Medical Monitors For the Modern Age

As a health care professional, you are aware that medical monitors are the heart of virtually all patient procedures. In the past, there were numerous types of medical monitors, each with their own specific function.

Today's DICOM Monitor can measure many parameters at once, and can also be used to view digital medical images as well. While such cutting-edge technology has traditionally been out of reach for all but the largest medical facilities, today a DICOM viewer with monitoring capabilities can be purchased at prices starting under $5000.

Time-Tested and Familiar Technology

Medical monitors from DICOM are based on the same technology that underlies the workings of your standard LCD computer monitor that you use at home. The difference is that a DICOM monitor offers much higher resolution; they are also engineered with redundant systems in the event of power failure or other error, so that a patient is not placed in danger unnecessarily.

DICOM viewers also extend the function and capability of medical monitors. In addition to allowing doctors and nurses to keep track of patients' BP, respiration and so forth, a DICOM monitor can be used to examine digitized images taken with MRI, CT, EEG or x-rays at crystal-clear resolutions. The DICOM web viewer enables any authorized staff member to view such images over the local area network as well as the World Wide Web; DICOM viewers mean that medical professionals can now consult and collaborate with colleagues at remote locations in real time.

Affordability

Cutting-edge technology such as digital, multi-function medical monitors have traditionally been very expensive. In 1992, the radiology department at the Ohio State University Medical Center converted their imaging systems to digital at a cost of over a quarter-million dollars – which nonetheless has paid for itself four times over. In addition, OHUMC personnel estimate that the use of such digital equipment has saved approximately 7000 of physician work-hours in terms of the time between initial diagnosis and dictation of patient records – a task that has been reduced to an average time of three hours.

Today, the same forces that have driven down the cost of personal computers have affected the price of DICOM monitors as well. DICOM web viewers and medical monitors are manufactured by the top names in health care technology, all of whom provide reliable technical support.

Jonathon Blocker writes about medical monitors. With installations at over 450 imaging centers and hospitals; Dicom Solutions is one of the leading distributors in the medical imaging industry.