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A coworker of mine often refers to his time of working on a CT scanner which this reminded me of. One story was around how a new model was released that used a
by spondyl 8y ago
A coworker of mine often refers to his time of working on a CT scanner which this reminded me of. One story was around how a new model was released that used a touchscreen instead of tactile buttons.
As you can imagine, a doctor could previously fully focus on the patient as they were able to feel the feedback of physical buttons.
With the introduction of a touchscreen, they would have to continually switch between looking at the positioning of the patient, and looking to their right at the LCD panel in the CT scanner itself.
A quick look at the website of the large company in question seems to indicate that they reverted back to a non-touch screen display. I should hope so given that we're talking about hospital patients here!
- digi_owl 8y agoRead about similar where doctors would keep using older DOS based software because they could operate the keyboard by touch, and thus bring up test results etc while maintaining the conversation with the patient.
- ahartmetz 8y agoPhew, well at least they did switch back. We're probably going to see more of that where it makes sense, now that having a touchscreen isn't a big deal anymore.