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• Cost of operating an imaging department US hospitals and health centers spends ~$118 B/yr on
imaging; 83% of that is spent on image acquisition, which is
dominated by operational cost almost entirely in the unregulated space.
Product Class Actual R&D FDA regulatory Total cost concept % cost due to FDA FDA time from 1st
costs ($M) costs ($M) to FDA approval communication to
($M) approval (months)
countries
• Pressure on radiology to 2011 2014 2016 2018
0%
• More robustly justify its ~20%
30% 50%
Image
Reading as a Radiology as Diagnosis as
No outsourcing acquisition
service a service a service
as a service