How Can a Portable X-Ray System Work for Your Medical Office?

Many medical facilities are facing budget cuts and tough times due to the country's economic downturn, and thus they are looking for ways to increase profitability. While many medical offices have radiology rooms, not all utilize portable x-ray equipment. By adding a portable x-ray system to your complete line of services offered, you can improve your clinic's bottom line while at the same time improving patient care.

portable x-ray machines function in the same way as stationary digital imaging systems. The only difference is that the portable units are compact and lightweight enough to fit inside vehicles and be lifted and moved around on specially designed wheeled carts.

You will discover that high-end digital imaging systems are available in portable models. They are often utilized with an on-site workstation, and may even be connected to your home office via a wireless Internet connection or to a printer if you need to produce a hard copy of the digital images. This flexibility built into the systems allows you to visit your patients nearly anywhere they are located, take the digital medical images needed, look at the digital images to enhance their quality and determine if others need to be taken, and then you can send those images back to your home office for further study or as referrals to consulting physicians. In this way, you can essentially provide the same great patient care to patients that cannot come to your office, whether they are athletes in a sports arena, or those in a nursing home, or even those on a cruise ship far from home, or for veterinary practices that offer a mobile unit.

There are several brands of portable x-ray equipment that are available. Min-Xray, Source Ray, GE AMX4 and JPI all offer the high resolution digital images that you demand, but also offer unique ways to customize the systems so that they meet your practice's specialized needs more fully. Many weigh less than 100 pounds, but are durable for use. These portable units bring to you a laser scanner that is filmless, then save the digital images to erasable cassettes and phosphor plates, and finally allow you to view the images on your portable workstation.

Medical digital imaging distributors can tell you what the latest is for portable x-ray machines suited to your area of specialization, and that will be compatible with your existing x-ray equipment at your home office.