"It's like buying last year's new car. If you're buying a new car, you
want it to be new for as long as it can be new. The same thing goes for
state-of-the-art equipment."
Apple iPad tablet interface
Built into our system is an image management system that securely
routes still images, video and data to any network location, including
our PACS and EHRs. The system lets our physicians instantly transmit
any videos or still images taken during the cases over to an iPad, and
use those to create quick post-operative patient presentations, then e-
mail the post-operative reports. This feature really helps you move
your ORs to paperless interfacing with your patients. OSM
Ms. Ertel (pamela.ertel@readinghealth.org) is the administrative director of the
Reading Hospital SurgiCenter at Spring Ridge in Wyomissing, Pa. She is a member of the
Outpatient Surgery Magazine editorial board.
