Get Your X-ray or Ultrasound Test at Home
By: Charlotte Ames
Updated: May 24, 2012
You usually to go to a hospital or a clinic to get an X-ray, but you may not need to even leave your home. Skip the registration desk and the waiting room and have the imaging equipment and the technician come to you.
Tammy Hock's been an X-ray technician for 29 years. Two-and-a-half years ago, she started Digital Mobile X-Ray, which performs X-rays, echocardiograms, ultrasounds, EKGs and vascular studies in homes and facilities such as nursing homes.
She and her X-ray technicians are headquartered in the Altoona area, but cover a 50 mile radius . "It's very easy," she says. "Weve gone everywhere. We've gone up steps 20 steps. It doesn't matter. We can find a way to get the machine into the home ."
You can have your X-ray sitting at your own kitchen table. Tammy just puts the plate behind you, sets the parameters and pushes the button. Than she takes the information to her office, digitizes it and sends it to a radiologist. She says the results can be at your doctor's office in about an hour.
Digital Mobile X-ray is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and can usually arrive at your house within an hour after being called.
Tammy Hock's been an X-ray technician for 29 years. Two-and-a-half years ago, she started Digital Mobile X-Ray, which performs X-rays, echocardiograms, ultrasounds, EKGs and vascular studies in homes and facilities such as nursing homes.
She and her X-ray technicians are headquartered in the Altoona area, but cover a 50 mile radius . "It's very easy," she says. "Weve gone everywhere. We've gone up steps 20 steps. It doesn't matter. We can find a way to get the machine into the home ."
You can have your X-ray sitting at your own kitchen table. Tammy just puts the plate behind you, sets the parameters and pushes the button. Than she takes the information to her office, digitizes it and sends it to a radiologist. She says the results can be at your doctor's office in about an hour.
Digital Mobile X-ray is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and can usually arrive at your house within an hour after being called.
Charlotte Ames is the area's only local Health Reporter and brings you the latest medical health news weeknights. You can catch Healthcast on WTAJ News at 5:00pm and her Health Headlines report on WTAJ News at 5:30pm.