Hi folks,
Anyone care to respond to Clem's interest in collaborating on a
vendor prototype of PSI (see his note below)?
Cheers,
- Ira McDonald
High North Inc
-----Original Message-----
From: Clem McDonald [mailto:cmcdonald@regenstrief.org]
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:28 AM
To: McDonald, Ira
Subject: Re: PS> RE: PWG-ANNOUNCE> Print Services Web Page
wow, that could be just what the doctor ordered.
Is there any way to get info on who has these prototypes and how we might
be able to get involved. We are working to get federal funding for the
second phase of a city wide (indianapolis) linkage of all of the major
hospitals. want to be able to request clinical reports via a cellular
phone and send the request via cellular to the network and have hte reports
print out near the provider.
But will need more detaila about the implementation and how it works with
blue tooth to sell this. We would be a good demo site.
Would love to be ableto contact the folks who are working on prtotypes and
understand the context.
Does bluetooth sitting on a printer (or the printers internet port) the
ability to tell a near by device the internet address of the printer. If so
that would be perfect (maybe)
Will follow up on the documents you have specified.
"McDonald, Ira" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Actually, PSI is what you want. Several vendors have working PSI
> prototypes. Products can be expected in the quite near future.
>
> PSI itself does not do discovery.
>
> But PSI specifies (in some detail) how to do device discovery
> by wireless (BlueTooth), by SSDP (part of Microsoft's UPnP),
> by SLPv2 (RFC 2608), by LDAPv3 (RFC 2251), by DNS-SD (RFC 2782),
> or by UDDI (Web Services) in the "PSI Developers Guide" in
> section 6 'Print Service Discovery and Deployment'.
>
> ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ps/psi-devl-latest.pdf
> (most recently v0.95a 13 January 2003)
>
> PSI is intended to be (relatively) lightweight. It is a series
> of WSDL (Web Services Definition Language) SOAP (Simple Object
> Access Protocol) operations, using the attributes defined in the
> common XML schema of the IEEE/ISTO PWG Semantic Model.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
> - Ira McDonald, contributing PSI editor
> High North Inc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clem McDonald [mailto:cmcdonald@regenstrief.org]
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 4:18 PM
> To: imcdonald@sharplabs.com
> Subject: Re: PS> RE: PWG-ANNOUNCE> Print Services Web Page
>
> I have just discovered the PSI working group activity. We have
> developed a network that includes all of the major hospitals in
> Indianapolis and captures in a secure way clinical information from all
> of these institutions. We are working on ways to provide physician
> access to the data they can properly see, via a wireless PDA (or cell
> phone) using technology like the Black Berry.
>
> For a smallish prespecified list of patients , this system will work
> very well because the cellular system can push the data to the PDA. The
> physician will face different issues when he/she wants to look at a
> broad spectrum of information about a patient that had not been
> pre-defined. It will likely be slow to load (pull) information on
> demand about a specific pattient. Furthermore ,even for patients whose
> data has been pushed to the PDA- some kinds of informatio (E.g EKG
> tracings and Chest xrays) will not fit very well, and in many cases the
> physciain would rather review the informaiton on paper. Hence the need
> for a printer connection. I read the plan for PSI written (I think in
> 2000). The diagram showing acellular phone or cellular connected PDA
> sending a URL to a network for printing is exactly what we need. I
> gather that PSI is just being proposed so there is not likely to be any
> way for us to take advantage of it.
>
> However we don't need the full boat. What we would love to have , would
> be for a PDA/cellular to be able to discover the Internet address (or
> URL) of the printer near by. (Ideally this would be by probing it
> through infrared or blue tooth but doubt that is feasible), and then
> send a URL from the network to it.
>
> Do you know of any implementation of the capabilty that would allow
> discovery of printer locations and then directing something accross a
> wider area network to that printer. ( Lots of issues and problemS)
>
> Would love to explore anything that was out there that was lightweight
>
> Many thanks
>
> --
> Director, Regenstrief Institute
> Regenstrief Professor of Medical Informatics
> Distinguished Professor of Medicine
> Indiana University School of Medicine
> 1050 Wishard Blvd RG5
> Indianapolis IN 46202-2872
> Phone: 317/630-7070
> Fax: 317/630-6962
> URL: www.regenstrief.org
-- Director, Regenstrief Institute Regenstrief Professor of Medical Informatics Distinguished Professor of Medicine Indiana University School of Medicine 1050 Wishard Blvd RG5 Indianapolis IN 46202-2872 Phone: 317/630-7070 Fax: 317/630-6962 URL: www.regenstrief.org
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