In the medical field, touch screens offer solutions to all sorts of everyday issues. They offer simplicity by reducing peripheral devices like a mouse or keyboard and eliminating external components like buttons, switches and dials, which are often bulky and inefficient. Excess components increase the size of the product and the probability of component failure over time.
Touch screens also mean all information will be—literally—at the medical professional’s fingertips. By removing external controls and replacing them with a touch screen, all available user options, like menu selection, time and frequency division, contrast adjust, and volume can now be displayed as menu options on the LCD glass.