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or cart compatible with all of the camera systems your surgeons of
varying specialties use? "If you're making a minimum $70,000 investment for each operating room, it benefits the center to plan for longterm and other potential uses in the future," says Ms. Day, who also
recommends verifying the interoperability of any system you trial
with your electronic medical records system for transferring and storing images and video.
An HD-video-equipped OR can be
an effective marketing tool for attracting
physicians (especially younger, tech-adept
ones) and cases to your facility.
Don't forget the importance of plugging in. Check the number, type
and format of input jacks your chosen display monitor offers. "Ideally,
you're inputting through your integration system" on your boom or
other control unit, says Mr. Pinkney. But in the event that it goes
down, extra input jacks will let you connect your equipment directly.
"Any monitor should accommodate 1 or 2 digital (such as DVI or HDSDI) and 1 or 2 analog (such as RGB, VGA or S-video) inputs," says
Mr. Pinkney. While the analog inputs can serve any source devices
that haven't yet been replaced by digital versions, the resulting output
on the screen will be in standard definition, not HD.
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