IWBDC: interface WAP para base de dados clínica

Abstract

This article describes the development of a multi-platform interface model as an implementation of Client-Server infrastructures based in WAP (Wireless Access Protocol) protocol, to achieve communication between mobile and fixed terminals, and a system of clinical information. Elaborated in conjunction with the project, IWBDC –Interface WAP Para Base de Dados Clínica (WAP Interfacefor Clinical Database), under the actual context market of Mobile Internet As A Emergent Market, intends to be an interface to a database system through an mobile environment, such as WAP enabled devices and PDA’s, and also aiming to create the same structures in a fixed environment using HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) protocol. The supplied services for such infrastructures will have to be orient for visualization aspects of the information and system management tasks. The XML, XSL technology was employed for dynamic content creation and formatting, according to the access rights of different user profiles. Strict security and access control policy were implemented to ensure secure transmission of medical data through the Internet. The implemented model was designed to collaborate with existing clinical patient record systems and to be easily adjustable to different types of applications. Aspects of interface usability had also been matter of studyin the implementation fase, trying to conjugate the nature ofthe services of clinical information and the capacities of visualization and interaction of the different types of terminals.