POINT RICHMOND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Black Diamond Video today announced it recently completed installation of its Integrated Digital Surgical Suites (IDSS) at St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, Illinois. BDV installed its IDSS systems in 16 operating rooms at St. John’s Hospital, including 11 general ORs, 3 advanced educational suites, and 2 neurosurgery rooms.
Black Diamond Video’s Integrated Digital Surgical Suites are HD video routing and display solutions for surgical environments. Designed to enhance operative visualization and collaboration, the IDSS systems will provide St. John’s Hospital with HD surgical video routing, HD image capture and recording, room-to-room HD video conferencing, live HD streaming, and more.
Charish Gibson, Manager of Orthopedic Surgery at St. John's, looks forward to the facility-wide benefits Black Diamond Video’s integrated systems will bring to St. John’s Hospital. "We are excited about getting to know the different ways that BDV will assist us from an improved patient care and improved efficiency perspective,” said Gibson.
“With these integrated operating rooms, we anticipate that St. John’s will enjoy the benefits of increased connection both within and outside the OR,” said Edward Priest, Founder and CEO of Black Diamond Video. “Surgical staff will be able to view surgical video in high definition on large displays within the OR, and stream or conference this video to remote destinations for instant consultation or teaching. We’re pleased to be able to assist St. John’s Hospital as they continue to find ways to enhance patient treatment and experience.”
With the addition of Black Diamond Video’s BDV Clarity™ package, St. John’s Hospital received a suite of tools to further enhance patient care and procedural efficiency. Black Diamond Video connects its integrated OR system to St. John’s HL7 messaging system to provide live patient status and monitoring through BDV Clarity Nurse Core View and Physician Remote View. With BDV Clarity Media Repository, St. John’s Hospital clinicians can archive and securely review surgical images and recordings after their procedures.
“From an immediate cost savings perspective, we are looking for the Media Repository to make an immediate impact by significantly reducing our printer ink and photo paper costs," noted Gibson. “Those costs are currently eye-opening. This would be friendlier to the environment as well."
About Black Diamond Video, Inc.
Black Diamond Video is a leading manufacturer and integrator of high-resolution digital video processing solutions for mission-critical medical, federal and commercial applications. The company manufactures a complete product line of 4K matrix switches, processors, scalers, signal conditioners, converters, extenders, system controllers, digital recorders, and H.264 streaming and conferencing technology.
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