Diagnostic Imaging - predictions for 2024!

Just a few of the trends I can see in 2024 when I look into my crystal ball:

AI

• Market consolidation - as AI vendors funds/reserves diminish and sales lag expectations there will be an increase in mergers, acquisitions, market exits and pivots.

• Productivity - AI vendors in response to global shortages of imaging professionals will increasingly focus on developments that accelerate image acquisition times for radiographers/technicians and reduce reporting and audit time for radiologists/clinicians.

• Cost of data to increase - healthcare providers will increasingly seek to unlock commercial value from structured and unstructured clinical data.

Imaging

• Specifications becoming commoditised - in most modalities the functionality of equipment and image quality is so similar that there is relatively little additional value in paying for the latest or new. Providers will now instead focus on workflow, productivity, uptime, and ecosystems when selecting and valuing equipment.

• Productivity tensions - equipment vendors (and AI developers) will increasingly focus on hardware and software that enables providers to conduct more imaging exams with fewer technicians. However this will fuel tension with professional bodies regarding increasing workloads on existing staff and safety. Also new bottlenecks will emerge as image acquisition capacity increases faster than reporting capacity.

• Increased use of CT - improved systems with reduced radiation dosage, for example whole heart one-beat imaging, will lead to re-writing of clinical pathways in the US and internationally to recommend increasing use of CT.

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