A Home Care Prototype Based On The Brazilian Digital Tv For a Health Management System
Abstract: Systems based on Information and Communication Technology have been designed to meet needs related to the management of processes involved in home care activities. However, most products on the market today are expensive and there is a great need of low-cost products, accessible to all people in disadvantage (Classes D and E). This paper presents the Diga-Saúde, a low-cost prototype that provides home care services through a main user Digital TV Interactive interface. It takes advantage of the popularity scheduled for the Brazilian Digital TV. The Diga-Saúde has been used on the LARIISA project, a governance decision-making support model for public health systems centered on the family. To connect LARIISA and the Diga-Saúde, we use LISA LARIISA Integration System a highly expansible system that aims at facilitating the inclusion and exclusion of context providers, even if they have not originally been conceived for the LARIISA interface.