 Welcome, once again, to one of the MRI Newsletter's three public issues. Every April, August and December the MRI Newsletter's feature articles are available to all, including those who receive only the complimentary version of the MRI Newsletter. If it's not hot enough outside where you live, you've just received the hottest free ticket around!Have you been following our monthly "Forward to a Friend" promotion? July's winner is Dennis Escobar of Florida, USA. Dennis forwarded along the MRI Newsletter with colleagues four times and was picked to win a free full-access subscription for the rest of 2007! You can win a full access subscription too. Just use the forward feature at the foot of this email to be automatically entered. Look at the 'Share The News' section below for all the details.
As this issue is a full-access edition, there has never been a better time than now to forward this copy of the newsletter to colleagues you think would benefit from information on MRI suite planning, safety and efficiency. Go to the 'Share The News' section below for all the details and send it to your friends, colleagues, anyone you think woudl benefit from information on MRI safety, operations and facilities.
This month, in addition to opening up the feature articles to our complimentary subscribers, we're also offerng a link to a long-hidden video's page on our website. The videos page isn't linked from anywhere on the main www.MRI-Planning.com website, but you can get to it now from the corresponding feature article on the right...
As always, please contact us if you have questions about anything you read in the newsletter, or if we can be of any assistance to you.
Tobias Gilk
Junk Architects, PC
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Special Public Access Article
New MRI Design Guide
Part I of II
By Robert Junk, AIA, AHRA and Tobias Gilk
A bottle of Bordeaux or single-malt scotch. Antique family heirlooms. The closeness of life-long friends. Some things just get better with age. However, if you use this logic to try and unload your Betamax VCR player, your 5.25-inch computer diskettes from college, the pile of vinyl ‘Tony Orlando’ records uncovered from spring cleaning at your parent’s house… well, good luck to you. Some things just don’t age gracefully and MRI technology is one of them.
Click here to be taken to the full article.
Special Public Access Article
DRA vs. Demographics:
Why MRI Comes Out Smelling Sweet.
By Tobias Gilk
“The reports of MRI’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.” (Apologies to Mark Twain)
Lately it has been popular to be Chicken Little, proclaiming that the revenue sky is falling all around MRI. Taken at face value, it would appear that diagnostic imaging, and particularly MRI, is on its deathbed, thanks to the reimbursement cuts initiated by the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA). The mourners are gathering, the buzzards circulating overhead and we’re about to put MRI six-feet under.
But wait! What’s that on the horizon?...
Click here to be taken to the full article.
Special Public Access Article
The Secret MRI Safety Video Page.
By Tobias Gilk
 As far as secrets go, it’s not anywhere close to, ‘Honey, I’ve been dating your best friend for years.” Nonetheless, it’s time for us to come clean. We’ve been hiding something from you.
Ever wanted to see what a MRI looks like when it blows up? Every wanted to really see the force an MRI exerts on ferromagnetic materials? Ever been curious about just how much damage a missile accident could cause? Well here’s your opportunity.
Click here to be taken to the full article.
Articles In The Works
In the upcoming months we will be sharing articles with you on a number of topics, from tools that are immediately applicable, to strategies that will help your facility on into the future. Several planned upcoming articles include:
- Lighting In The MRI Suite
- Patient Throughput Efficiency Tips
- New MRI Design Guide, Part II
We Love Hearing From You!
Feel free to contact us with any questions or comments on the articles or issues you'd like to see covered.
MRI-Planning
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Kansas City, MO 54105
816-472-7722
MRI_Expert@MRI-Planning.com
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