Web services

As mentioned on the front page blog, we now have a neat custom way of automating access to web services.

This means for instance you can automate the following

• Access patient laboratory web results
• Look up drug data
• Look up patient handouts for diseases
• Look up disease data
• Look up zip codes
• Look up telephone numbers from web whitepages

Neat.

The annoying thing for me is my lab blocks FireFox. Hard to believe.

I definitely would like it to do search on

(1) rxlist (www.rxlist.com). - could that be packaged for everyone ?

(2) health canada drugs - http://search.hc-sc.gc.ca/cgi-bin/query?mss=dpd/english/active/simple

(3) fpnotebook.com - (in the search box). Search queries look like this http://fpnotebook.com/search.asp?QU=eczema&CT=d%3A%5Cusers%5Csmoses%5Cdb- all you do is change the red word to what you need.

multiple words - http://fpnotebook.com/search.asp?QU=Atopic+Dermatitis&CT=d%3A%5Cusers%5Csmoses%5Cdb

Q: would there be a way to auto-include the most popular web services ?

Yes, searches on the above is easy to do.

As for auto-including .. no, because the user has to install the chickenfoot script themselves.

I can write them .. but users have to install them.

Note: chickenfoot is not FireFox 2.0 Final compatible.

Make sure that you use the 22nd Sept 2006 release which is compatible.

<pre id="pre">go("http://search.hc-sc.gc.ca/cgi-bin/query?mss=dpd/english/active/simple")
pick("Active Ingredient")
enter("Search for:", "omeprazole")
click ("Search button")</pre><pre id="pre"></pre><pre id="pre">Is there a way to do this from Synapse ?</pre><pre id="pre"></pre><pre id="pre">I am doing this for a cma.ca website ... there is the problem of logging when when NOT logged in but then doing it a different way .. if already logged in.</pre><pre id="pre"></pre><pre id="pre"></pre>

Yes, that would be simple to execute under Synapse.

Not sure what you mean about logging ...

where are the webservices going to be put (In Synapse) ?

I'll probably do them tonight my time.

Where in Synapse are they going to go .. Rename the "DRUGS" Tab and call it WEB ?

Try beta-9

This is your script for drugsearch.html

drugname = find(/Drugname: ([\w\s]+)/).groups[1];
go("http://search.hc-sc.gc.ca/cgi-bin/query?mss=dpd/english/active/simple")
pick("Active Ingredient")
enter("Search for:", drugname)
click ("Search button")

In the consult editor, spot the "?" in the diagnoses and medications

** Access Error: Cannot open /M/synapse/www/cgi-bin/searchdrug.html
** Where: search-web-drug
** Near: write %www/cgi-bin/searchdrug.html out
browse http://127.0.0.1:8001/cgi-bin/searchdrug.html
** Press enter to quit...

Must be beta software!

Let me fix[]

Odd .. nothing wrong with the code.

Perhaps you don't have the cgi-bin directory??

Try beta-10 .. moving it out of cgi-bin

I think what I'll do is replace the "?" and replace them with a firefox logo if I can find one small enough!

I don't have a cgi-bin directory on this client.

It should have been created automatically .. I'll have to check in future for that.

I take it it's now working?

<h2>Search ...</h2>You need to write a chickenfoot script and trigger it on this page to run your custom searches. This also requires Firefox.

Code:
Disease: erectile dysfunction

works now.

beta-11

Adds a "?" near the phone for the patient details

This is my trigger script to look up the phone on the nz white pages

<pre id="pre">nameinit = find(/NameInitial: ([\w\s]+)/).groups[1];
town = find(/Town: ([\w\s]+)/).groups[1];
city = find(/City: ([\w\s]+)/).groups[1];

with(openTab('http://www.whitepages.co.nz/', true)) {

enter("Name",nameinit)
enter("Location",town)
pick(city)
click("Search")

}</pre>