**Part 3**

**Clinical Applications** 

90 Medical Informatics

Zhang, S.Q.; Zhou, X.; Wang, H.; Suffredini, A.; Gonzales, D.; Ching, W.K.; Ng, M. & Wong

Research, 7, pp. 222-231.

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**5** 

*Brazil* 

**Using Brazilian Digital TV to** 

 and Vicente Ferreira De Lucena Jr. *Federal University of Amazonas, UFAM,* 

**Integrate Health Care Services** 

Vandermi Silva, Ricardo Erikson Veras De Sena Rosa

**Embedded in Medical Commercial Devices** 

The Digital TV (DTV) System is getting a stimulus within industry and in Brazil that stimulus is based on the belief that this new system will be successful. Several proposals for extending the potential of interactivity, for providing innovative services are available today. In this context, health care is a concept being studied. The health care concept is relative to care about health, in preventing diseases, quality of life and with applications to hospitals, elderly care centres and so on. Integrating health care technology with home devices is a new trend. Thus this chapter shows how the software programmer can

Our solution is a software platform based on the home gateway, which is in charge of all medical devices interconnecting with the DTV. As proof of the concept, we will build two implementation scenarios. One for measuring heart beat frequency and the other for measuring blood pressure. All the procedures related to the integration are detailed. We believe this work will be useful in this new field, bringing alternative ways for using

The chapter is divided into sections containing foundations, the DTV architecture of health care, construction on a prototype of health care and tests and results, to present the Brazilian standard for digital TV applications and the concepts of health. An overview of the integrated system for medical devices in the architecture section will show an architecture based on filters through all the details and technologies used. In the section on building the prototype we will present how to configure a development environment and how to implement a simple example using the Java programming language and the language Lua. Finally, in the tests and results section illustrations of a system running on a TV will be

The technology improvements in wireless communications and the increasing usage of commercial medical devices to monitor patients have contributed to the development of

integrating devices and sensors with the architecture based in filters presented here.

common devices to provide quality of life to the home user.

presented with the Brazilian digital TV standard installed.

**1. Introduction** 

**1.1 Foundations** 
