Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) has developed two new tools for medical displays. The SMfit Total Care quality software guarantees constant image quality on the screens, and the SMfit Site Manager Software allows remote maintenance of displays installed anywhere in the world.

Precise image reproduction is particularly important in medical engineering. However, the image quality of any display inevitably changes over the course of its service life. Now, with the new A&D quality software SMfit Total Care, the display parameters of almost all monitors can be set to a uniform quality, allowing for precision and accuracy in the medical environment. The tool works with LCDs and CRTs – either monochrome or color – as well as commercially available graphics cards. Total Care automatically creates quality reports on executed actions, and, if necessary, deviant parameters can be adjusted by using an external photometer, thereby guaranteeing the displays’ diagnostics reliability. Along with the PACS (picture archiving and communication system) applications typical here, displays can even be adjusted to modalities.

The supplementary program SMfit Site Manager also offers the facility for managing and maintaining any number of displays from a central point within the medical environment. Users can support their workstations efficiently with regard to time and costs over the intranet or Internet. SMfit Site Manager sends e-mails to pre-defined recipients if technical problems arise on a display, or when maintenance dates are coming up. In addition, an integral asset management system lists the messages, statuses and executed actions of the entire installation.

Courtesy of  Siemens