Search Tag: Siemens Healthineers
Siemens Healthineers: Digital Health Platforms - Capitalizing on Big Data
2021 07 Jul
Modertaor Chris Brow Speakers Manish Marotkar Head Of Platform as a Service Business Siemens Healthineers Xavier Battle Vice President Marketing & Sales at Digital Health Siemens Healthineers Read more
Data Integration and Decision Support Along the Patient Pathway
2021 01 Jun
An overview of a decision support platform that offers holistic decision support along the continuum of care, bringing together a wide variety of healthcare data from diverse IT systems with a vendor-neutral design and user-friendly solutions. Key Points As healthcare processes become more digital, there has been tremendous growth in health... Read more
Holistic Decision-Making in a Digital World
2021 27 May
Smart data integration and decision support along the patient pathway In today’s digitalized healthcare environment, informed medical decision-making increasingly depends on the smart integration of data. However, there are many barriers and challenges along the patient pathway. Complex decisions may fail because data is inaccessible or too extensive... Read more
Germany Government Approves Covid-19 Antigen Self-Test for Lay Persons
2021 26 Mar
The German Federal Office for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) has given temporary special approval for self-administration of the CLINITEST Rapid COVID-19 Antigen Self-Test by lay persons. Moreover, the regular conformity assessment procedure for CE marking for self-administration by lay persons has been initiated. The test had already received a... Read more
A Sharper Focus In Radiation Therapy Planning
2021 18 Jan
Internal movement caused by a patient's breathing presents a major challenge in tumor imaging. Motion artifacts in clinical images can cause difficulties when planning radiotherapy. René Werner from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) has long been concerned with precisely this problem. Together with Christian Hofmann, physicist... Read more
COVID-19 Antigen Test Achieved CE Mark For Easier Specimen Collection From The Frontal Part Of Nose
2021 12 Jan
The CLINITEST Rapid COVID-19 Antigen Test, distributed by Siemens Healthineers , can now be used with swabs from the frontal (anterior) part of the nose, in addition to the nasopharyngeal swab method. The new anterior method offers 97.3% sensitivity and 100% specificity. This new sampling method can be used with existing test kits in the field,... Read more
Online Rehabilitation At Home Established In Record Time
2020 06 Nov
In March, when the whole country locked down, almost 150 patients were undergoing their rehabilitation stay at the LHL Hospital in Gardermoen, Norway. Within one day, everyone was sent home to prevent COVID-19 from spreading. “It was a bit chaotic that day,” recalls Anne Edvardsen, head of the rehabilitation department... Read more
Siemens Healthineers Introduces Biograph Vision Quadra Extended Axial FoV PET/CT Scanner
2020 23 Oct
Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine Large 106 cm axial PET field of view enables simultaneous whole-body imaging from top of head to thigh Industry’s most sensitive extended field of view scanner¹ designed for clinical and research use During the virtual 33rd Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear... Read more
Siemens Healthineers Introduces Biograph Vision Quadra Extended Axial FoV PET/CT Scanner
2020 23 Oct
Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine Large 106 cm axial PET field of view enables simultaneous whole-body imaging from top of head to thigh Industry’s most sensitive extended field of view scanner¹ designed for clinical and research use During the virtual 33rd Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear... Read more
Varian Stockholders Approve Combination with Siemens Healthineers
2020 16 Oct
Varian has announced that its stockholders have voted to approve the previously announced pending combination with Siemens Healthineers AG (Frankfurt: SHL) at a special meeting. Varian stockholders voted overwhelmingly in favour of the transaction. "The overwhelming support our stockholders have expressed for this combination reflects... Read more