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1 1 9 J U N E 2 0 1 4 | O U T P AT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E D I G I T A L O R We asked 55 surgical facility leaders to cite their greatest challenge when it comes to surgical video and image capture. • Nearly half (49.1%) listed routing — getting different components to "communi- cate" with each other. "I wish we could transfer to EMR with less steps," says a hospital manager. • For 29.1%, the top challenge was the quality of the native image. • Others selected "storage" (14.5%) and "putting the video that we capture to good use" (7.3%). "It can be difficult to navigate the image from one screen to another and to return to where you want to be," says a hospital manager. "No internal storage on our camera box," says one respondent. "Unreliable printers and technology- impaired nurses," says another. It's quite a chore for Karla Schiever, RN, CNOR, RNFA, ONC, clinical manager at the Missoula (Mont.) Bone and Joint Surgery Center, to send still images and video clips to her PACS. "To route images, we have to unplug our wireless system that shares an IP address so we can send pics to PACS," she says. "We still have to 'power down' at times. We would like the PACS system to transfer easily to a tablet for bedside analysis." Image-capture devices let you download stills and video to iPads, DVDs and thumb drives, but many facilities are still getting by with workarounds. "We print off the pictures and I scan them and place them on a jump drive, which I send to the surgeon so he can download the pics that he wants for the record," says Linda Ritter, RN, ICP, OR manager at the Wilson Medical Center in Neodesha, Kan. "It has been a challenge to deal with all the different systems in other facilities and their different encryption programs," says June Waiz, RN, MBA, director of surgical services at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Ky. "I wish we could have all rooms with integrated systems and space for a control room with routing capabili- ty." — Dan O'Connor READER CHALLENGES 'No Internal Storage on Our Camera Box' OSE_1406_part2_Layout 1 6/13/14 11:42 AM Page 119