Medical Imaging "Downtime"

We love the phrase 'downtime' in society today. We think that it refers to good things about taking a moment to relax. But a patient doesn't want his doctor relaxing on the job. And in the world of medical imaging, 'downtime' refers to the very negative situation of having medical imaging equipment become non-functioning for a period of time. The problem for many medical imaging centers is that computers won't go down completely. They will remain somewhat functioning but will slow down considerably. But it's not considered a "broken" machine and therefore may not be covered by service contracts. This decreases the productivity in the doctor's office and causes harm to patients. Luckily there are several things that medical imaging centers can do to make sure that they don't suffer from this kind of downtime. Three methods of defeating downtime can be found here for doctors and care providers interested in this problems. Ideally, patients will never have to concern themselves with this issue because it will be taken care of by the medical imaging team before it impacts them. Question of the Day: What can be done about downtime of medical imaging equipment? photo link