Aharon Ben-Haim is considered to be somewhat of an icon in the business of refurbishing medical equipment. When he emigrated to the U.S. in 1982, he was already working with Elscint, a manufacturer of imaging equipment, as an instructor to the engineers on how to service the equipment. A few short years later, he decided to move from Boston to Montclair, New Jersey where he started his own company - Dynamic Imaging Services - which services and refurbishes medical equipment, such as CT scanners and SPECT (or gamma) cameras for the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

Most of Ben-Haim's clients are private and new doctors, in fact, most are cardiologists, who are unable to afford brand new equipment. For approximately one-quarter of the price of the manufacturer, Ben-Haim services or refurbishes machinery using original equipment manufacture parts (OEM).

Over the past few years, Ben-Haim's business has increased due to the rise of nuclear cardiologists, who are being trained in radiology. Regular cardiologists, who are usually only trained in internal medicine, "have no clue of nuclear cardiology. They are internists first and are not trained in radiology," says Ben-Haim. "By connecting with me, it affected my business tremendously. It just grew because they started this thing which was a new venture for them."
"There are no 'magic formulas' for success in this business," says Ben-Haim, who holds a Doctorate in Physics. But one major thing he's witnessed over the past 25 years is the advent of computers and how they've changed the business. The nuclear or detector part hasn't changed, but the processing of the image has due to the computer. It's much faster, clearer and cleaner.

As I'm sure you can surmise, with technology moving as fast as it does, the next 25 years will only bring more change; something that Ben-Haim will continue to look forward to.

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