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You’ve done the research, sorted through the proposals, presented the budgets, and selected the right mobile lab vendor for your facility – the hardest part should be over, right? I can’t speak for everyone else, but when you choose to work with Modular Devices, that’s where your duty ends and ours begins.WHAT’S THE TIMEFRAME FOR LEASING MOBILE CATH LABS?The timeframe for lab installation will highly depend on the hospital’s schedule. One of our goals is to provide a seamless experience for our clients, so we do our best to accommodate even the tightest of deadlines.For example, recently a full service hospital in Show Low, Arizona reached out to us after a roof leak destroyed their x-ray system. Because we keep a stocked fleet of Mobile Cath Labs, we had a mobile lab ready and on the road the day we got the call. Cases were back on schedule within three days.But there are also instances in which a facility has to think and plan for a project many months in advance, especially when dealing with program expansions, strict budgets and tough regulations. The advantage to this advanced planning is that clinicians and lab managers can select from our full inventory of systems.When addressing an emergent need our lab inventory may be a bit limited, especially during busy times. But if there’s at least one or two (or more) month’s lead-time, a lab manager or clinician will be able to browse Modular Devices’ widest selection of systems from our fleet of mobile and modular labs.

With mobile and tablet use continuing to skyrocket, it is essential that consumers be able to access all of a website’s features across multiple devices – desktop, tablet and smartphone. That’s why Modular Devices teamed up with Culture-Powered Marketing and Web Design agency SmallBox to develop a new website that caters to these changing needs.

MDI recently got a call that we receive every so often – yet it is one that always amazes us. A hospital fired their interim lab vendor because the company promised products that they could not deliver.More critical than burning any professional bridges is that the over-promising but un-delivering vendor leaves the hospital in a scramble to find a last-minute replacement. I suppose things like this happen in other industries too, but when we get these calls it’s rather alarming because in addition to affecting facility operations, the lack of deliveryaffects the health and, potentially, lives of the hospital’s patients.WHY DOES IT HAPPEN?Typically, when we look into why these situations happen, it may be because the provider knowingly sold a particular product or medical imaging technology that they do not own. Or it may be because the vendor only has a small fleet with older technology – but not what today’s customers need or want. In an industry as niche as mobile and modular cath labs, there are also vendors who are simply attempting to broker any deal they can to stay afloat.When a potential client calls vendors like these, the only way the vendor can “stay in the game” is to claim to have what the customer wants – even though they don’t. It’s crazy to think, but even in the realm of health services, providers sometimes resort to the old bait-and-switch by brokering or delivering something other than what was promised with hopes that the customer will accept it. (Take a look at how MDI came to the rescue to help out a client in this situation in our post from 12/4/2012: Success Story: Valley Baptist Hospital.)

Over the past few years the Electrophysiology (EP) market has been experiencing strong growth primarily due to the improvements in technology and in newer diagnostic and treatment options for cardiac arrhythmias. As the field of EP continues to grow, hospitals are faced with challenges when deciding how best to either start-up or expand their EP service line.

X-ray Service Technician Eric Zion joined the Modular Devices team in 2011. With a degree in biomedical electronics, Eric has grown into one of MDI’s most relied on mobile and modular lab service technicians, out in the field and here at our Indianapolis headquarters.

Natural disasters, such as the tornadoes that tore through the heartland last week, often leave entire communities devastated and reeling. In the aftermath of disaster we usually see neighbors, families and even strangers coming together to provide food, clothing, a place to sleep, and other provisions to those in need.But what about the medical facilities needed to treat and care for patients – those who were injured in the disaster, and those who previously required care? What happens when a facility is forced to halt operations, disrupting the care of patients? Or worse yet, what happens when such a facility is decimated?