Breast cancer screening is at once one of the most significant, life-saving components of women’s healthcare, and also one of the most under-utilized, potentially difficult to access, and under-reimbursed. Finding ways to address those challenges involves advancing not only the technological solutions that underpin breast imaging modalities but the disparities in access to them.
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One of the most significant, costly and critical components of owning any piece of medical imaging technology is establishing a network of support around keeping it functioning at a high level for as long as possible. Critical to ensuring that support is a robust service contract; however, the variability and complexity of structuring such an agreement requires careful consideration and a detailed review by subject matter experts.
The work that it takes to land a medical imaging leadership position requires years of professional experience, the achievement of advanced degrees and technical certifications, and the ability to work effectively in a variety of situations with different people.
If the landscape for diagnostic imaging demand in the United States were depicted as a topographical map, it might resemble nothing less than a steep, sharp peak, climbing skyward into a cloud bank.
In the medical equipment manufacturing space, proprietary information is powerful. The investments required to bring a life-saving technology to market are often measured in the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, and the opportunity to profit from those investments isn’t always guaranteed in a free-market economy, or at least, not for long.
Across the medical imaging industry landscape, healthcare institutions are managing around recruitment and retention concerns that include a shortage of professionals across positions, lengthy times to get them prepared for those roles, and increased volumes of imaging studies that must be performed, read, and maintained in the delivery of high-quality patient care.
The conventional wisdom associated with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is that it’s a safer imaging modality than computed tomography (CT) or X-ray because it doesn’t rely on exposing human tissue to ionizing radiation. However, that doesn’t mean that MRI is a completely benign modality, or that there aren’t safety concerns and contraindications for patients prescribed an MR study.
Portable ultrasound technology, which sprang from a U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) challenge grant for the development of a diagnostic technology that could reach soldiers in the battlefield during combat, led to the creation of the first widely produced portable ultrasound device, the Sonosite 180.
When Keith Hall joined the U.S. Army in 1999, he was a 19-year-old searching for opportunities that could help him find a stable career.
In a February 2022 whitepaper, the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) described “a perfect storm” of factors contributing to a labor shortfall in the medical imaging and radiation therapy professions.
