Almost 37 thousand diagnostic imaging equipment present in Italian public and private hospitals are no longer in line with the state of the art of existing technology. This is the data that emerges from the Confindustria Medical Devices Installed Park Observatory which highlights a rather homogeneous situation across the national territory. The most recent data were published in a survey last February, carried out in collaboration with the Italian Society of Medical and Interventional Radiology and the Italian Association of Clinical Engineers. 92% of conventional mammography machines are more than 10 years old, 96% of CT scans with less than 16 slices, 91% of conventional fixed radiographic systems, 80.8% of conventional mobile radiographic units, 30.5% of MRIs closed at 1-1.5 tesla.
For most of them, this is too high an age compared to the physiological turnover made necessary by the aging of devices and the availability of new technologies. For example, according to the survey, 42% of CT scans present in Italy have now exceeded the turnover period, the share reaches 54% for magnetic resonance imaging, 95% for conventional mammograms and 35% for digital ones.
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