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Digital hjemmerehabilitering etablert på rekordtid

2020-08-10

Nesten 150 pasienter var under rehabilitering på LHL-sykehuset på Gardermoen da Norge stengte i mars. I løpet av én dag ble alle sendt hjem for å forhindre COVID-19 spredning. Løsningen ble digital hjemmerehabilitering i samarbeid med Siemens Healthineers.

Hjertepasienter fikk digital oppfølging hjemmefra

Cardiac care for athletes

Cardiovascular care for athletes presents various complexities. While athletic training and regular exercise generally bolster cardiovascular wellness, they may also increase the risk of sudden cardiac arrest.

How one smart interface saves time and leads to smoother processes

2023-09-01

More efficient service management for imaging systems at St. Jansdal

Save 30 minutes—a thousand times over

2023-04-25

Maintenance? Repair? Incident? The more medical devices that are in use, the more important it is to have all insights available in a single system - teamplay Fleet Connect

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 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

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.

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.

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