1/2004
Today’s medical and financial challenges are mastered by Utilization Management – a statement fully supported by Jörg Sämann, managing director of the Institute for Imaging Diagnostics and Therapy of Erlangen, Germany. An interview.
Cardiac CT revolutionizes cardiology – now a
dedicated software is needed. Siemens engineers
have been working on a customized solution
for over a year. During a visit to the company’s CT
division, they presented its current capabilities.
By Roland Fath
An industry perspective by Siemens Medical’s Tom Miller, president of the company’s information technology business.
In 2004, the University Hospital of Heidelberg, Germany, opened a new 280-bed medical center focused on Internal Medicine with ICU and IMC units for cardiology and other specialties.
In today’s world of mobile phones, minicomputers, PDAs, and tablet PCs, one might expect that physicians would be able to take advantage of some of the same freedoms that technology offers the rest of the world. And indeed they can.