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www.degradablesolutions.com · info.ds@ch.sunstar.com m a d eS w i s s YOUR SPECIALIST FOR RESORBABLE IMPLANTS, from idea to manufacturing OEM/CM 8 EH @ MEDICA No 2 2015 TUESDAY @ MEDICA Medical facilities today are con- fronted with implementing 4K resolu- tion video in their surgical rooms. To that end, FSN Medical Technologies reports, ‘We have the experience to design, develop and manufacture medical grade monitors and con- necting infrastructure that present images with incredible 4K sharpness and colour depth. There are more pixels on a 4K-monitor screen - and more pixels can show more informa- tion. This means sharper pictures… a 4K display allows much more nuance and detail to be viewed by the doc- tor,’ the manufacturer adds. ‘The improvement over HD can be aston- ishing. Higher resolution images are simply better.’ FSN has developed multi-stream- ing display technology that delivers a 4K picture, at 60 Hz, utilising a single DisplayPort 1.2 connection. DisplayPort can be combined with Report: Mélisande Rouger Medical informatics, also called bio- medical informatics, or health infor- matics, is facing a crucial moment. Not only does the boom in informa- tion technologies (IT) change health- care practice, but also the discipline, which emerged in the 1960s, has shown certain inertia lately. ‘As in many other well-established disciplines, there’s a tendency for us researchers to stick to well known research methodologies rather than focus on technologies that would contribute better to our objectives of advancing healthcare and sci- ence,’ said Reinhold Haux, director of the Peter L Reichertz institute for medical informatics at Braunschweig University, Germany. ‘Maybe it’s time to stand back and observe,’ he added. ‘Our field has taken a too mechanistic approach. FSN’s selection of optical fibre con- nectivity for the operating thea- tre (OT), the company points out. ‘Fibre optic signals are immune to EMI, electromagnetic interference. Content transmitted over fibre optic cabling is inherently secure, a feature favoured in government, military, and medical environments. ‘Fibre optic cable eliminates the restrictions of distance. Lengths can be hundreds or even thousands of metres. We have combined the best features of optical fibre and DisplayPort to efficiently transmit the clearest 4K signals.’ We are happy if a system works according to our criteria and we for- get to ask if it applies to the subject matter,’ said Anne Moen, professor at the institute of health and society, University of Oslo, Norway, and cur- rent EFMI vice president. A trained nurse, Moen insisted on the necessity of going back to healthcare, a subjective experience, when doing research. ‘I would call for a return to practice, an expand- ed repertoire of methodologies and more interdisciplinary research fac- toring the healthcare knowledge experiences and wisdoms into the equation. We have a lot to gain from revisiting the past and reflecting on the level of analysis,’ she believes. ‘We need to continue developing sets of methods to account for the context of the situation and subjec- tivity of healthcare experience.’ Casimir Kulikowski, profes- sor of computer science at Rutgers University, New Jersey, questioned the very foundation of the field: ‘It’s missing. We all know that our field is horrendously heterogeneous and unhappily fragmented many times, because we have very differ- FSN’s 4K LCD product selection comes with signal input options for DVI and DisplayPort, plus DC out power for smaller components. The outer design is slim and sleek, with flush-front glass bezel; the tech- nology within displays can create variable screen layouts, including picture-in-picture, and quad screen formats. ‘For example, the firm con- tinues, ‘the information shown on four 27” HD monitors can now be displayed on one 55” 4K screen, in quad view, all in full 1080 resolution.’ FSN Medical Technologies is rep- resented in the UK, Germany, USA, Korea and China. Details: www.fsnmed.com. ent practitioners with very different goals, requirements, uses and types of information.’ Carrying out research in biomedi- cal informatics is a complex task because it has to deal with trans- lational medicine, different scales, types of information and knowledge. Kulikowski: ‘Medical informatics is a meld: we have to deal with science, professional practice technologies and businesses; this has become very important and is a major controver- sial issue.’ Medical informatics can become confused with health IT, which is concerned primarily with juggling administrative, economical logistical supports for existing systems moti- vated by profit, which he deplores. The professor urged a return to ‘the sensory, perceptual and social processes of patients, practitioners and scientists’, and insisted on the centrality of doing good modelling, simulation and experimental design, instead of focusing on Big Data. ‘Modelling is central to everything we do. It comes from the head, not the computer or the cloud. The cloud is an abstraction; the real clouds are Raising resolution It’s time to make higher quality videos FSN is at Medica Hall 10 / Stand G39 How is medical informatics doing? What kind of impact does the proliferation of new medical apps have over its practice? Which directions should the field take to continue to benefit medicine? A panel of the world’s leading experts set out to answer all those questions during Medical Informatics Europe, the annual meeting of the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI) that took place in Madrid in May The future of medical inf A Yale engineering and applied science graduate (1966), with PhD in Electrical Engineering from Hawaii Uni (1970), CasimirA Kulikowski is now a Professor at the Computer Science Dept, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, where he researches artificial intelligence, biomedical and health informatics and societal impact of computers in health and historical analysis. Rutgers Computer Science Dept (1984-’90), and directed its Research Resource on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Sadly, his presence and authorship in medical informatics are too many to add here. 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