to the masses and is useful in family medicine and other healthcare settings, including a growing export market.

"There is definitely a big shift in the marketplace getting away from whole body DEXAs of the spine or hip to these smaller, compact machines," said Kuldip Ahluwalia, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Alara, Inc., Fremont, CA. "Two years ago, I got calls from people who said they were looking for a 'real' DEXA. Now they are asking why the big boys [large OEMs] aren't talking about [lower-cost technology]. My rallying cry is: 'For what you pay for a service contract on a whole body DEXA, you can buy my machine.' Our retail is under $13,000."

"Like every bone density test, it is one of the arrows in the quiver of the M.D. to help make a decision about how to treat a patient," said Christopher R. Mitchell, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer at Alara. "We felt that if the machine was compact, easy to use and less expensive, it could go in the primary care physician's office or the OB/GYN as part of a standard health workup."
"In the future we will see many more primary care physicians taking on BMD testing," GE's Andreasen affirmed. "They are at the forefront of healthcare and they see patients first. So it makes a lot of sense for the physician to say: along with your mammogram and pap smear, you also need to have your bones tested. That would be our dream come true."

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DOTmed Registered Bone Densitometers Equipment Sales and Service Companies
Names in boldface are Premium Listings.

Domestic
David Denholtz, BoneDensitometers.com, FL
DOTmed Certified/100
Jenny Marshall, UCI, FL
Bob Serros, Amber Diagnostics, Inc., FL
John Cline, Tritech Services, Inc., KY
Davyn McGuire, Med Exchange International, Inc., MA
DOTmed Certified
John Gladstein, Medical Device Depot, MD
Krista Kotrla, Block Imaging International, Inc., MI
Jeffrey Rubinoff, Complete Medical Services, MI
Mark Hennessy, Southern Winds Int. Med., NC
Mark Samii, DMS Health Group, ND
Robert Manetta, Nationwide Imaging Services, Inc., NJ
DOTmed Certified/100
Marc Todd, Longevity LLC, NY
DOTmed Certified
Leon Gugel, Metropolis International, NY
DOTmed Certified/100
John Kollegger, Bay Shore Medical, LLC, NY
DOTmed 100
Desmond Johnson, DEXAScanners, Inc., TN
Courtney Lane, Innovative X-ray Services LLC, TX
Saulo Waisenberg, Selcon Business Solutions LLC, WA
Mark Schiferl, Schiferl System Resources, Inc., WI
Don Settergren, Inside Outside Sales, LLC, WI

International
David Lapenat, ANDA Medical, Canada
DOTmed Certified
Gautam Sehgal, Ads Diagnostic Limited, India
DOTmed 100
Haitham Khoury, MEDMACK I T E, Syria
Rienthong Nanna, Mongkutwattana Hospital, Thailand
Barbaros Bulent Temiz, BBTEK TIP CIHAZLARI, Turkey
DOTmed Certified

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