Search Tag: health care quality
Titanium Contrast-Enhanced Mammography (TiCEM): Mammography Becomes a Functional Technique
2022 02 Jun
Arlette Elizalde, MD and Luis J. Pina Insausti, MD, PhD Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain Abstract Digital Mammography has evolved into more accurate techniques, such as Digital Breast Tomosynthesis and Contrast Enhanced Dual Energy Mammography (CEDEM). CEDEM combines the high spatial resolution of Digital Mammography and the... Read more
Connecting Healthcare Providers with Patients
2022 05 May
Traditionally, the use of healthcare services begins with an in-person appointment with a primary care physician, but being seen often takes days or weeks. As a consequence of the evolution of information technology infrastructure, the ability to deliver digital access to healthcare services has developed. The advantages are many, including eliminating... Read more
How PET/CT Scans Aid in Early Detection of Diseases
2022 13 Apr
PET/CT is a hybrid imaging procedure that visualizes metabolic processes. Since tumor cells have a different metabolism from normal cells, PET/CT is primarily used to aid in cancer diagnosis. PET/CT scans can also be used to evaluate Alzheimer’s disease and heart disease. This short film shows how this hybrid procedure works and how metabolic... Read more
Clinical Decision Support Improve Pneumonia Outcomes
2022 21 Mar
A study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine found that using a clinical decision support (CDS) tool can improve patient care and lower the mortality risk for pneumonia patients receiving emergency department (ED) care. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, pneumonia was a leading cause of death from infectious... Read more
Siemens Healthineers Announces First U.S. Install of SOMATOM X.ceed Premium Single-Source CT Scanner
2022 31 Jan
Gulf Coast Medical Center in Fort Myers, Fla., installs high-speed, low-dose scanner, which enables consistent, high-quality imaging in cardiac and trauma settings Lee Health’s Gulf Coast Medical Center in Fort Myers, Fla., recently became the first U.S. healthcare institution to install the SOMATOM X.ceed, a premium single-source computed tomography... Read more
Lung Cancer Care Empowered by AI - Meet the Team behind
2022 27 Jan
Facilitating decisions using vast amounts of comparative data – AI can do this, but creating the algorithms is a complex and lengthy process. Yet it can make a difference, especially in lung cancer care. The lack of early symptoms and the aggressive progression of lung cancer make it one of the deadliest types of cancer.[1] Individually adapted... Read more
European Physicians Don’t Trust CDSS for Elderly Fall Risk Management
2022 25 Jan
It is important to minimise fall risks for the elderly since these can result in severe injury. Since many cardiovascular and psychotropic medications commonly used by the elderly carry fall risks, a full review of prescribed medications should be conducted for elderly patients to assess fall risk. A Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) integrated... Read more
Siemens Healthineers Sessions at RSNA 2021
2021 19 Nov
From 28th November until 1st December unlock the access to dozens of free curated sessions by Siemens Healthineers. Nov 28, 18:30 GMT+2 Unveiling of the world’s first photon-counting CT A quantum leap in clinical decision making. Learn more about how it works, the answers it provides and how it changes clinical decision making.... Read more
Connected Care and Utilisation of Patient Data
2021 10 Sep
Connecting care teams to patients can drive patient engagement and improve treatment processes that can assist cooperative care. HealthManagement.org interviewed Xavier Battle, head of Marketing and Sales for the Digital Health Business Line for Siemens Healthineers, about the importance and benefits of connected care, application of real-time data,... Read more
On the way to the Moon
2021 31 Aug
From the first digital X-ray images to the digital assistant If you took all of the digital data generated in the healthcare industry up to 2020 and loaded it onto tablets, would the stack of tablets be shorter or taller than the Empire State Building? The tablets would certainly have to store an almost unimaginable quantity of data. While... Read more