1. Medical imaging technology is a rapidly changing field, and healthcare organizations have multiple options for new acquisitions. Here are the technologies customers plan to purchase in 2015:
• Radiation dose monitoring: 49 percent
• Speech recognition: 28 percent
• Image sharing: 18 percent
• VNA: 16 percent
• PACS: 15 percent
• Enterprise imaging platform: 7 percent
• Other modalities: 5 percent
• Advanced visualization: 3 percent
• Digital X-ray: 2 percent
2. There are several technologies in imaging modalities and imaging IT that customers are excited about.
Exciting new imaging modality technology
• Breast tomosynthesis: 54.6 percent
• Portable DR: 21.6 percent
• PET/MR: 11.3 percent
• Dose reduction CT: 9.3 percent
• EOS: 3.1 percent
Exciting new imaging IT technology
• Cloud-based image sharing: 26 percent
• VNA: 23 percent
• Advances in dose management: 16 percent
• Clinical decision support: 11 percent
• Universal viewers: 9 percent
• Analytics: 7 percent
• CAD: 5 percent
3. Top imaging IT vendors include:
• Nuance: 14.4 percent
• AGFA: 12.7 percent
• Fujifilm: 10.2 percent
• McKesson: 9.3 percent
• Siemens: 8.9 percent
• Visage: 7.2 percent
• Merge (IBM): 6.1 percent
• Carestream: 5.1 percent
• GE: 4.6 percent
• Perceptive: 4.2 percent
• M*Modal: 3.6 percent
• Vital Images: 1.5 percent
• None/unsatisfied with all: 1.7 percent
4. The top reasons for preferring one vendor over another include:
• Solution functionality: 23.7 percent
• Solution quality: 20.3 percent
• Customer support/service: 19.6 percent
• Integration with other systems: 13.4 percent
• Professional services: 9.7 percent
• Account management/sales: 6.1 percent
• Total ownership cost: 5.8 percent
• Other: 1.3 percent
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