Brittany Stratmann, Marketing & Sales Coordinator ESCO is headed to the Windy City! Next week, April 12-16, our healthcare team will join over 38 thousand IT professionals, clinicians and vendors at the annual HIMSS conference and exhibition in Chicago. HIMSS, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1961, with a vision of “better health through information technology.” Since its creation, HIMSS has grown to a [...]
Kevin Watson, CTS-D -- AVL Engineer, Business Development This weekend will be one of the busiest weekends for Christian churches around the world as they celebrate Easter. What many people aren’t thinking about as they assemble upon the worship facility are the acoustical factors (how sound is bouncing around the space) that have gone into creating the atmosphere of the room. Likely they will recognize the lighting, whether theatrical or just architectural, and probably see the decorations [...]
Chuck McCormick, PSP, CAHSO - Solutions Engineer It's that crazy time of year where people are feverishly filling out their brackets, going over stats, matching history with heart and sometimes flipping a coin. Security is just like the whittling-down process of picking winners in your brackets – you need to have a strategy. We start by reviewing a minimum of four key regions or areas, then break it down until there is one clear winner. Policies: The Why Policies are the spirit of the [...]
Darin Hutson, Solutions Engineer The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) recently released DisplayPort 1.3 Standard. One of the biggest improvements with this new standard is the doubled size of the pipeline, or bandwidth. DisplayPort uses four wires, or lanes, each carrying 8.1 Gbps of video data. This allows for higher resolution to monitors, including the recently announced 5K monitors, or even two 4K monitors. With the bandwidth doubled to 32.4 Gbps, there’s an advantage over[...]
Gary Dunn, Executive Vice President When was the last time you were in a hospital, either as a patient or visitor? If you have been in one recently, you’re aware that hospital environments have changed considerably over the past five to six years. Most in-patient rooms are now private. The physical design of the rooms is aesthetically more like a nice hotel suite. The rooms are larger and open with nice furniture, warm colors and lots of wood and tile finishes. There abounds new medical [...]