The U.S. diagnostic imaging market is valued at approximately $150 billion in 2025 and encompasses an estimated 600 million or more procedures annually. But where a scan is performed matters enormously — for the patient’s bill, the provider’s bottom line, and the trajectory of healthcare spending. Diagnostic imaging is delivered across four distinct facility types: […]
The diagnostic imaging industry is continuing to see significant technological innovation. Across CT, MRI, and ultrasound, OEMs are bringing innovations to market that don’t just improve image quality — they have the potential to change where, how, and by whom imaging is performed. Three key forces driving this transformation are: the pursuit of higher diagnostic […]
From 2020 to 2023, the number of general x-ray procedures performed in main hospital radiology departments declined 16%, from 88.7 million in 2020, to 74.5 million in 2023 for an overall annualized rate of decline of 4.3%, according to the newly published “IMV 2024 Diagnostic X-Ray Market Outlook Report.” By site type, over the same period, […]
In 2023 compared with 2022, the total volume of positron emission tomography (PET) scans increased 10.2% year over year, according to the newly published IMV 2024 PET Market Summary Report. In 2023, the average number of PET scans per fixed PET site (versus mobile PET) increased 6.7% from 1,401 estimated PET scans per system in 2022 […]
In 2023, nonhospital sites faced more competition compared with hospital-based facilities for oncology-related diagnostic imaging scans, according to IMV’s recently published 2023 Oncology in Diagnostic Imaging Market Outlook Report. For the future outlook factor “Competition with other imaging providers in our area is reducing the number of oncology-related patients scanned at our facility,” nonhospital sites […]