Product category:
Monitors and peripherals
News Release from: Planar Systems
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 14 January 2002
Customised flat-panel health-care
monitor
Planar Systems has collaborated with health-care equipment specialist Datex-Ohmeda to develop a flat-panel monitor combining safety, customisation, and seamless integration
For Datex-Ohmeda, the patient is the focus The company does not want to take any risks by using non-medical-grade components in its equipment which might compromise the safety of patients or care givers
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 8 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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This was a key criterion when the company was starting to look for a flat-panel monitor as an option to replace the traditional CRT - a move brought about by evolving customer requirements.
Although patient and care-giver safety issues were of the highest priority, these were not the only criteria for the optimum solution.
Datex-Ohmeda also needed to have a monitor with the company's own 'look and feel' that would be easy to use as well as easy to read - facilitating prompt decision-making in the most difficult and complex care situations.
The company called on Planar's depth of experience in providing medically oriented display solutions, with the result that the company was able to meet demanding time-to-market pressures without compromising product quality or patient-vicinity safety issues.
Planar provided an easy-to-use, customised full-colour monitor based on a 15-inch active-matrix colour liquid-crystal display with an excellent viewing angle, high contrast, and superior response times.
The monitor meets the strict medical-grade safety standards covering safety, electromagnetic capability, liquid ingress, and current-leakage from the power adaptor.
The thin, lightweight flat-panel monitor, a fraction of the size and weight of the traditional CRT monitors, represents an ergonomic space-saving solution.
The wide variety of mounting options allows Datex-Ohmeda to set up the optimal configuration for each customer.
'Planar has an ongoing policy of specialising in collaborative relationships with customers', comments European marketing director Tomas Bergh?ll: 'In this case, this philosophy has enabled us to produce a medical-grade customised flat-panel monitor solution that makes no compromise between safety, usability and appearance.'.
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