Is Your OR Going Digital?

Priority one: electronic images, data; Centralized controls: A mixed bag; "Tele-capabilities": A niche market; Inevitable change?; Access; Adds; Adopters Accessing; Arizona-based ASC; Army; Brownstein; CDs; CRT; CT; Capabilities Non-adopters^ Want? Yes Unsure No Electronic; Capabilities? Percentage; Capital Regional Medical Center; Case; Center; Connecticut-based; Dallas-based Texas Institute; Data/Image Management Capabilities? Percentage; Digital Capabilities Non-adopters^ Want? Yes Unsure No Electronic; Digital ORs; Faxing; Feedback; Forty-five; Health System; Imagine; Important Data/Image Management Capabilities? Percentage; Inevitable; Infor-mation; Institute; Learn; MRIs; Machines; Management Capabilities? Percentage; Medical Center; Memorial Medical Center; Midwestern; Mo. Once; Mr. Brownstein; MultiCare Health System; Non-adopters^ Want? Yes Unsure No Electronic; OR's; ORs; Ohio-based; Pa. The; Physician Surgery Center; Plastic Surgery; Priority; RN; Regional Medical Center; Renaissance Center; Respondents; Rolla, Mo. Once; Saddleback Memorial Medical Center; Shavertown, Pa. The; Sixty; Surgery; Surgery Center; System; Texas Institute; Want? 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