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2008 Mid-Term Performance Review - Medical Equipment
The "Mid-Term Performance Review" is published annually on December 15th and is meant to provide an overview of the state of each vendor where there is sufficient performance data. Each product is listed by vendor with the market segment noted.
KLAS first released the online database with medical imaging equipment vendor performance in 2006. Since that time, KLAS has been expanding the breadth of its medical equipment research into other areas, such as smart infusion pumps and pharmacy automation.
What’s New?
- Analog X-ray is now C-arm
- Digital X-ray
- Mobile is a new market segment
- Radiation Oncology is a new market segment
- Toshiba has acquired Barco
Medical Equipment Market Segments Represented in the 2008 "Mid-Term Performance Review"
- C-arm
- Magnetic Resonance (MR) - 1.5T
- Computed Radiography (CR) - Multi-Plate
- Magnetic Resonance (MR) - 3.0T
- Computed Radiography (CR) - Single-Plate
- Magnetic Resonance (MR) - Open
- Computed Tomography (CT) - 64-slice+
- Medication Dispensing - Centralized
- Computed Tomography (CT) - Under 64-slice
- Medication Dispensing - Decentralized
- CV/IR X-ray
- Nuclear Medicine
- DEXA
- Patient Monitors
- Digital X-ray
- Radiation Oncology
- Digital X-ray - Mobile
- Smart Pumps
- High-Volume Unit Dose Packaging
- Ultrasound
- Mammography - CR
- Ultrasound - Hand-Carried
- Mammography - Digital
The 2008 "Mid-Term Performance Review "reflects the summary of medical equipment performance data as reported by physician offices, clinics, IDNs, inpatient facilities, and applicable healthcare agencies. The medical equipment ratings reflect data collected over the past 13 months (October 15, 2007 - November 15, 2008).
When evaluating vendors and their KLAS scores, it is important to understand what the market is capable of delivering, as some market segments perform better than others. For the 2008 "Mid-Term Performance Review", the highest performing medical equipment market segment was Computed Tomography (CT) - 64-slice+; the lowest was Smart Pumps.
Project Manager
Robert Ellis
This material is copyrighted. Any organization gaining unauthorized access to this report will be liable to compensate KLAS for the full retail price. Please see the KLAS DATA USE POLICY for information regarding use of this report. © 2024 KLAS Research, LLC. All Rights Reserved. NOTE: Performance scores may change significantly when including newly interviewed provider organizations, especially when added to a smaller sample size like in emerging markets with a small number of live clients. The findings presented are not meant to be conclusive data for an entire client base.