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This little guy is less than 15 pounds and holds much more than you would think. It does much more than you would think as well. You can use it laterally beside the table and just about anywhere else. Portable? Check. Sitting skull? Check. Pediatric chest? Check. Sunrise knee? Check. Load bearing below the knee? Check. O.R.? Check. It sounds like it’s an all out extremity station? It’s that as well. Inventory is on the way! ORDER TODAY!
If you have yet to hear, J2 has released a new positioning unit for your delicate CR cassettes and expensive DR panels. This unit is portable and guaranteed to open up a new world of possibilities. Try one today!
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Gambling in the United States is a multi-billion dollar industry. In fact, according to the American Gambling Association, in 2007 revenue from legalized gambling in the United States was $92.27 billion. And Americans will gamble on anything they can get their hands on, or should I say, lay their money on. I bet the first person to read this article is a male…any takers? I got 1 to 1 odds! If I were to tell you that you had a 1 in 3 chance that you would: win the jackpot lottery, get a better higher paying career, go on an expense-paid vacation, meet the spouse of your dreams, you would probably like those odds…I mean, they are good odds. Then what if I told you that you had a 1 in 3 chance that: your lunch order would be incorrect, you would get a flat tire, your computer will get a virus, or your favorite team will lose the championship game, all due to the simple fact of poor performance, you probably wouldn’t like those odds…I mean, those are bad odds. And now what if I told you that 1 in 3 radiological exams or retakes are inappropriate and potentially life-threatening due to the poor performing or ineffectiveness of equipment? Read More »
Have you ever been sitting in a meeting, sitting at a conference, sitting on a plane, or sitting in a waiting room and just could not get comfortable in your seat? I think they purposely design those chairs to be the most uncomfortable things to sit on ever. Or have you ever been lying in bed tossing and turning trying to find that perfect “sleep zone of comfort” and no matter what you do, you know you that you are not falling asleep until at least 10 minutes before that alarm sounds? The feeling of being uncomfortable is in itself uncomfortable. People spend countless hours, and dollars, each year trying to find the most comfortable office chair, the most comfortable couch, and the most comfortable bed money can buy.
One of the last places people want to feel uncomfortable is at the doctor’s office during an x-ray exam. With over 300 million medical imaging procedures performed each year in the U.S.; many x-rays are taken because the patient feels discomfort, pain, or suffered injury. For many years radiological technologists (RT’s) have been wanting and waiting for an x-ray cassette holder that provides the versatility and functionality that J2 Medical’s Gymie-R cassette holder can provide them. No patient likes being uncomfortable. And it’s even worse when RT’s regrettably are the persons responsible for putting patients in uncomfortable positions because they had to find a way to “jimmy-rig” the patient AND the cassette holder to TRY and get the correct image. This can often times generate an invalid image because of improper cassette and/or patient positioning and causes the need for retakes with the potential for radiation overexposure over time. The Gymie-R eliminates this entire concept by providing a way for accurate radiographs to be taken each time. Gone are the days of patients being twisted or bent or propped up into improvised patient positioning with foam blocks and wedges. The Gymie-R’s design is to allow RT’s to focus their attention on the patient by allowing RT’s to adjust and position the image receptor into positions never before thought possible. Above the table? Yep! Across the table? Yep! Below the table? Yep, you better believe it! And with the capabilities of holding film, CR, and DR panels the Gymie-R can be utilized across the radiology department. And with the unique clamping mechanism for easy on and easy off, the Gymie-R takes up minimal table space and can be rotated underneath the table when not being utilized.
You may feel like other x-ray cassette holders, with their need for foam blocks or wedges, are that uncomfortable meeting room chair or that lifeless pillow and lumpy bed. They are uncomfortable for RTs to have to utilize and uncomfortable for the patients and need to be tucked away. The Thoughtful design of the Gymie-R will not only improve patient care and comfort, but will increase workflow efficiency as well.
Super Bowl XLV has ended and brought a conclusion to the 2010 NFL football season. It was a great game between two storied franchises. Both the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers are franchises based on winning. Heck, the Super Bowl trophy is named after the former Packers coach Vince Lombardi. And the Pittsburgh Steelers, with their blue-collar, hard-nosed attitude have won six of those Vince Lombardi trophies in eight attempts. The two weeks leading up to the big game were filled with stories of players and the teams themselves both living in the shadow of legends. The Steelers living in the shadow of known 1970′s stars of Bradshaw, Harris, and the Steel Curtain winning four Super Bowls and the current squad looking for three Super Bowl wins in five years. The Packers, trying to live up to the legendary status of Vince Lombardi, Bart Starr, and Brett Farve. But as the saying goes, “The past is the past” and the current teams and the players of Ben Roethlisberger, Troy Polamalu, Aaron Rodgers, and Charles Woodson are writing their own records and reshaping the history of these franchises and the NFL. While radiology is not the NFL, and J2 Medical is not an NFL franchise, J2 Medical is writing their own records and legacy by reshaping the history and future of the radiology industry. Prior to 2010 many facilities were utilizing foam blocks and wedges to contort patients into improvised patient positioning for the purpose of obtaining an image. Often times this led to errors in the image and caused the need for retakes; and putting patients at risk to radiation overexposure over time. Read More »
The word Massachusetts has a lot of “ess” in it. Those “ess” can transfer directly to many, many dollar signs when it comes to the medical imaging industry. MRI’s alone account for $1.5 million to purchase and another $800,000 to operate within the tiny state of Massachusetts. This statistic is evident in that the national average of MRI scans annually in the United States is 26 scans per one million residents. But within the tiny Bay State that same statistic is 42 scans per one million! It would seem that everyone in Massachusetts is recieving an MRI scan in that there are 6.5 million people within the state and there are more MRI units there than servicing the 55 million residents of Canada and Austrailia combined!Prescription drug costs are usually the main topic amongst healhcare costs and are constantly rising throughout the United States. But in Massachusetts medical imaging is the #1 healthcare cost at $2 billion in 2008. This increase is due to the numerous medical imaging facilities throughout the state requiring many unnecessary and potentially harmful scans. These facilities operate using the equation shown as: Patients + more tests and scans = more money in the pockets of the healthcare industry. Numerous studies by experts indicate that of the $100 billion the United States spends on imaging each year, an estimated 1/3 is spent on procedures that are unnecessary. So an astronomical amount of $333 million wasted annually on potentially cancer causing, body damaging image testing.So why is this number so high and how could it be lowered? Massachusetts Secretary of Health and Human Services Judy Ann Bigby applies the Field of Dreams philosphy towards this issue stating, “If you build it, people will come.” She continues, “Part of the reason we have this demand is the general public thinks having an MRI when they have a headache or a lower back pain is a good thing. More is not always better.” Another reason for so many tests is what is referred to as “defensive medicine”; doctors ordering tests to put patient minds at rest.So to put patient and doctor minds’ at ease and to lower individual state and national imaging costs, what if one and only test/scan is necessary to identify the problem? Enter the Gymie-R x-ray cassette holder designed by J2 Medical, LP. The Gymie-R was designed to improve patient positioning, increase workflow, and give radiology technologists freedom to position the image receptor in almost any position, thus lowering the number of image retakes. Therefore the new equation is simple: utilizing the Gymie-R – fewer retakes and scans = lower state and national healthcare costs.
