"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. 

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

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.

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.

Hospital Management Asia speaks to Mr. Kon Gryllakis, Head, Diagnostics at Siemens Healthineers Asia Pacific on the role that COVID-19 serology testing - the testing for antibodies against the COVID-19 virus – plays in measuring efficacy of vaccine response, and how serology testing can drive future public health policies.