by
Olga Deshchenko, DOTmed News Reporter | January 19, 2011
From the January 2011 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
ISOs report CT prices trending slightly downward for 2011, while trade-in values seem to be maintaining their strength. “Trade-in values have kept pretty consistent with what the market will bear on the third-third party acquisition side,” said Platinum’s Costa. “Some older equipment continues to lose market value on a trade-in.”
When it comes to purchasing a CT unit, ISOs recommend exploring all the available options for systems and service, as well as carefully analyzing a facility’s “need versus want” for any given scanner.
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“I strongly advise customers during the planning or pre-purchase process to ask and answer the following question, ‘when do we plan on disposing this new piece of equipment?’” Charles Gauthier, general manager of Imaging Services, suggests. “Simply reverse the technology management principles of acquire, utilize, upgrade, re-deploy, dispose and begin with disposal and work the process backward.”
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