Even the best artists (scam artists included) slip sometimes - they are human, after all. Let's take a listen to what the CEO has to say in the Nanox "vision" video released in late November ahead of RSNA 2020:
"Our mission is to democratize medical imaging, to make it way more available. There are simply not enough machines today - it is too expensive - expensive to buy, expensive to maintain, expensive to operate, and therefore not very practical." (starting at 47s)
So, medical imaging is not practical and accessible today?
Here is what he wrote in his March 30, 2020 blog post:
In Israel, as in practically every country in the world, we have a real shortage of [COVID-19] testing kits. Lung scans on the other hand are accessible, cheap, and the results are immediate - a critical factor in patient outcomes and in preventing the spread of the infection.
He can't have it both ways. Chest (or lung) radiographs represent the majority, about 40%, of all imaging procedures performed worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (Communicating Radiation Risks in Paediatric Imaging, page 16). The CEO states that they are accessible, cheap, and with immediate results in practically every country in the world. So, it seems there are enough medical imaging machines, they are not expensive, and they are easy to operate and quite practical, no? Poof goes Nanox vision!
In his blog post, he also states that Nanox machines
can be installed not only in medical facilities but also in offices and even retail locations, so people don’t need to drive hours to get to a scanning machine.
But Nanox now admits that is not possible - Nanox proposed machines leak radiation - and any potential deployments of those proposed machines, in the unlikely event that they ever become real, is at risk due to:
the inability or unwillingness of potential customers to invest in the required safety infrastructure, including customary X-ray shielding, to allow the Nanox.ARC to be safety[sic] operated (page 17, prospectus)
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