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How can healthcare providers continue to offer high-value care in the midst of a pandemic?

2021-02-22

Zwanger-Pesiri, NY's largest radiology What lessons can be learned from their example?

Transforming care delivery

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.

Virtual congresses of superlatives: Meet a new generation of intelligent imaging

2020-12-10

In this unusual year, which has seen us shaken by the effects of a global pandemic in so many ways, the RSNA congress opened its virtual doors for the first time from November 29 to December 4. Working in close cooperation with the event, Siemens Healthineers simultaneously conducted its very own Shape 21 Forum.

The use of the POC middleware system decreases workload for nurses to spend more time in patient care.

The Optimization Between Nursing Workload and Patient Care

2020-12-09

The collection and management of critical data for diagnostic decision is an essential task of daily routine of nurses. This demands a lot of time what is then missing for an optimal patient satisfaction. At the Bumrungrad International Hospital an innovative technology offers nurses a relief in workload to spend more time in patient care and safety.

Insights

How Finland is leading the digital healthcare revolution

2020-12-07

In our new episode with Managing Board member Christoph Zindel, Päivi Sillanaukee, MD, Director General at the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, explains how the healthcare model in Finland operates, what kind of infrastructure it requires, and how this actually encouraged digital innovation from its inception.

Philipp Grätzel von Grätz

The MRI at 50 – what lies ahead?

2020-12-03

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the gold standard of imaging diagnostics in many medical fields. But it is still far from always being readily available – even where it would be the best option. Technological progress is rapid. The next generation MRI could look very different.