Utilizing mobile computing in the Wishard Memorial Hospital ambulatory service
Stuart Duncan Morton, Omran Bukhres · 1997
Advances in cellular technology have permitted portable computers to communicate with existing static networks. Current transaction mechanisms must be adjusted to accommodate for a mobile host (MH), which can be "disconnected" from the network for long periods of time. In this paper, an architecture for the Wishard Memorial Hospital Ambulatory Service of Indianapolis, Indiana is described. The architecture is based on current mobile models, but with the addition of a base station agent (BSA) which acts as an intermediary for the disconnected MH. The BSA is responsible for the following: commitment of the mobile transaction, storing of transaction results in the mailbox, and recovery. This architecture takes advantage of the existing ambulatory environment by adding a mobile computer that submits transactions to the Indianapolis Network for Patient Care and Research (INPCR), which utilizes the distributed medical database of the Regenstrief Medical Record System (RMRS). Adding a mobile ...