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Skytron Site Visit
Recently Josh Mayfield, our Director of Corporate Accounts, and I visited Skytron’s head office in Grand Rapids, Michigan. There Mr. David Mehney, Skytron’s president and CEO, shared his vision of the company with us. He believes Skytron is focus on helping providers address cost by providing diverse products with lower cost of ownership. This is something that is supported by MD Buyline own data. Our budget planner has shown Skytons to have a lower cost of ownership compared to the market averages while providing competitive reliability. Read More »
Room Disinfection Technology: A Growing Trend
Motivated by recent legislative directives, the healthcare industry has started looking to control costs while still maintaining value. While these [...] Read More »
Karl Storz Site Visit
Recently I, along with fellow analyst Casie Leiby, took a trip to El Segundo, California to visit the Karl Storz [...] Read More »
BioDrain: A New Option for Fluid Waste Management
In such a consolidated market, systems such as Dorn0ch and Stryker Neptune have been the mainstays in fluid waste management. [...] Read More »
The Election and Medical Technology: Assessing the Impact
The reason we vote is to make our opinions heard on pending challenges. The Medical Device Excise Tax and the [...] Read More »
Renal Denervation
I often get two types of questions when I talk about emerging health care technologies. Clinicians ask about revolutionary new [...] Read More »
Health Insurance Mandate’s Impact
Well the Supreme Court finally ruled on the individual health insurance mandate. For such a politically charged topic, I am [...] Read More »
3D Parametric Mapping – Worth the Investment?
It’s amazing how far ultrasound has come. First it was 3D, then 4D, and now we have 3D parametric mapping. [...] Read More »
TeleStroke: Imaging at Your Fingertips
As we take time to celebrate National Stroke Awareness Month, we can also recognize some important new achievements in technology [...] Read More »
Reprocessing: A New Phase in Consumable Savings
It has been more than 10 years since the practice of reprocessing disposable medical devices first emerged. In its early [...] Read More »