Market Analysis: Mobile Imaging Trailers

Mobile imaging trailers provide an alternative to fixed imaging equipment. They are available from a variety of third-party companies, who install major manufacturers’ imaging equipment into mobile trailers, complete with scan rooms and workstations, and sometimes even a staff of managers and technicians. The market is driven by limited budgets, the high price of static equipment and those facilities that need to remain operational while remodeling an imaging department.

Rental units are popular among smaller hospitals with limited imaging needs. Some companies offer circulating trailers, which rotate among small facilities that might not otherwise be able to provide imaging services. Those trailers can help increase access to imaging to under served populations in rural areas. That access can help generate revenue for hospitals in rural areas as well, providing a benefit to both providers and patients.

But the mobile imaging customer base is expanding to include larger facilities. Even large facilities have reined in spending in the last few years, and mobile and modular units provide a more cost-effective alternative to expanding the facility. Trailers allow those large facilities to invest in newer, high-tech digital equipment without having to expand their building. In that case, mobile trailers provide the new technology in a matter of weeks, rather than the months it might take to install an imaging room in the facility. That short time frame provides a particular benefit for large hospitals in highly populated areas witnessing high patient volume.

An added benefit to that is...

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