HealthMatters

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.

Om snel en efficiënt cardiologische ultrasoundstudies te kunnen uitwisselen, nam HartKliniek afgelopen zomer het klinisch datamanagementplatform syngo.share van Siemens Healthineers in gebruik. “Alle voorwaarden voor verdere groei en uitbreiding zijn nu ingevuld.”

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.

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. 

With tens of millions of COVID-19 cases worldwide and more than a million dead from the disease, global healthcare has assumed unprecedented importance today. What lessons have already been learned, and what needs to be done moving forward?

A century ago, the British novelist E.M. Forster distilled his vision of a moral life into two simple words he used as the epigraph for his masterful novel Howards End: “Only connect.”

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been part of routine medical practice for years. The big tubes produce fascinating images. No wonder that MRI is seen as the crowning glory of diagnostics. But how exactly does it work? What’s so special about it? We answer twelve questions to give a better idea.

Blindness was once a major problem for people all over India: Care was difficult to access in the early stages of ophthalmological complications. Listen to Aravind Srinivasan, MD, and Chief Medical Officer at the Aravind Eye Hospital in Chennai discuss with Christoph Zindel about how this has changed, even in times of COVID-19.

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.

The development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an exciting story of innovation spanning four decades – if not several centuries – and two Nobel prizes. But the fact that MRI scanners are now used in patient care all over the world is also thanks to industrial research and development.

From plain black-and-white images of individual anatomical structures to virtual 3D renderings of the whole body in space, X-ray imaging has come a long way in the past 125 years, largely thanks to digitalization. Read more.