Your Guide to Medical Imaging Equipment

If you’re a hospital imaging director or purchasing director, you already know that it isn’t getting any easier to gain capital approval for equipment purchases. Reimbursement cuts, new accreditation requirements, ACA changes- all of these things, and others, have played a part in creating a trend that asks you to do more with less.

Extremity magnets have always filled a unique niche in the MRI market. Or, more accurately two niches, each a distinct need. We'll talk about both of them below. If either of these scenarios sounds like your practice, an extremity MRI is an option you may want to consider.

So you're considering upgrading your X-ray system to DR (digital radiography)? That's great! There will be image quality, workflow, and throughput advantages in your future. All you have to do is make a digital detector/panel/plate at home in your wall or table bucky. BUT (There's always a but, isn't there?) there are a variety of ways to make this upgrade happen and, while all of them stand to improve your system's performance, not all of them will strike the ideal balance between your site's patient care needs and budget scenario.