Healthcare Construction & Operations
It happens thousands of times each day at hospitals and health care facilities around the country. Doctors need to take a look inside a patient, so they order a MRI, CT scan or X-ray.
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa. — GE, Philips, Siemens and Toshiba are dominating the MRI market, according to ECRI Institute. The nonprofit health care research organization recently released on Aug. 13 details of its poll that asked hundreds of MRI users to rate the best systems on the market.
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ST. LOUIS — St. Louis University Hospital recently completed a renovation of the MRI facility at its TenetCare outpatient diagnostic testing center.
WASHINGTON — Though it may be the second most abundant element in the universe, a helium shortage is beginning to affect hospitals throughout the world, as the element serves a key purpose for MRI machines. The element may be prevalent throughout the cosmos, but Earth’s atmosphere is not particularly effective at keeping it here, meaning it is mostly harvested from underground deposits where it has been trapped by the planet’s geology.
Read moreBOSTON — The world’s first three-bay operating suite to house MRI, PET/CT, ultrasound and angiography in one place opened at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, offering advancements to image-guided surgical treatment procedures.
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