Radiologists are the techies of medicine (along with radiation oncology and nuclear medicine I suppose). They have all the cool gadgets. In the morning, we have a teleconference between the multiple hospitals with large flat-screen monitors communicating between each site (not as neat as the picture shown above, but pretty cool nevertheless). The conference room is equipped with multiple projectors, and they have two IT people on site during the day to fix problems. In the reading rooms, residents look off three monitors at a time, dictating, scrolling through images, and pulling up patient history simultaneously. As a mild technology junkie myself, I think it's awesome.Image is shown under Fair Use, from Wikipedia, with the attribution: Courtesy of TANDBERG Corporation. This is a Tandberg T3 Telepresence high definition conference room.
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I'm glad to hear about people using multiple monitors. Having used a large monitor with a desktop and also multiple monitors, I know how much time it can save being able to look at multiple sources of information at once instead of having to flip back and forth between programs.
So far, all I've seen in hospital wards are 17" monitors with relatively low resolution, incapable of showing a lot of information.
Craig, you might enjoy the work of Edward Tufte. I really liked his book "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information". I think he'd be a fan of these larger displays - a lot of his ideas are about maximizing information density of displays (while making that information useful).
Thank you for your comment! It always surprised me how hospitals could be working with such old technology (I've found computer terminals with Windows 95). Thanks for the book recommendation, I'll definitely look into it.
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