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Biotech / Medical : IMAT - ultrafast tomography for coronary artery disease -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: robert scheb who wrote (2725)	10/19/1998 11:05:00 AM
From: Bruce Rozenblit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3725

It appears that a pattern is emerging. There seems to be several chains of heart diagnostic centers opening up around the country that will feature Ultrafast CT. There is one in Florida, Lifetest (If they can ever come up with the money to buy HeartScan) and now New York. That tell me the existing medical establishment is still strongly resisting the technology and medical people with an entrepreneurial spirit are the ones that want to use it. Politics is therefore still a big marketing problem. I've always felt that HeartScan couldn't work because there was no existing patient base to feed the machines. If cardiac doctors buy them and plug their patients and into them, the independent centers stand a much better chance to be successful.