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Healthcare services and Helium

Healthcare services depends on helium.

Healthcare services (industry) and Helium (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 4 of 5 · Helium → Healthcare services

2 of the enterprise types in Healthcare services depend on helium; for the most dependent, it rates 4 out of 5 on criticality.

  • 2 enterprise types depend on it
  • 4 of 5 highest criticality

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Medical equipment and imaging suppliers: Liquid helium cools MRI magnets (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Diagnostic laboratories and imaging centres: MRI scanners in imaging centres (criticality 3 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.