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State-of-the-art cardiology in rural Portugal 

Learn how a provincial hospital turned into one of Portugal's most renowned centers for heart disease. And why distance doesn’t matter.

 

Cardiac health: In great shape but close to death

"I was extremely lucky," says Frank – and it's not a visit to the casino that he's referring to. It’s a life-saving check-up. 

 

Imaging in a heartbeat

At a leading hospital in Lucerne, Switzerland, radiology specialists are virtually connected with technologists and patients within a network of affiliated hospitals. Thanks to the new software for remote scanning assistance, knowledge transfer is fast, easy, and cost-effective. An additional benefit is that patients have a shorter waiting time for their scan appointments – which has turned out to be especially useful in these times of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 
Patient experience

Patient experience in the times of COVID-19

In this Innovation Talk, Dr. Christina Triantafyllou looks at patient experience during the pandemic from three different angles: patient perspective, the view of medical personnel, and the role of digital technology in healthcare.

Patient experience
Patient Experience

Bringing innovation to the patient pathway

What shapes the patient experience today and how the decision-making processes behind treatments might be different and more complex than we envisioned in the past. In this Innovation Talk, Isabel Nieto Alvarez will take you on a journey of transforming the patient care pathway and point out how patient experience will evolve in the future.
Patient experience

Retired X-ray systems brought back into operation during the pandemic 

 2021-02-22

Good teamwork and high system quality enabled Karolinska University Hospital and Siemens Healthineers to bring four decades-old mobile X-ray systems back into operation to provide lung imaging during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gerhard Simon, MD, a radiologist and nuclear medicine physician, engaged a radiology technologist from Siemens Healthineers.

Support at the right moment

 2021-02-16
In response to the pressures of finding sufficient radiology technologists, Garmisch-Partenkirchen Hospital, Germany, engaged a technologist from Siemens Healthineers in early March 2020. Gerhard Simon, MD, a radiologist and nuclear medicine physician, believes that this was absolutely the right decision, especially given the COVID-19 pandemic. However, he says that the long-term solution has to be about encouraging more young people to become technologists.

The future of robotics in healthcare

 2021-01-27

When we think of robots assisting in surgical procedures, it still sounds quite futuristic. But to what extent does this remain science fiction and what is today’s reality? Listen to a pioneer in telerobotic interventions, Tejas Patel Chairman and Chief Interventional Cardiologist at Apex Heart Institute in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

This video shows the development of the first 4D CT sequence that adapts to the patient’s breathing in real time.

A sharper focus in radiation therapy planning

 2021-01-18
Internal movement such as breathing presents a major challenge in tumor imaging. Motion artifacts in clinical images can cause difficulties when planning radiotherapy. Watch the video to see how a new intelligent 4D CT algorithm makes it now possible to reduce these artifacts substantially for more precise radiotherapy planning.

CEO Bernd Montag reflects on a year of shadow and light

 2021-01-07

Gratitude for the rays of hope given the darkness of the pandemic and all its effects – this is important to Bernd Montag, CEO of Siemens Healthineers. After all, it goes hand in hand with an awareness of the immense efforts made collectively to meet this challenge. Read the full LinkedIn article.

 

Virtual AACC: Highlights from laboratory diagnostics that have a strong impact on the industry

 2020-12-21

This year's AACC Annual Scientific Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo from December 13 to 17, which took place virtually for the first time in its history, presented highly automated solutions that minimize contact and increase laboratory efficiency and safety. The congress was closely accompanied by the Siemens Healthineers Shape 21 Forum.  

Andrea Lutz

Liver fibrosis: Patients can be at risk of death even without exhibiting symptoms

 2020-12-18

A well-functioning liver is of vital importance. Yet diseases of the liver are among the top five causes of death among the middle-aged in many industrialized countries today. Learn more about the development of liver fibrosis, diagnostic procedures, and how not to get it.

Insights

Cios Spin – Results of Retina 3D for orbita with mesh

Surgery

 2020-12-16
Surgeons were quick to consider using the newly discovered X-rays in the operating theater. However, some technological developments were required before X-rays could become established there. Today, it is impossible to imagine surgery without image-guided interventions and direct surgical control.
In Focus

Smart automation speeds up laboratory diagnostics

 2020-12-11
Benjamin Pollack and his team apply artificial intelligence and deep learning to greatly improve automation in in vitro diagnostics. His inventions have made an important contribution to the Atellica solution, and he is awarded as Siemens Inventor of the Year 2020 in the category Talents.
 

Personalized planning of cardiac resynchronization therapy

 2020-12-11
Tommaso Mansi and his research group developed a digital twin of the heart. It can support the exact placement of electrodes in cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients wth heart failure. For this groundbreaking contribution to precision medicine, Tommaso Mansi is awarded as Siemens Inventor of the Year 2020 in the category Talents.