New equipment guides from DOTmed

DOTmed.com, Inc., the Internet's largest marketplace for new and used medical equipment and parts, has introduced DOTmed New Equipment Guides in print and online. The guides provide at-a-glance profiles of current specific modalities from all major medical equipment manufacturers. They debuted in the May edition of DOTmed Business News and online in DOTmed's popular, interactive and newly enhanced Virtual Trade Show. DOTmed New Equipment Guides increase the company's appeal to the important provider audience as they can now easily access a wealth of medical device information. Users can also shop for their equipment at DOTmed where major OEMs such as GE Healthcare, Carestream Health and STERIS Corporation have WebStores, with Siemens Healthcare and Philips Healthcare Webstores opening soon.    

"DOTmed New Equipment Guides will help those involved in the buying process to narrow down their decision more quickly and determine the right equipment fit for their facility," said DOTmed President, Phil Jacobus. "DOTmed's role as an information source has grown considerably over the past few years. Providing OEM information to our users seemed like a natural progression. It fits with our mission of remaining the leading medical equipment marketplace on the Web."

Each guide introduced is tied to the respective Industry Sector Report published monthly in DOTmed Business News. The first three DOTmed New Equipment Guides — Bone Densitometers, Breast imaging and Ultrasound — appear in the May "Women's Health" issue. June will introduce guides for PET, PET/CT, Stress Tests and SPECT, with three to four new guides on average planned every month.

DOTmed Equipment Guides are significantly augmented online at DOTmed's Virtual Trade Show where more comprehensive lists of makes and models are available. They provide a high level of interactivity where users enter a data-rich world in which thousands of models are listed. Each listing features a product photograph if available, a product description, and specifications. Visitors to the Virtual Trade Show can also upload equipment models to DOTmed Equipment Guides, if they note a model is missing from a given category, or add information to an existing listing.

"Virtually every shopping site on the Internet makes it easy for visitors to compare different makes and models of a given product -- whether it's coffee makers or ultrasound equipment," noted Matt Ulman, DOTmed's CTO. "The Virtual Trade Show now does that too, so you can see up to four models side-by-side and compare the specifications from one to another."