[tiahura]

How about just getting it more established in orthopedic practices so patients aren't required to 1. See ortho for MRI referral 2. schedule mri at imaging facility 3. PAY $750 - $3000 for an MRI 4. Wait to get back into ortho.

I really don't understand why a fetus' heart can be examined for defects, but you can't use it in the office to tell me if my labrum is torn?

[XorNot]

Why in the heck was this comment downvoted? Because that was exactly my thought reading the article: the mind machine interface stuff is weird (and fMRI blood flow is never going to achieve a lot it is a blunt tool which this is related to).

But high resolution imaging of blood flow? That's a pretty great medical diagnostic tool if you can make it more available and cheaper.

[tiahura]

Additionally, as an ambulance chaser who looks at medical bills all day, people don't realize how much of the zombie medical debt out there is from scummy ERs (HCA etc) doing 2 or 3 pointless MRIs at $5k a pop.