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Academic Medical Center role in IMAGING sYsTeMs decision-making top 5 Business priorities 1 2 Recommend purchases 58% final decision 22% specify supplier/ vendor 20% 3 4 5 Improving productivity and workﬂow improving patient care Patient/customer satisfaction decreases in reimbursement creating new revenue sources changes in IMAGING sYsTeMs Budget  increase Increase 53% no change 39% decrease 8% Revenue Watch  decrease 48%  5%–10%  56% 28%  < 5%  13% 20%  10%–15%  13% Ultrasound is the No. 1 imaging technology in which facilities are investing in 2008. Applications are very evenly matched, with 15 percent of respondents each choosing portable, ob/gyn, echocardiography, 4D and 3D applications. Surgery represents about 6 percent of the new installs or replacements. CT is No. 2, with 32 percent of respondents opting for 64-slice systems. About 8 percent are choosing 128-slice systems, 7 percent are opting for 320-slice and 7 percent still see 16-slice as the best option. The radiology department sees the majority of CT installs (43 percent), followed by the emergency department (12 percent) and cardiology (10 percent). Surgery sees about 2 percent of CT installs, with other areas making up the 2 percent balance. Digital mammography, last year’s top technology buy, is No. 3 this year, followed by MRI. When adding or replacing MRI, 1.5T technology is king with a quarter of installs—but 3T is the choice of 19 percent of respondents. MR-based breast imaging is really gaining steam, too. It is the top clinical area facilities are focusing on with MRI (33 percent) this year. Neurology (21 percent) is next, followed by cardiac (20 percent), orthopedics (16 percent) and musculoskeletal (16 percent). Bread-and-butter imaging with CR is No. 5. Multi-plate CR options are most popular, being the choice for 21 percent of respondents, followed by mammography (11 percent), single plate (10 percent) and long bone (6 percent). DR is close behind at No. 6. Buying a new DR system is the choice about three quarters of the time vs. retrofitting systems which is the option for a quarter of the market. PET/CT is rising in popularity at No. 7 on the clinical imaging systems need-to-buy list—last year it didn’t make the Top 10. When buying PET/CT, 64-slice is the choice 46 percent of the time, followed by 16-slice (29 percent) and 32-slice (10 percent). Oncology is still PET/CT’s top application (25 percent), followed by cardiology (9 percent), neurology (6 percent) and infection imaging (4 percent). why is revenue increasing?  adding new technology that what are you doing to combat the decrease?    increases revenue Holding off filling vacant positions delaying technology purchases trying to work more efficiently by investing in technology designed to increase productivity and effiency freezing investment/expansion reducing staff  adding new clinical service line  increased marketing   Who’s competing hardest with you? Free-standing imaging centers 60% general or acute-care hospitals 43% Physician group practices 26% specialty hospitals 22% adding new clinical service lines 1. outpatient center 2. oncology/ radiation oncology 3. cardiology top Buys in 2008 IT $ data storage $ data network $ disaster recovery/ Clinical IT $ ris $ His $ cardiology Pacs Imaging Systems $ ultrasound $ ct** $ digital mammography $ PEt/ct $ Workﬂow analysis tools $ nuclear medicine Pacs $ Mri* new serVice lines When it comes to increasing clinical service lines, cardiology comes out tops—with 22 percent of facilities saying they will add cardiolHealthimaging.com business continuity $ Wireless technologies $ EMr * 20% 1.5 t; 31% 3 t; 6% i.0 t ** 42% 64-slice; 19% 128-slice; 10% 320-slice october 2008 | Health Imaging & IT 15 http://www.Healthimaging.com

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