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“Medical displays are like football linemen—you don’t notice them unless they do something wrong.” › David Derr, medical director of radiology informatics and assistant professor of musculoskeletal radiology, university of Mississippi Medical Center agnosis. The 3MP color display offered the good luminescence the hospital was looking for with its Diagnostic Luminance (DL) backlight technology. While color displays can lack the brightness of grayscale monitors, Derr says the 800 cd/m² luminance on the 3MP DL provides “unprecedented brightness and DICOMaccuracy over its entire lifetime.” The 3MP grayscale display, with a resolution of 1536x2048, offers diagnostic precision and workflow efficiency, he says. All three monitors feature remote calibration to ensure quality at all times. “We calibrate them when we set them up; then remotely and while being used,” Derr says. The hospital auto-calibrates using the sensors on the front of the displays and the MediCalu QAWeb softcopy calibration software from Barco. “We were not really looking for displays suitable for one type of study, we wanted reliability,” says Derr. “You don’t really need high-end monitors for cardiac MR and CT, but cheaper monitors start having problems like burn in and loss of screen resolution. The better the components are, the less likely that is to happen.” More to see As many facilities look for systems capable of displaying cardiac images from the spectrum of procedures, solutions run the gamut from color and grayscale monitors ideal for radiology, the OR and other subspecialty areas. Deploying a color display can bring an efficiency gain to departments by allowing users to shift from application to application without having to move from one workstation to another. CONSULTANTS & PROFESSIONALS A large multinational corporation has aggressive plans to build global manufacturing capacity for various medical devices. As first part of the initiative we are seeking dialogues with Consultants proficient in the field of Bio-design engineering, Researchers, Technologists, Regulatory/Clinical Specialists with relevant 'start-to-finish' project experience for the following device areas: MEDICAL DEVICE Multi-modality flexibility Allina Hospitals & Clinics is a not-for-profit family of hospitals, clinics and other care facilities with more than 22,500 employees, 5,000 physicians and 2,500 volunteers delivering healthcare and support services throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin. In 2006, the hospital system made the transition from grayscale to color with diagnostic displays primarily for the radiology, ICU, ER, and cardiology departments. According to Systems Administrator Bruce Facile, Allina chose NEC Display Solutions’ 21-inch MultiSync LCD2190UXi 2 MP color systems. The decision to switch to color came down to the requirements by the different modalities to display color. “We made the move from grayscale to color for the added information and flexibility—more and more modalities are using color in their imaging—MRI, ultrasound, 3D reconstruction—and it makes it more flexible for us to use displays suitable for cardiac imaging,” Facile says. “We like the image quality and the homogeneity of the brightness across the display, and of course the cost.” • Vascular Stent Technologies • Catheter Technologies • Guidewires • Guide Catheters • Pacemakers System • Heart Valves • ICDs • Large Joint Implants • Spinal Implants The above will be associated in the capacity of Consultant(s) and will have access to, and facilitate technology transfer to fulfil project objectives. Interested Persons/Groups with relevant experience in their field of expertise should write in confidence stating brief CV and contact number to: Ms. Sussan Benny at sussan.beny@gmail.com CardiovascularBusiness.com Cardiovascular Business 1 http://CardiovascularBusiness.com

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Cardiovascular Business - January/February 2008 Contents The Ticker: Quality Pays in Several Ways Cover Story: The Proof: Why Evidence-based Medicine Improves Cardiac Care Clinical Study Digest: Co-payments and Cath Labs Cardiac PET/CT Fills in Gaps Left by SPECT Tapping into IT to Improve the Office-Based Practice SPECT–Proving Its Value Cardiac Images in the EMR: Just a Click Away The Top 20 Ways to Market Your Cardiac CTA Practice The Big Picture: Medical Displays for Cardiac Images Statins Work But Pharmacoeconomic Caveats Abound Driving Data Protection: Opting for Storage On- or Offsite News & Views Calendar Reader’s Resource

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