Why a Standardized Medical Display Console Matters

There are many critical benefits to purchasing a line of scales with uniform display consoles for your medical setting. As you may know, medical scales and other devices often feature their own, unique settings and consoles that must be learned by medical staff. However, the more technology you can standardize, the better it is in terms of cost savings and efficient training. That’s why Befour has designed scales with a standardized medical display console. Here, we explore the financial and training benefits of investing in these scales. 

Saves Money 

One of the reasons to purchase scales that feature standardized medical display consoles is the potential for money savings in the long run. In the medical field, there are many sources of variation and inconsistency, and these variations are responsible for anywhere from 25-65% of medical costs. Not only that; these inconsistencies across devices and technology tend to trickle down, causing dramatic cost increases for patients. 

The variations we refer to include, among other things, inconsistencies in the technology and equipment featured in hospitals and other clinical environments. These variations lead to inefficiencies for both the medical professionals and patient outcomes. The net results of these inefficiencies include an increase in wasteful healthcare costs and decreased quality of care. 

Choosing a line of medical scales with a standardized display console, including consistent screen size and image viewing, can reverse these inefficiencies and wasteful costs. More specifically, this choice can improve staff understanding and operations as well as patient outcomes that are reliant on such technology.     

Cuts Down On Training Time

One of the ways you can save money by investing in a line of scales with a standardized medical display console is through a decreased need for training time. When equipment is standardized, less redundant training time is needed and instruction can be streamlined for all medical staff. This consideration is an important one because training can be one of the most time-consuming aspects of implementing new technology, and those training sessions can be difficult to schedule. 

According to Jacque Burandt, the former executive director of the Center for Learning Excellence at University Health System in San Antonio, Texas, training is particularly challenging in the healthcare sector. He explains that, “It is extremely difficult to get an employee ‘off the job’ to attend training. There are so many competing priorities in any healthcare organization, and the patient always comes first. You can’t just walk away and go to class. Someone’s got to take care of the patient, someone’s got to read those lab results, clean the rooms, turn the bed. It’s all very time dependent.”

The importance of those competing priorities is why Befour designed streamlined scales with consistent display consoles that are easy to work with and understand. Gary Butters from our Product Design department further explains our goals: "When designing Befour's line of Professional Medical Scales, we saw the endless benefits of using just a single display console across the whole line. Regardless of the type of scale - the programming, calibration and button functions are all the same. Once you are familiar with one scale, you are fluent in operating every scale in our Medical Line." That consistency across programming, calibration and button functions means you can train staff just once on a device and apply what they learn to all new scales added to your medical setting. 

Explore Befour’s Standardized Medical Display Console Scales

As you can see, there are key cost-saving and training benefits to choosing a scale line with identical display consoles. A well-designed and intuitive console is one of the factors to consider when choosing a medical scale. Befour’s medical scales offer everything you need in terms of reliability, consistency and ease of use. When you are choosing a new line of medical scales, consider Befour’s standardized medical display console scales.