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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.

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.

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.

CEO Bernd Montag on the inflection point for “digital first” in healthcare

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.

CEO Bernd Montag on acceleration in healthcare trends driven by the pandemic

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.

Patient experience in the times of COVID-19

2021-06-24

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.

Improving patient experience

Bringing innovation to the patient pathway

2021-05-12

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.

Improving patient experience

Healthcare professional holding an ipad in conversation with another person in front of a digital layer symbolizing healthcare data from many data different sources.

Why data integration is essential for delivering high-value care

2021-05-04

Detailing the digital transformation of one hospital this paper investigates the central role of data integration.

Digitalizing healthcare

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.