Re: HP Software

[KENW_at_EHS@CCMAIL.UCSF.EDU]

At the University of California, San Francisco, we too could not find HP 
software that provided all the "bells and whistles" necessary for our Rad Safety
program. Instead, we have developed our own "in-house" program currently using 
dBase IV.  Our program tracks users, sources, inventory, dosimetry etc. for both
our research and clinical groups. We are expanding the programming so that 
certain facets of the program can be accessible to our laboratories (remote 
access, different computer platforms etc.)  The program was demostrated to our 
State Inspectors during a routine Audit.  Much to our delight, they were pleased
with the ease we could retrieve data, especially for dosimetry.

We tend to agree with others who have posted that "home grown" programming may 
be the best way to customize your data.

Ken Wu
Environmental Health and Safety
UCSF
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Subject: HP Software
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at INTERNET
Date:    01/31/94 02:58 PM


After years of creating many separate programs to deal with our various 
databases, we're looking for a program to create a centralized database. 
Ideally this program would pull together our inventory records, worker 
training records, x-ray machine inventory, principal investigator records, 
personnel dosimetry records, etc.  I imagine you get the idea.  We've looked 
at two commercially available programs: CHAMMPS and Health Physics Assistant. 
HPA is available from On-Site Systems; I think it's a fairly new product. 
Have any of you had any experience with HPA?  Any other suggestions for com- 
mercial software that will do what we want?
     
Sue Dupre/Health Physicist/Princeton University