HOW EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES CAN HELP IMPROVE THE CLIENT-CENTERED PRACTICE: EQUIPMENT INTEGRATION

摘要

Integration of equipment in a veterinary practice with practice management or other third-party software is becoming easier Due to standards present in the human market and the relative ease of creation of industry-standard file formats such as DICOMand the JPEG image, newer equipment comes ready to interface. Establishing an equipment interface may or may not require cabling. Equipment may use a serial interface, a parallel interface, standard RS-232 interface, CAT-5 cabling, or even wireless access Equipment that must be connected directly to a computer interface to exchange data may benefit from wireless access in a secondary manner, Some machines such as EKGs may need to be extremely mobile within the practice The addition of wireless technology added to the computer interface allows the necessary mobility and still captures the data for use in clinical practice.