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S U R G I C A L
V I D E O
images and video from all cameras and video
sources, the C-arm, radiologic equipment and
various navigation systems. This was important to us because, although MICS was the
driver, the spine, general and robotics surgery
teams all required seamless integration as
well.
Insist on HD everything
The most important piece of advice I can give
you is this: Make sure absolutely everything
will be HD. If even one component or connection is standard definition, it will have a significantly deleterious effect on the video quality.
We learned this the hard way at my old hospital, when our IT department found the vendor had given us a standard-definition broadcasting hub. This meant that video quality was
degraded, and DVDs looked dark and grainy. It
really is a stark difference.
What did we do? We went right to the manufacturer, said, "You sold us on the premise
this would be HD, but you're using a standard
def hub." Then we took the price of the hub
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