Open AccessHigh-Definition Television and Telemetry
Author(s) -
Ruth SoRelle
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/01.cir.98.6.492
Subject(s) - telemetry , agency (philosophy) , telecommunications , television station , commission , channel (broadcasting) , broadcasting (networking) , food and drug administration , administration (probate law) , medicine , medical emergency , law , computer security , computer science , sociology , political science , social science
In March 1998, WFAA-TV in Dallas became the first television station in the United States to venture into the future of digital broadcasting. But as the broadcast signal went into the airwaves, medical telemetry units on the 13th floor at nearby Webb Roberts Hospital at Baylor University Medical Center went blank.It was 24 hours before engineers at the television station and Baylor put 2 and 2 together to figure out that the heart monitors were on the same frequency as the station’s new signal. There was a good chance that theirs was not the only conflict. As a …
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