PACS furniture provider RedRick Technologies has released its first planning guide focused on optimizing medical imaging reading environments.
The guide offers practical guidance for architects, designers, facilities planners, and clinical department leaders who design and renovate medical imaging reading rooms, summarizing best practices and defining the factors that constitute good reading room design and siting, the company said. RedRick collaborated with global design firm CannonDesign on the project.
The guide emphasizes using good ergonomic principles to eliminate repetitive-motion injuries, and it provides advice on locating reading rooms to enhance communication between radiologists and clinicians, RedRick said.
Reading room optimization is a long-overlooked opportunity that can benefit the reinvention of radiology, said Dr. Eliot Siegel, vice chair of radiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in a statement. The planning guide will enable organizations to benefit from collective knowledge, he added.
The guide breaks down the reading environment into primary, secondary, and tertiary zones to allow a more holistic understanding of the elements of a good reading room, the company said.
