Eizo, Ondal to update clinical monitor technology

Eizo Display Technologies, a developer of visual displays for medical imaging applications, and the Hunfeld, Germany-based electromechanical equipment manufacturer Ondal Industrietechnik have partnered to provide monitor carrying systems, monitors and accessories suitable for use in interventional radiology, as well as in standard and hybrid operating rooms.

The companies‘ offerings consist of prewired carrying systems attuned to Eizo’s monitors and image management systems, and the monitors can be interchanged in the monitor carrying system by plug-and-play. The technology also will afford facilities the ability to upgrade operating rooms and radiology systems to large screens, said Karlsruhe, Germany-based Eizo.

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