Image review station for the surgical intensive care unit of the Hospital of the University of Minnesota: design and workflow evaluation

A simple image review station has been designed for the surgical intensive care unit (SICU) of the Hospital of the University of Minnesota. The review station provides clinicians with digitized copies of all conventional films taken while a patient is in the SICU. The image review station consists of a single screen SPARCstation IPX. Images are acquired through a Kodak film digitizer and managed in cooperation with a bedside electronic medical record system on this unit. The review station software maintains a detailed log of all interactions that is routinely downloaded to a relational database for analysis of usage patterns.

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