The global medical equipment industry, which has been growing at a good pace in recent years, is expected to have a value of more than $500 billion by the end of 2020. Not surprisingly, the United States is the dominant region of the industry, followed by Europe and the Asia-Pacific. In the Asia-Pacific, China leads the industry, along with Japan and South Korea.
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Hitachi Medical Systems America has installed several of its Echelon Oval 1.5T MRI systems with new Evolution 5 Software capabilities at community hospitals around the United States. Offering a 74 cm wide bore, the Echelon Oval is the widest available 1.5T MR system, according to Hitachi officials.
Read MoreMR Solutions is celebrating a research and development award recently received by its preclinical scanner, the MRS 7000. One of the recipients of the U.S.-based R&D 100 Awards, the compact MRS 7000 series is the world’s first 7.0 Tesla helium-free, preclinical MRI system; it can be combined with photo-emission CT and SPECT imaging modules.
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Carestream announced that it is now accepting orders across the globe for its OnSight 3D extremity system, with plans to begin shipping out the system to customers in December. The OnSight 3D extremity system will also be on display at the annual Radiological Society of North America conference, which runs from November 27 to December 2 in Chicago.
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In a year marked by change—HTM program closures at DeVry and Brown Mackie College, executive moves at AAMI, and even editorial change-ups at 24×7—one thing remained largely the same: Your salaries. 24×7’s 2015 compensation and job satisfaction survey reported median national salaries of $45,000, $54,000, and $66,000 for BMET 1, BMET 2, and BMET 3 rankings, respectively. One year later, only BMET 2s saw any change in wages.
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