4. Gadgets and gizmos aplenty. Many of the products at RSNA showed how technological advances on the consumer electronics side are slowly but surely making their way into health care — by no means a new trend, but one that's rapidly accelerating and making machines sleeker, smaller and more efficient. For example, Samsung’s flat panel detectors carried over TFT technology already used in its retail products to increase image quality while lowering dose, while Sony, which dominates 80 percent of the market share for ultrasound recorders, leveraged its consumer electronics technology to release a new model of its self-proclaimed world's smallest digital ultrasound printer — the UP-D897.

5. Ultrasound front and center. Not only did Konica Minolta announce that it’s throwing its hat in the ultrasound market for the first time ever with the release of its Sonimage P3 hand-held ultrasound device, and not only did Samsung debut an expanded ultrasound family of products to further signal its commitment to the diagnostic imaging market — it's also on the minds of breast cancer experts looking to use it for the first time as a dense-breast screening tool with GE's Invenia Automated Breast Ultrasound System. In short, ultrasound is the modality of the moment because it hits all the sweet spots for health care administrators: it's low-dose, cost efficient, and reimbursable.



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