Dicom Solutions Offers MetriScan From Alara, Inc.
In the past, primary care physicians have been at a disadvantage when it comes to bone mineral density testing during a routine office exam. A common test for bone density is the Central DEXA, or dual energy x-ray absorptiometry, which until this time had to be scheduled at a hospital imaging center, making for a time delay for test results as well as inconvenience to patients. This has now changed with the wonderful new bone densitometer from Alara, Inc., available from Dicom Solutions.
Physicians now have a front-line bone densitometer diagnostic tool that will help them identify patients who may have low bone mineral density and be at risk for osteoporotic fractures. This bone density machine is fast and easy to learn to use, and has a footprint so small that it will easily fit on a desktop.
The bone density machine provides very fast test results. After you quickly input patient data, your patient lays his or her hand on a scanning plate, and the bone densitometer scans the hand at the lightning speed of less than one second. After this, the bone density equipment calculates and displays the patient's T and Z scores, and prints them out for you. Under hospital testing conditions, this exam would be time intensive, but with the bone density machine from Dicom Solutions you can have your test results in as little as one minute, with only an additional minute needed to print out the report.
Accuracy comes built into this bone density equipment. Automatic calibration checks are inherent in its design, offering a total clinical precision error of less than one percent. Patient safety and comfort are also taken into account with the new bone density machine, which requires no gel or patient preparation, causes no pain to the patient and uses a radiation dose of less than five percent of a dental x-ray.
Because of its revolutionary speed and ease, this bone densitometer makes quick routine bone mineral density examinations very possible for primary care physicians. This allows you to monitor at-risk patients much more often, enabling better patient care to occur. Convenient bone density equipment such as this provides tests that are covered by Medicare, allowing your at-risk patients to have the recommended biannual testing.
Dicom Solutions, a premiere medical imaging distributor and systems integrator, is ready to answer your questions about the new bone density machine and make the process of introducing in-house bone density testing at your medical office quick and easy.
