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Lisa Chamoff, Contributing Reporter | November 21, 2017
From the November 2017 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
The user interface is also the same within the Max family, adding to ease of use.
“Seventy-five percent of the components used in the Fusion Max are the same used in the Ysio Max,” D’Antonio says.
Joe Kidd, an X-ray technologist at the Soin Family Practice Center in Beavercreek, Ohio, uses the Multix Fusion Max and says he appreciates the system’s ease of use and speed.
“I think I’ve only had to repeat one image because the system is so easy to use,” Kidd says. “You also have the ability to see the image within six to nine seconds. It pops on your screen sometimes before you’re ready to look at it. With the first digital machine that I used, it took up to a minute to see the image.”
Siemens has also begun to install the 3-D option for the Multitom Rax Twin Robotic X-ray scanner, which was FDA cleared at the end of 2015 and has twin robotic arms that move around the patient during exams.
The 3-D option allows for the ability to image while the patient is in a natural weight-bearing position.
“Structures are going to show up much differently in a natural weight-bearing way,” D’Antonio says.
The Multitom Rax is also a good multipurpose option for facilities.
“Customers are very excited about the multi-use aspect,” D’Antonio says. “You can move swallow studies, angio studies and routine rad exams through the Multitom Rax very quickly. It’s allowed our customers to better use their assets and to combine systems. Instead of adding a fluoro room they add the Multitom Rax.”
Since not all customers are ready to move to a fully digital platform, Siemens introduced its DR retrofit, ArtPix EZ2GO, at the end of last year. It uses a detector from the same family as the Fusion Max and Ysio Max, so customers that eventually decide to fully upgrade don’t need to purchase another detector, splitting the upgrade into two phases.
“We’ve been interested in the retrofit market for a while,” D’Antonio says. “With the looming reimbursement changes, we have seen a high level of interest. Clearly, other vendors have been in the retrofit market for years, but our ability to provide an on-ramp for digital and an on-ramp for Siemens technology makes us unique.”
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