St. Joseph Hospital in Orange County, California, USA, has built a stellar reputation for cardiac and vascular services.

The Laboratorio Médico del Chopo, Mexico, is supported by Siemens’ ultrasound systems and its after-sales support to provide outstanding service to patients and physicians.

In Johannesburg, South Africans marched together decked out in pink to help spread awareness of breast cancer and encourage early detection.

Combined Applications to Reduce Exposure (CARE) help to reduce radiation dose at the Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York, U.S.

syngo.plaza helps boost radiologists’ productivity. Siemens’ new PACS can be adapted to customers’ needs individually to serve them even better

The third annual World Health Summit in Berlin, Germany, brought together decision-makers and scientists from around the world to address some of today’s most pressing issues.

Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando, Fla., recently became the first healthcare facility in the U.S. to install Siemens’ Luminos Agile fluoroscopy and radiography system.

Thailand’s Thammasat University Hospital in Bangkok recently integrated Siemens’ the StreamLAB system into its laboratory to streamline its processes and reduce human error.

The new global campaign “Turn your city pink!” aims to raise awareness for breast cancer and early detection. Beginning in October 2011, the campaign runs for one year.

Siemens’ workflow management, services and support, as well as education and training will fit any laboratory and result in improved productivity.

Interventional radiologists from a groundbreaking image guided therapy team in Boston, MA, U.S., turn to syngo.via for advanced, multimodality visualization.

Siemens expands its angiography systems with radiation free navigation technology for cardiac interventions from St. Jude Medical.

In world’s healthcare systems billions of Euros are tied up in frozen capital – inefficiently deployed capital or untapped liquidity potential

Riverside Health System relies on Soarian Clinicals health information system to provide seamless access to patient data while also coordinating tasks among clinicians.

Across the world in October, people take action to raise breast cancer awareness. French and Russian citizens in Paris and Moscow go pink.

The Dimension EXL 200 system, with LOCI advanced chemiluminescence technology, is the latest addition to the Dimension family of integrated chemistry analyzers.

The Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) has been trying to find answers to the question: How does the brain learn a second or third language?

Two laboratorians discuss detecting chronic alcohol abuse using specific blood tests and analysis systems from Siemens.

A new generation of diagnostics IT tools is getting results in the hands of clinicians faster, improving the quality of the results, and enhancing lab operational efficiency.

The Siemens Tissue Preparation Solution uses proprietary technology to provide the only fully automated process for extraction of nucleic acids from FFPE tissue samples.

After being put to the test in a multi-modality study with radiologists from six different medical sites, syngo.via shows that it can enhance efficiency.

An imaging center in Bremen Mitte, Germany, is seeing the benefits from syngo.via and syngo..plaza. Now, syngo..via Mobile Applications offer even more time-savings.

Life Vincent Pallotti Cardiac Unit in South Africa celebrates a new addition to its cath lab technology entourage, the Artis zee Biplane system.

With changing demands due to a growing and ageing population, Australia soon needs to transform its healthcare system from ‘sick care’ to ‘well care’ starting with prevention.

Paoli Hospital in Chester County, PA, U.S., improved its endourologic system without a major capital expense by upgrading its existing UROSKOP Access system with EndoExpand.

With the Artis zeego C-arm system, minimally invasive procedures can not only be performed in the cardiac field, but also in spinal surgery and pulmonary medicine.

In a newly published training booklet, you will find a complete listing of system and application training courses for the second half of 2011. Book your course now!

Two large hospitals in Germany have successfully completed the Siemens Green+ Check. It provides feedback on existing sustainability efforts while highlighting potential improvements.

Medical tourism is gathering pace, but the current trend is not entirely new: for decades, wealthy patients from the developing world have often sought treatment in Western countries.

For the next 15 years, Siemens will deliver state-of-the-art medical equipment to two state-run hospitals in Murcia, Spain, enabling the region to increase the quality of care.

British star architect Lord Norman Foster touches on the healing power of architecture, and the artistic tightrope act between functionality and the feel-good factor for patients.

The Mira’s wireless capability facilitates examinations of patients with limited mobility, and its unique rotating swivel arm helps increase ease of use for clinical staff.

“Act on Radiology”, a new Siemens’ consulting concept based on models for industry processes adapted to clinical requirements, helps improve workflows in radiology departments.

For the first time in the region, Siemens installed five state-of-the-art medical technologies at Kovai Medical Center and Hospital in Coimbatore, India.

Healthcare providers of all sizes across the U.S. are turning to Soarian to help improve clinical efficiency and streamline financial performance.

A new application, CARE Analytics, can help clinicians, for example, improve their scan protocols and work with reduced dose.

The enhanced version of the DCA Vantage Analyzer for diabetes management protects patient information while also improving connectivity between hospitals and clinics.

The Monaco Cardio-Thoracic Center (CCM), a European Reference Center Cardiovascular Medicine, shows that excellent results in cardiology come from having the best imaging possible.

The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, China, takes on other challenges besides expansion – innovation – with the help of the Artis zeego imaging system.

3D stress volume echocardiography is an emerging standard of care in cardiology. A visit to the University Medical Center Mainz.

A German hospital improved quality of care through close collaboration between non-invasive and interventional cardiology.

In 2012, hospitals will see a net 1% increase in payment for inpatient services. On August 1, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) announced its final rule for the 2012 the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS).

On June 15, 2011, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) released its June 2011 Report to Congress: "Medicare and the Health Delivery System."

A new research unit in the UK can now study common heart conditions including heart disease and heart failure, using a MAGNETOM Skyra and an Artis zee system.

syngo.via powers the computed tomography (CT) Oncology Engine and facilitates oncological assessment by bundling a variety of dedicated functions for oncological reading.

Especially in complex cases, postmortem imaging is becoming an additional tool complementing traditional autopsy in the analysis of cause of death – and demand is growing steadily.

The Angiografia de Occidente cardiology group in Cali, Colombia has become a leader in percutaneous aortic valve implants.

Detailed dose reports providing system-specific usage data can now be accessed any time with SOMATOM Definition systems thanks to Siemens’ advanced Utilization Management (UM).

Using the new imaging technique Virtual Touch technology, an implementation of acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI), Brazilian researchers could detect isoechoic breast cancer.

Siemens South Africa employees joined the international celebration of Nelson Mandela’s 93rd birthday by volunteering to give back to the local community.

The Germano de Sousa Group in Portugal has equipped their laboratories with more than 30 Siemens instruments for chemistry, immunoassay, microbiology, and molecular testing.

The height-adjustable, dynamic flat detector system for fluoroscopy and radiography, Luminos Agile, is now commercially available in the United States.

syngo.via helps reduce the time from admission to an emergency ward to diagnosis in cardiac patients. Radiologists and patients benefit from the advances in radiology.

Siemens underwrites a 20,000 dollar grant from The Emergency Medicine Foundation to fund point-of-care ultrasound research aimed at understanding ultrasound in emergent settings.

At this year’s conference for the ESTRO in London, Siemens Healthcare presented diverse radiation therapy solutions, such as Multiple-X and In-Line kView.

Siemens’ minimally invasive syngo Embolization Guidance application makes myoma tumor therapy easier on patients.

Thanks to financial leasing, Siemens can provide radiology equipment for a new hospital investment by the Kayseri Erciyes Hospital Group in Kayseri,Turkey.

The VersaCell automation solution addresses increasing demand, a shrinking technician workforce, and lack of space by connecting two freestanding Siemens diagnostic analyzers.

As radiography departments and hospitals look for ways to digitize their workflow, Siemens provides investment solutions and strategies for digital equipment.

Performance meets accessibility to deliver an advanced diagnostic solution

3D breast imaging was in the focus of a one-hour Siemens-organized Satellite Symposium at the European Congress of Radiology. The presentations are now available online.

A series of essays in our customer magazine Medical Solutions shows how countries all over the world deal with changes and challenges in their healthcare systems.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently granted Siemens Healthcare 510(k) clearance for the Biograph mMR, the first system worldwide to enable simultaneous whole-body acquisition of data from magnetic resonance (MR) and positron emission tomography (PET).

Siemens Healthcare announced that the research firm KLAS has named Siemens’ MAGNETOM® Verio 3T Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system the recipient of its 2011 “Best in KLAS” Award for 3T MRI. The annual award is given to a vendor or product that scores the highest in its industry segment and provides the broadest operational and clinical impact to healthcare organizations.

Independent study shows Siemens’ CLINITEST hCG Pregnancy Test had the highest detectability factor and analytical sensitivity when compared to five other point-of-care devices.

The ADVIA Centaur XP Immunoassay system offers a fully automated Vitamin D Total assay that employs proprietary antibodies – the gold standard in vitamin D testing.

Lawrence and Memorial Hospital opted for Siemens’ reliable remote-monitoring service on the BCS XP System for enhanced productivity.

In the cardiac cath lab, even routine examinations can lead to urgently needed, often lifesaving, interventions. That’s why Schwabing Hospital in Munich, Germany, has equipped its new cardiac cath lab with the Artis zee.

The Sanjeevan Mobile Clinic takes basic medical services as well as health education, to the most remote villages and most poverty-stricken individuals in India.

Five months after opening, the Ethianum hospital in Heidelberg, Germany, has come up to expectations in terms of environmental protection, efficiency, and quality of care.

Patient-centered care is one of the three pillars of the healthcare reform effort in the U.S. The Luminos Agile Fluoroscopy/Radiography system is the latest in Siemens X-ray technology to enhance the patient experience, while offering providers imaging excellence and improved workflow.

Workflow for minimally invasive heart valve implantations is simplified with the syngo Aortic ValveGuide allowing cardiac surgeons to perform with more ease and confidence.

The University Hospital Erlangen, University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany performs blood volume distribution imaging using a Siemens angiography system.

“The ultimate objective of life is becoming happy,” says South African Iqbal Survé. In his vision, individual health and a sustainable lifestyle go hand in hand.

A radiological practice in Germany selects refurbishing options for its new MAGNETOM Symphony, according to their needs, thanks to Siemens’ new scalable refurbishment offering.

Düren Hospital, Germany, aims to achieve savings in the millions in cardiology based on actions recommended by Siemens Healthcare.

CEO links Soarian MedSuite to strategic initiatives to bring a new level of excellent clinical care to larger parts of India and the surrounding region.

Soarian Clinicals Healthcare Process Management helps clinicians improve dysphagia screening and reduce the rate of aspiration pneumonia.

Many countries are still far from reaching the UN Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 – a reduction in child and maternal mortality of two thirds by 2015.

In recent years, mobile phones have revolutionized the way medicine is being practiced in many parts of Africa.

The field of healthcare economics is still facing significant challenges in terms of globalization – but not because economists disagree on how to analyse costs and benefits of care.

Despite progress in the fight against infectious diseases, developing countries face new problems, such as chronic, non-communicable diseases.

The challenge in financing healthcare systems is to mobilize additional revenues for healthcare and to find ways of improving health outcome without increasing costs.

Modern medical imaging has brought us ever clearer pictures of the human body. But is our ability to understand these pictures as advanced as the technology?

A new, enhanced nucleic acid extraction technology helps laboratories increase productivity and efficiency on a single, bench-top platform.

Siemens Radiation Reduction Alliance (SIERRA) takes big steps to develop new technologies that can be transferred into daily clinical routine in pediatric practices.

Siemens’ IN Focus imaging technology helps ultrasound technicians see anatomy more clearly at all depths in cardiology.

syngo.via Web Options gives physicians the opportunity to read and view images faster with secure and immediate access, pushing the boundaries of communication efficiency.

Automated Breast Volume Scanning opens the door to new applications in mammary diagnostics. Results from one of the first institutions to use the system are promising.

Amnioscopic Rendering shows the spatial relationship among structures in the uterus, identifying perforation due to pathological changes.

The highly flexible platform MODULARIS now offers a motorized gel position for contact-free prepositioning of the patient and easy application of the gel to the shock wave bellows.

Patients and physicians benefit from Siemens’ Artis zeego and Artis zee technology now in place at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

The MRI systems MAGNETOM Aera and MAGNETOM Skyra recently received the “iF” product design award for ergonomic and functional design in the category “medicine/health + care”.

With Artis zee, the Bedford Hospital NHS Trust is now able to use its space for both interventional angiography and surgical procedures and performs a wide range of imaging procedures.

Siemens’ commitment to environment-friendly products is now documented by the incorporation of four resource-efficient systems into the environmental portfolio.

Computed tomography (CT) users from around the globe can compete and share their low-dose images taken with a Siemens scanner with a professional audience from all over the world to win the International CT Image Contest 2011.

Siemens Healthcare recently supported the charity Stroke for Stroke in cooperation with The Stroke Association and highlighted the benefits of regular exercise.

The new feature scans quality control information into the RAPIDPoint 340/350 Blood Gas Analyzers, increasing operator convenience and minimizing opportunity for error.

Las Vegas, March 15, 2011 – Oconee Medical Center in Seneca, S.C., is the winner of Siemens "Who Inspires You?" video contest and the recipient of a new MAMMOMAT® Inspiration, Siemens next generation full-field digital mammography system.

India has less than one magnetic resonance scanner per million of its population but things are changing as the country installs a new-generation scanner at Scans World in Chennai.

The University Hospital of Erlangen and Siemens Healthcare team up to advance and exchange medical and clinical know-how at the Imaging Science Institute (ISI).

With addition of bilirubin, Siemens’ point-of-care blood gas analyzer now offers a full panel of critical care parameters for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

The international survey results from the Breast Cancer Survey are in and reveal interesting and helpful insights into how women perceive, deal with, and feel about this topic.

Clinicians of renowned hospitals in France and in the USA share their first experiences with Siemens’ syngo.via; describing multiple benefits in comparison to conventional imaging software.

In Calgary, Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging and contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) applications are making waves.

Siemens receives the iF product design award for the intelligent design of the flat detector based X-ray system UROSKOP Omnia and will be highlighted at an exhibition in Hannover.

The recently unveiled Biograph mMR system for integrated whole-body molecular MR is now undergoing clinical use testing in Munich, Germany.

With demand for higher-quality care and mandates to contain healthcare costs, diagnostics IT is stepping up to the challenge with process management.

The latest version of syngo Dynamics is capable of global web access as well as enterprise management and also offers additional new possibilities.

The results of the first feasibility study show that the prototype of the innovative new method functions feasibly and sufficiently accurate.

The exceptional outcomes at Bulgaria’s top nuclear medicine department with SPECT/CT reflect the growth of the nuclear medicine market in the country.

Frost & Sullivan have awarded Siemens with the Best Practice Award for Market Share Leadership in Europe for Digital Radiography in 2010.

The Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus in Stuttgart, Germany, opens the fourth hybrid operating room with Artis zeego multi-axis as core system in Germany.