Sharing his thoughts on big ideas for 2021 in his second LinkedIn article, CEO Bernd Montag discusses the inflection point for consistent digitalization in healthcare. The COVID-19 pandemic has moved the healthcare sector rapidly toward a much-needed next step: the expectation of "digital first" in healthcare. 

If medical historians could look into the distant future at the effects of COVID-19, they would identify the clear impact of three trends in particular that we are already seeing in the healthcare industry. In this LinkedIn article, CEO Bernd Montag shares big ideas that could now gain momentum.

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.

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.