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New England Medical Center

On With the Slide Show

A picture is worth a thousand words -- but not if you can't find it when you need it. An informative audio-visual presentation must be an organized one. That's why Dr. Dan Ballin, of the New England Medical Center's Department of Emergency Medicine, has high hopes for the new Image Capture feature found in the latest version of FileMaker Pro 6-- the award-winning database software application from FileMaker Inc.

FileMaker databases built in previous versions of the software are widely used in Dan's department. "We have six or seven databases used for patient tracking, lab services, and by "childlife" specialists who take care of kids in the emergency department," he explains. But when Dan got the chance to try out the new FileMaker Pro 6, his attention was seized by the Image Capture tool -- a feature which allows digital images to be imported directly into a FileMaker database. Using the power of Mac OSX, FileMaker Pro 6 imports images and image data (aperture, exposure length, flash setting, etc.) straight from a digital camera, in a single step, to a FileMaker database. It's no longer necessary to laboriously import one image at a time, and Dan is counting on this feature to greatly simplify the organizing of the department's image files. "When I was taking pictures on slides I kept track of them by numbers logged in a FileMaker Pro database," said Dr. Ballin. "Image capture will make it easy to store not only the images, but also exposure information which is useful in learning and teaching others about medical photography. FileMaker Pro 6 image capture will be extremely useful and will allow me to do all this digitally."

From a drawer full of slides, entered one at a time into a FileMaker Pro database to rapid-fire digital capture -- that's technological progress summed up in a single picture!

Contact information

Contact Info for Customer:

Dan Ballin, MD
Doctor
New England Medical Center Dept. of Emergency Medicine
617-636-9631
dballin@opal.tufts.edu

Filemaker Contact:

Kevin Mallon
Public Relations Manager
FileMaker Inc.
408-987-7227
kevin_mallon@filemaker.com
http://www.filemaker.com

• Images well-organized with just a few clicks -- FileMaker Pro 6 may soon be making a difference at New England Medical Center's Department of Emergency Medicine.

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