Micro-X awarded first supply agreement with a major US healthcare provider

Adelaide-based X-ray technology company Micro-X has entered into a supply agreement with an unnamed US with “over 700 healthcare facilities” to provide the Rover Plus mobile radiology system.

According to a statement on Wednesday, Micro-X’s customer is one of the “largest and most established” healthcare organisations in the US, with “a nationwide network of hospitals, surgical centres, and outpatient facilities”.

It is its first supply agreement with a major healthcare provider in that country.

The news follows an open tender for mobile radiology systems by the customer and a successful in-hospital evaluation of the Rover Plus. The machine weighs around 105 kilograms, can run without mains power for up to seven hours, and “can image any patient size or body part.”

Micro-X CEO Kingsley Hall said the company was “extremely pleased” with the initial supply agreement with the healthcare organisation, which treats “over 8.5 million patients” per year.

The Australian company worked with the customer for almost a year to earn its trust and demonstrate the value of Rover, it said.

“The global healthcare market is generally conservative, typically relying on well established brands and hesitant to procure critical medical equipment from new vendors,” added Hall.

“We see this as the key step in the execution of our commercial objective of establishing Micro-X as a medical imaging vendor, starting with Rover Plus and growing into a future of CT.” 

The news follows progress in the US market – where Micro-X has a presence in the city of Seattle – including a contract with ARPA-H announced in December and valued at up to $25 million to develop a micro-sized full body CT scanner.

Micro-X invented a new technique to generate X-rays utilising a carbon nanotube array, allowing much smaller x-ray tubes and devices containing them. Its NEX (Nano-X) technology is being pursued in other applications, including airport security screening and stroke detection.

Picture: credit Micro-X

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