceutical Product Information -
Tokyo, Feb. 6, 2005 -- Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd. (Representative Executive Officer and Chief Executive Officer: Takeo Ogawa, Head Office: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo) has announced the launch of a medical ASP service (*1) for health care faciliti es aimed at improving the quality of medical care and enhancing the efficiency of hospital management.
The new service, available from February 1, will initially provide pharmaceutical product information to healthcare facilities via an ASP utilizing a comprehensive database of new generation pharmaceutical products created by Yuyama Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (President: Hiroyuki Yuyama, Head Office: Toyonaka, Osaka).
The service provides information on more than 28,000 of the latest pharmaceutical products, raising the quality and efficiency of the work of medical practitioners and pharmacists through an extensive range of functions such as package insert search, drug interaction check, and disease name-related checks. Further, it is anticipated that the service will result in improved patient services, since it is possible to search generic drugs (*2) for patients wishing to obtain such products.
Customers can begin utilizing the service immediately if they have an Internet connection environment and a PC by simply paying a monthly fee, with no initial monetary investment required. SSL (Secure Socket Layer) communications enable the service to be accessed securely via a mobile PC even when away from the workplace or visiting patients at home. The service is available to clinics, general practitioners, and other healthcare professionals, on either a single-user (monthly fee inclusive of tax: 10,395 yen) or multiple-user basis.
The ASP-based service also allows the user to switch client and server type applications to a centralized ASP model easily and inexpensively, thus facilitating the introduction of the medical ASP service through cooperation with providers of medical information services.
The advantages of an ASP-based service are as follows:
2. Easy service and maintenance of server and PC environment, since application operates through server installed in data center
3. Reduced risk of information leakage, since all important application data stored in server
In the future, collaboration is planned with Vantage Consulting Inc. (Representative Director: Makoto Narumo, Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo) that will utilize this ASP-based service in order to expand successive service categories to include, for example, medical consultation reservations, accounting systems, and itemized statement systems.
HitachiSoft anticipates the granting of 100 licenses for this service by the end of fiscal year 2006.
* 1. ASP is an abbreviation for Application Service Provider, a service that provides application programs through an Internet connection.
* 2. After the license for drugs first sold in Japan (new drugs), known as "originator drugs", has expired, drugs known as "generic drugs" may be sold after being approved by the MHLW. These have the same active ingredients and the same effects as new or originator drugs, but are cheaper.
The comprehensive database of new generation pharmaceutical products contains a vast amount of data, offering generic drug search function and check functions that also serve to support diagnosis and treatment.
- Databases Included
・ Interaction database
・ Food and drink interaction database
・ Attached document database
・ Summary instructions for use database
・ Tablet differentiation database
・ Disease name contraindication database
・ OTC drug interaction database
・ Usual dosage database
・ Summary attached document database
・ Pharmaceutical product image database
・ Injected medicine incompatibility database
・ Adverse reaction database
・ Long-term administration database
・ Pregnant and lactating women database
・ Instructions for use database
・ Calorie/ion equivalence database
・ Indications database
・ Adverse reaction symptoms database
- Research Functions
| Interaction | From drug group selected, checks combination that produces interaction |
| Similar medicinal properties | From drug group selected, checks similar groups by number of digits of specified valid YJ code |
| Long-term administration | From drug group selected, checks whether possible to administer for specified number of days |
| Usual dosage | Checks appropriateness of administering selected drug and dosage |
| Incompatibility | From drug group selected, checks combination that produces change upon mixing, and displays information on change as time series data |
| Disease name | Checks combination of indications and contraindications with specified drug group and disease name group |
- Cost: 9,900 yen per month (10,395 yen including tax) per user
- Further information and a description of the HitachiSoft medical ASP service can be
* The official name of HitachiSoft is Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd.
* All other company or product names are referred to by the company brand name or registered trademark.
Contact:
Mr. Toru Takehashi or Ms. Miki Takano
Corporate Communications,
Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd.
Tel: +81-3-5780-6450
Fax: +81-3-5780-6455
e-mail: press@hitachisoft.jp
