How Medical Grade Computers Are Used in Emergency Rooms
August 4, 2022
In the past we discussed the uses for computers in a medical healthcare facility or hospital. While we provided some solid guidelines, we didn’t address the various departments, their specialties, and unique requirements. Here we’ll be covering one of them ﹘ the emergency department or emergency…
Medical Computers: Understanding What is Required in a Hospital Setting
May 16, 2020
On paper, medical computers are the perfect fit for the medical space. “Medical” is in the name, after all. Of course, there’s more to medical-grade hardware than some simple naming and branding. Optimized to function in the hospital setting, these devices, whether they be manufactured in the form…
A Few Problems Medical Professionals Face with EHR Compatibility
January 30, 2020
According to HealthIt, more than 95% of hospitals and office-based physicians have started utilizing EHR software. It’s clear use of EHR software has become the majority standard in a decade. Medical professionals stick by this method of health IT and information monitoring because it reduces…
What Tech is Needed for Effective Clinical Collaboration Systems?
January 7, 2020
Doctors, nurses, and health professionals are like monoliths of information and experience when it comes to how the human body functions and heals. As impressive as these meticulously trained healers can be and despite technological advances in EHRs and medical computers, they’re still only human.…
Breaking Down the ROI of Medical Computers
November 19, 2018
It can be difficult for an IT department in any industry to convince a CFO to write a bigger check for computer hardware. The fact remains that medical grade computers are going to be more expensive than a commercial grade computer. But it is also important to understand that IT hardware is, at a…
Improve Interoperability with the Right Medical Computers
September 25, 2018
Every organization consists of different departments working in sync together to move forward. This is doubly true with healthcare organizations such as hospitals, which measure success in lives saved and patients healed rather than profit and loss. A given hospital’s medical-grade computers need…
4 Ways Workstations on Wheels Improve Hospital Care
July 31, 2018
They're called workstations on wheels, or WOWs: mobile medical carts, either powered or non-powered, that allow nurses and other personnel to move from bedside to bedside with medical computer systems in tow. They’re rapidly becoming a staple in healthcare operations of all varieties, part of a…
Understanding How Medical Computers Enhance EMR Capability
June 6, 2018
Technology in hospitals has advanced greatly towards automation and electronic document storage to improve the lives of patients and facilitate the jobs of medical professionals. As of 2015 96% of all non-federal acute care hospitals had adopted basic EMR software. Even in rural areas adoption was…
3 Ways to Automate Tedious Paper Processes in Hospitals
May 21, 2018
Nurses and doctors often voice the desire to go paperless. A recent report from International Data Corporation shows that about 40 percent of healthcare institutions have implemented paper reduction processes to operate a little greener. Although these efforts have improved a hospital's…
3 Ways Medical Grade Computers Make Surgery Safer
April 27, 2018
It's clear that surgical mistakes—however minor they may be—are still prevalent on surgical tables and still cause significant health problems. You can easily get plenty of statistics online to verify some frequencies of surgical accidents. From problems of communication and preparation, to…
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