How can Barco make a difference in today’s hospitals? Industry experts visiting the Zorg & ICT trade fair that opens today in Utrecht, the Netherlands, will find out soon. On show at the Barco booth are three series of innovative products that can optimize the workflow of healthcare professionals, while enhancing the patient experience.

It’s been exciting times for Barco’s healthcare team, over the past few months. Besides preparing for HIMMS, ECR and Zorg & ICT, we were also designing a booth concept and deliverables for a trade fair that is brand new on our events calendar: IDS 2013, Europe’s leading dentistry trade fair. The reason for our visit to IDS in Cologne is called Eonis - Barco’s very first medical display designed especially for dental practices.

Barco is showcasing its medical product range in healthcare-related trade shows around the world, these days. While the Barco booth at HIMMS has been attracting visitors since last Sunday, our booth at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna opened yesterday morning. Radiologists and other healthcare specialists from around Europe have a chance to discover Barco’s range of medical display systems and quality assurance solutions until next Monday.

With the demand for healthcare services increasing dramatically in the coming years coupled with a global shortage, healthcare delivery organizations are challenged to do more with less. One potential solution is the advent of Interactive Patient Care solutions, providing a secure, convenient portal for clinical information, entertainment and communications capabilities right at the patient bedside. In this month’s rAVe Pubs, Warren Kressinger-Dunn, VP Strategic Marketing for Barco Point of Care discusses how these bedside smart terminals are changing the way hospitals, caregivers and patients are optimizing the road to recovery.

Designed with clinical specialists in mind, the Eonis displays combine an innovative, built-in front sensor with Barco’s MediCal QAWeb cloud-based tool to ensure superior, controlled image quality. The Eonis 22” model is available in a black and a white version, with the latter offering a fully cleanable front glass panel to prevent infection – a first in the market.

With nearly 80 percent of physicians using smartphones and mobile devices in their medical practice, precise calibration is essential to ensure the most accurate images. At this year’s RSNA, Barco will show radiologists how they can optimize diagnostic image viewing on mobile devices.

A special presentation of “Demonstration of a Visual Calibration Algorithm for iPad” will be offered at the Mobile Connect pavilion on:
• Tuesday, November 27 at 11:00 am
• Thursday, November 29 at 2:00 pm

Patients in 21 UK NHS hospitals will soon enjoy a surprisingly wide choice of entertainment and communication services, thanks to Barco’s JAO Point-of-Care smart terminals. Since 2010, Barco has delivered 15,000 units to Hospedia, the world’s leading provider of bedside Point-of-Care (POC) systems in healthcare, under a program to renew its entire fleet in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) hospitals. “The bedside terminals combined with Hospedia’s world-leading software are proving absolutely central to help hospitals cut costs while offering superb patient care,” said Hospedia's Commercial and Media Director, Ben Packman.

This year’s JFR trade show takes place from 19 till 23 October. A range of Barco’s medical display products will be on show during this radiology and medical imaging exhibition in Paris, France.

Tune in to the new medical drama, The Mob Doctor, on FOX Mondays at 9 p.m. Eastern, and you’ll see Barco’s healthcare displays located throughout the hospital studio set. When developing the new series, Sony Pictures wanted the most cutting-edge medical displays for placement in its ER, ICUs, operating rooms and radiology suite. Barco provided the right touch of high-tech realism to the show with its MDRC clinical review, MDSC surgical and Coronis diagnostic displays to showcase the latest medical technologies.

The new MDSC-2226 is a 26-inch surgical display that features full compatibility with Barco's networked digital operating room (Nexxis for OR), ensuring smooth distribution of uncompressed video and data over the IP network without delay.