IoT in Action: Building a Modern Healthcare Application Multi-Device Solutions using Beacons and Bluetooth LE Devices David Intersimone - Embarcadero Technologies Digital devices are proliferating inside medical offices and hospitals and Bluetooth devices can easily capture biometric information. These devices, that are part of the Internet of Things (IoT) landscape, are providing higher levels of patient monitoring, medical office productivity and patient information management and will transform the everyday experience of visiting a doctor’s office. David I shows you how to use the NEW RAD Studio XE8 support for Proximity Beacons and Enterprise Mobility Services Push Notifications to build a modern healthcare application solution for a hospital or doctor’s office.

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IoT in Action:
Building a Modern Healthcare
Application

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Speaker
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Agenda
• RAD Studio XE8
• Healthcare & Digital Technology
• Nurses Station Scenario
• XE8 Technologies Used
• Demo in Action
• Summary and Q&A
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RAD Studio XE8

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What is RAD Studio?
The Connected App Platform for
Windows and Beyond
RAD development for Windows, Mac,
iOS, and Android and IoT
Industrial strength. Business ready

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RAD Studio XE8: Enterprise Ready
Build industrial strength and business ready solutions
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RAD Studio XE8: Connected
Connect native client
platforms, mobile extensions,
smart devices, cloud services,
Enterprise and embedded
data.
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RAD Studio XE8: MultiDevice
Deliver single-source
user interfaces across
multiple form factors
with FireUI
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RAD Studio XE8: IoT Ready
Extend apps with new Internet
of Things capabilities:
proximity awareness, devices,
and sensor data collection
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RAD Studio XE8: EMS MiddleWare
Access and sync enterprise
data and publish custom
REST APIs with turn-key
Enterprise Mobility Services
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RAD Studio XE8: For Developers
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Healthcare & Digital
Technology

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Healthcare Technologies
• Health IT
– Electronic Medical Records
– Big Data
– Cloud Computing
• Devices
– Smartphones, Tablets, PCs
– Beacons
– Sensors

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Nurses Station
Scenario

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Nurses Station
• Common medical office scenario using IoT functionality in RAD Studio XE8.
• Custom EMS endpoints for logging in, receiving push notifications, querying
recorded vitals and more.
• Patient check-in via smartphone application upon arrival, notified via EMS push
notification when the nurse is ready.
• Upon the patient check-in, nurse notified via EMS push notification.
• Beacons for proximity awareness
– As patient enters waiting room
– Patient arrives at nurses station
• Nurse’s tablet app uses BluetoothLE devices to gather patient vitals.
• Vital recordings are stored in EMS using an InterBase database.
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The Nurses Station Architecture
• Apps integration via EMS
– FireMonkey, mobile, VCL
– Push notifications, AppAnalytics
• Internet of Things
– Device integration via BluetoothLE
• Heart Rate Monitor
• Weight Scale
– Beacons
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Beacon Technical Details
• Beacon #1: Located in the waiting room.
– Patient walks near beacon with smartphone app running
– App detects the beacon and displays a message telling the patient that they can
now check-in.
– A login screen is shown where the patient can login to his medical account
using existing EMS credentials.
– Nurse receives a push notification via EMS on her tablet saying that the patient
is ready to be seen.
– Nurse confirms the user, and patient receives a push notification on the phone
saying the nurse is ready.
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Beacon Technical Details
• Beacon #2: Located in room with heartrate monitor and
scale
– Detects the user and updates the nurses tablet app with the
patient’s name
– Nurses tablet app allows her to verify the patient name and
connect to BluetoothLE heartrate monitor and scale.
– Patient recordings are stored in an InterBase database.
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Nurse’s Station: Patient App
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Welcome Patient Login Patient Beacon Check-In

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Nurses Station: Nurse App
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GetData StoredData

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EMS Server
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Doctor’s Station: Pharmacy App ???
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Nurses Station:
Technologies Used

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Nurses Station – XE8 Technologies Used
• FireUI: multi-device UI for Windows, OS X, iOS, Android
• VCL for Windows
• FireDAC database access
• TBeacon
• TBluetoothLE
• Enterprise Mobility Services (EMS) Server
– User, Device and Data management
– Remote Push Notifications – APNS and GCM
• TAppAnalytics
• InterBase XE7 database server
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Nurses Station – Devices Used
• Beacons
– Nordic Semiconductor Beacon (nRF51822)
– Gimbal Beacon – configured as iBeacon
• BluetoothLE
– Polar H7 Chest Strap Heartrate Monitor
– Wahoo Fitness Scale
• Smartphones and Tablets
– iPhone 6 running iOS 8.3
– Samsung Galaxy S4
– iPad Air2 running iOS 8.3
– Nexus 7 201x edition?
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Nurses Station:
Data Model, EMS Server,
Project/Source Code

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Project Directory
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“NURSESDB.IB” InterBase Data Model
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EMS Server – Setup Wizard
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EMS Server – Start / Add Users
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AppAnalytics
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BluetoothLE and Beacon
Components Demos
by Jim McKeeth

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EMS Server and EMS Push
Demos by Al Mannarino

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Nurses Station:
Demo in Action

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RAD Studio XE8:
Ready for You

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RAD Studio XE8
Versions:
• Starter
– Delphi and C++Builder
• Professional
• Enterprise
• Ultimate
• Architect
Includes:
• C++Builder
• Delphi
• HTML5 Builder
• InterBase XE7
• A rich set of third party
tools

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Primary Benefits of RAD Studio XE8
The best tool for
multi-device
development for
Windows, OS X,
iOS, Android
The Connected App Platform for Windows and Beyond
Bluetooth, App
Tethering, Beacons
for the Internet of
Things
Turn-key services:
AppAnalytics and
Enterprise Mobility
Services

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Questions?

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More (Online) Information

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Want to Dive Deeper? Follow the Skill Sprints!
• 1 topic, 20 minute deep dive with Q&A
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Join the (New) Embarcadero Community
http://community.embarcadero.com
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Additional Resources
• http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE8/en/Setti
ng_Up_the_Messaging_Service
• http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE8/en/EMS
_Push_Notifications
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Additional Resources
• iBeacon - https://developer.apple.com/ibeacon/
• AltBeacon - http://altbeacon.org/
• Apple Push Notification Service (APNS) -
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/NetworkingI
nternet/Conceptual/RemoteNotificationsPG/Chapters/ApplePushSer
vice.html
• Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) -
https://developer.android.com/google/gcm/index.html
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Beacons
• https://gimbal.com/doc/ios_proximity_ibeacon_quickstart.
html
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Additional Resources
• BluetoothLE GATT -
https://developer.bluetooth.org/TechnologyOverview/Pages/GATT.as
px
• GATT Specifications -
https://developer.bluetooth.org/gatt/Pages/GATT-Specification-
Documents.aspx
• Bluetooth Smart and Smart Ready -
http://www.bluetooth.com/Pages/Bluetooth-Smart-Devices-List.aspx
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Additional Resources
• mHealth - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHealth
• Why So Many New Tech Companies Are Getting into Health Care -
https://hbr.org/2014/12/why-so-many-tech-companies-are-getting-into-health-care
• The Medical Technologies That Are Changing Health Care -
http://www.hhnmag.com/display/HHN-news-
article.dhtml?dcrPath=/templatedata/HF_Common/NewsArticle/data/HHN/Magazine/2015/
Apr/cover-medical-technology
• Technology Made Health Care Expensive. Can It Now Control Costs? -
http://recode.net/2014/04/28/technology-made-health-care-expensive-can-it-now-control-
costs/
• We Need a Moore’s Law for Medicine -
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/518871/we-need-a-moores-law-for-medicine/
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