Rob Fabrizio, Director of Marketing Digital X-Ray Systems, Fujifilm Medical Systems
Customer feedback, patient dose, and image quality are always the central focus of Stamford, Conn-based Fujifilm Medical Systems’ product development process, says Rob Fabrizio, director of marketing digital x-ray systems, about the company’s recent announcement concerning the availability of its FDR D-EVO Suite II. He notes that the new system is “perfect for everyday use [in] high-volume, high-stress emergency departments.”
“Every [health care organization] in today’s environment is now focused on better workflow efficiency and lower patient dose,” said Fabrizio. “This [DR suite] brings the best of all of these in a solid, reliable system.”
The system’s workflow enhancements also provide benefits in areas where speed during the exam is critical, according to the company, which says that the FDR D-EVO Suite II is a cost-effective, flexible DR room solution designed to optimize workflow while utilizing any of Fujifilm’s popular FDR D-EVO portable detectors. Designed with busy technologists and their patients in mind, the company’s DR suite comes equipped with new automation and display features on the tube head. The new tube head includes a convenient touchscreen for system adjustments traditionally found at the generator console.
Fabrizio notes that the company’s new DR room solution features “just the right mix of ‘grab-and-go’ manual operation combined with a motorized elevation tube head that automatically tracks to height adjustments of the table or upright.” Other features include a new touchscreen display tube head that allows adjustments of x-ray techniques and other system functions from the tube display, which, according to the company, allow technologists to stay with the patient and simply return to the control desk to take the exposure.
Improvements to the company’s DR room solution include its increased table weight capacity to 616 pounds, which allows for larger patients. Further, the simplified tube and collimation field size tracking to table and upright, and improved generator system in a small cabinet, means the system is capable of higher performance and configurable for use in a hospital that relies on a single phase power main, according to Fujifilm.
Fujifilm’s FDR D-EVO Suite II is a cost-effective, flexible DR room solution designed to optimize workflow.
According to the company, physicians will immediately realize significant improvements in image quality for all exams, especially those that were traditionally more difficult to image, such as portable exams, bariatric patients, and low-dose exams for extremities and pediatrics. Further, Fujifilm’s latest DR detectors will allow administrators to perform exams with significantly lower dose than traditional technologies, so they can promote safer exams with lower dose for the patient.
“We encourage and solicit user feedback through routine customer communications and through product assessment road trips. This is evident when users notice the well-thought- out features and subtle but valuable user conveniences such as automation of collimator lights with detector and tube movements, a noticeably lower table positioning for easier on-loading/off-loading of patients, and front- and rear-toe controls on the table, which are also positioned vertically to prevent patients from accidentally stepping on them when getting on or off the table,” said Fabrizio.
In terms of the new DR suite’s ability to improve patient care, Fabrizio notes that patients will receive faster, more comfortable care, while the company’s detector technology brings lower dose and produces diagnostic confidence for treating patients for more accurate and immediate care. “Technologists will love the system’s fast, grab-and-go design, its ease of use, and how great the resulting images make them look. Administrators can take comfort in the reliability and performance they have come to expect from Fujifilm.”
The FDR D-EVO Suite II began shipping in August.
