Clinical Systems
Clinical systems, sometime referred to as clinical IT or clinical care equipment, is the heart of what you see in hospital, clinics and doctors offices. There is a broad spectrum of equipment such as patient monitoring, IV infusion, oximeters, defibrillation, ventilators, a variety of monitors/tablets, crash carts, infotainment, near-bed computers, medical carts and vitro diagnostics to name just a few that create the healthcare environment around us. This equipment is typically small, low power and noise-limited or fanless. It is sometimes mobile and possibly washable for sanitizing but still requires high performance processing. Emerson extended life, stable BIOS industrial motherboards are the ideal fit for this area of concentration.

Diagnostic Imaging
Diagnostic imaging is characterized by high performance compute and memory demands from increasingly higher image rates coupled with real-time imaging. These medical devices include large and high performance computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET)/nuclear medicine, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound and X-ray. Most of the devices, excluding ultrasound, are found in separate dedicated radiology suites. The imaging equipment plays an increasingly critical role in the key medical initiatives around early disease detection and preventive care which in turn impacts healthcare patient costs and late life post-disease treatment. A strong evolving trend for real time imaging at the point of care for surgical diagnosis is placing even more demands on compute in cardio X-ray and 4D ultrasound. Emerson high performance industrial motherboards are the ideal platforms for diagnostic imaging.

Home and Emergency Healthcare
Home and emergency healthcare (HEH) is a rapidly evolving and growing area for healthcare OEMs. As the elderly population and the rapid expansion of mobile emergency capabilities increase so do the demands on the equipment for network-centric medical applications. Most clinical IT and diagnostic imaging applications translate over to HEH. In addition there have been significant advancements in mobile and portable intelligent network platforms for telemedicine, respironics, connected response or early responder network equipment. This extended virtual healthcare environment requires widespread adoption of in-home video and audio supported by, for example, wireless broadband using WiFi or WiMAX networks, to enable real time connectivity in the home as well as in rural areas. Emerson’s high performance industrial motherboards, with extended operating ranges and powered-up operating time, offer the agility required by this networked healthcare equipment.