There are many types of flat-panel DRs available on the market today, with different models and configurations having different quality and image effects, and different after-sales services that each manufacturer can provide. And at present some hospitals, especially in remote areas and counties and townships of the lack of digital X-ray machine operation of professionals, little understanding of DR technology, in the face of the complexity of the flat-panel DR market such as the fog to see the flowers. So, how can you make the right judgment, choose a suitable product for their own medical institutions?
Hospitals choose a suitable flat-panel DR, to meet the actual needs of the hospital's department as a starting point, and comprehensively consider the purchase price of the equipment, the product's comprehensive performance, maintenance and use of the cost and other aspects.
Purchase price
Purchase price is one of the first important factors for customers to consider when purchasing a flat panel DR, and plays a key role in the decision-making process of purchasing a flat panel DR in a medical institution. At present, China's flat panel DR market is mainly divided into domestic and imported parts.
Imported brands such as GE, Siemens, Philips and other brands as a representative of these imported flat-panel DR products, most of which are expensive, moving millions of dollars, so that many medical institutions to shy away; domestic brands to Hangzhou Minova, Neusoft, Tianjin Bangsheng and other medical enterprises as a representative of the flat-panel DR equipment to fully meet the needs of the hospital's clinical diagnostic examination and the price is low, part of the domestic flat-panel DR market offer has been as low as 50 percent. DR market offer has been as low as 500,000 or so.
In the procurement of flat-panel DR, if the capital is strong third-class medical institutions can consider purchasing imported products, but for the second-class and the following grass-roots medical institutions, in order to protect the clinical use of the basis, recommended the purchase of more cost-effective domestic DR.
Product performance
In the flat-panel DR purchasing process, the price does not determine everything, but also to fully consider the overall performance of the purchased product. The price is not everything, but the overall performance of the purchased product should be fully considered.
First of all, the flat-panel DR machine should have stable performance characteristics. Its stability depends on the high quality of the parts of the machine and the adaptability between the parts. GE, Siemens, Philips and other imported flat-panel DR parts such as X-ray bulb, X-ray high-voltage generator, filter, flat-panel detector and other basic sources and their own factories, parts and components of the mutual adaptability is high, the failure rate is relatively low, and therefore the price is expensive, and the monopoly of the technology, after-sales service is not perfect; the domestic R & D and manufacturing capacity of many flat-panel DR enterprises is relatively backward, the DR enterprise Manufacturing capacity of many domestic flat-panel DR enterprise R & D capability is relatively backward, DR equipment, key technologies such as flat panel, bulb tube, high-voltage generator and computer post-processing software systems are mainly dependent on imports, so the parts and components of the poor mutual adaptability, prone to failure, the price is relatively low.
In recent years, with the rapid development of science and technology, the domestic emergence of some of the better flat-panel DR manufacturers, such as Hangzhou Minova Medical. Minova has a large professional R & D team, constantly innovating technology, its flat-panel DR has a high cost-effective, perfect after-sales service, low failure rate, and other advantages, and digital image processing system is fast, real-time, high-resolution, the image gray scale, image quality is reliable, and help clinical diagnostic testing. If you buy a domestic DR, we recommend MENOVA brand.
Use and maintenance costs
In fact, the biggest cost of flat-panel DR is not the purchase of becoming, but maintenance and repair costs.
In a flat-panel DR, the highest cost part is the flat-panel detector, accounting for about 70% of the total value of the machine or even more, due to the long time in the X-ray irradiation, flat-panel detector is more prone to corrosion, often more than a hundred thousand dollars, the maintenance cost is high.
Many foreign brands of product parts, the use of maintenance instructions, such as the implementation of the monopoly, and can not be repaired in a timely manner, maintenance costs are expensive at the same time to bring inconvenience to the medical work. Some domestic flat-panel DR manufacturers to purchase finished parts for assembly and cobbled together production, failure, there is no R & D strength of the manufacturer is difficult to solve the problem on-site, each time the maintenance of downtime is long, resulting in serious damage to the interests of the hospital. Hangzhou Minova medical use of independent research and development of technology, equipped with perfect after-sales service, part of the DR detector launched a "lifetime warranty" policy for hospitals and other medical structures to greatly save the use of maintenance costs.
Before purchasing a flat-panel DR, it is recommended that buyers learn more about after-sales service from the manufacturer, such as the warranty period, which parts are warranted, the replacement rate of parts, maintenance time, etc., to minimize maintenance costs.