In today's healthcare environment, there are needs for smaller, less expensive, more lightweight, and easy to use equipment. We also rely on clinical studies. We reuse designs and manufacturing techniques that have proven reliable. The company conducts competitive benchmarking and consistently focuses on high-value, reasonable priced products. Beardslee and his team also rely on market surveys, competitive benchmarking customer focus groups, industry experts, market trends, and customer requests for new features to help define requirements.
Users can hang it on a wall or mount it on a stand.
So it gives them flexibility that didn't exist before with the desktop models. Since it's smaller and lighter, it doesn't come in a big wooden crate. And, it doesn't take several people to unpack it and move it. One person can do it all. The low cost enables the placement of more units throughout a healthcare facility where quick access to high-quality electronic images will enhance patient care, such as the intensive care unit, coronary care unit, and emergency department, as well as at teaching hospitals and alternate care settings.