2. Bedside MRI Scans
What It Can Do: Make MRIs More Portable
Discovered By: Hyperfine Inc. (With Input From Yale Medicine)
Est. Cost: $100,000*
There are many reasons why a patient might need to have an MRI performed on them, including, but not limited to, assessing the severity of a stroke. As a result of the immobile nature of these magnetic imaging machines, there has been little choice but to move patients, who are experiencing serious health issues, from room to room, wasting time and, possibly, agitating their condition further.
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The Swoop MRI is a portable MRI machine, created by Hyperfine Inc., that has already gained FDA and Health Canada’s approval for use. With a modest price of $100,000, the cost of a Swoop MRI machine is only about 10% of its larger, non-portable predecessors – which, one would hope, should show an equal decrease in the medical fees incurred by patients.