LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HIMSS 2018: Venetian-Palazzo, Sands Expo Center, Booth 4454 – At the 2018 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition, Siemens Healthineers showcases new additions and updates to its Digital Ecosystem,1 an open and secured environment for healthcare stakeholders that houses a range of digital offerings from Siemens Healthineers and other partners based on shared healthcare data. Within the Siemens Healthineers cloud, different data sources can be integrated and processed, supporting a large variety of application types. To date, almost 2000 institutions from roughly 50 countries take part in the Digital Ecosystem, continuously feeding data into this platform to derive insights based on innovative applications and services. Siemens Healthineers leverages digitalized healthcare solutions like the Digital Ecosystem to cultivate the vast amounts of data produced through diagnostic images, laboratory results, and more enabling healthcare providers to address current healthcare challenges and provide value-based care to patients.
Network of innovative services and applications
"As mass
amounts of healthcare data are produced every day, healthcare providers
need a tool that can channel information into actionable insights,” says
August Calhoun, Senior Vice President of North America Services at
Siemens Healthineers. “The Digital Ecosystem utilizes these vast data
sets to generate insights through innovations available from Siemens
Healthineers and our platform partners.”
At HIMSS 2018, Siemens Healthineers unveils a number of new partners and applications:
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Amra Medical2: An international
digital health company, it is the first in the world to transform
images from a rapid, six-minute whole body MRI scan into precise,
3D-volumetric fat and muscle measurements, enabling market-leading
accuracy and precision when assessing lean tissue changes, muscle fat
infiltration, and overall metabolic status.
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Circle2: Circle Cardiovascular Imaging
Inc. develops cvi42, a cardiovascular
post-processing software for the analysis of MRI and CT images,
providing rapid analysis with unparalleled accuracy.
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Combinostics2: Combinostics’ cNeuro
cMRI application turns MRI brain images into objective measurements of
brain structures, supporting early diagnosis in Alzheimer’s disease
and other neurodegenerative diseases.
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Cranberry Peak2: Approved by the
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for the Appropriate Use
Criteria Program, Cranberry Peak’s ezCDS application provides
compliance with ease for PAMA/MACRA mandates with a patent pending AI
assistant serving as a clinical decision support mechanism. With
multilingual voice and conversational interface, ezCDS helps
physicians spend more time with patients and less with computer
screens, creating the user experience of the future in healthcare.
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Precision Image Analysis (PIA)2: PIA
is a service provider of cloud-based, advanced medical image
post-processing and analysis. PIA offers an opportunity to avoid
training personnel, software, and hardware capital costs and employ an
on-demand post-processing expert. Completed analyses are returned and
auto-appended to original patient studies on the client’s Picture
Archiving and Communication System (PACS) for final diagnostic
interpretation by the physician.
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XIFIN2: XIFIN is the first partner to
offer solutions for the clinical laboratory on the Siemens
Healthineers Digital Ecosystem. Their flagship cloud-based Revenue
Cycle Management (RCM) solution optimizes the laboratory’s financial
performance by maximizing efficiency, improving cash collection, and
delivering financially accurate and actionable business intelligence.
XIFIN’s solutions will be sold in the US market.
www.xifin.com
Digital Ecosystem Store
All digital offerings will be
available through a special marketplace, the Digital Ecosystem Store.
The store allows users to search for, request a quotation or trial, and
download offerings as part of specific subscription models. Offerings
available in the store cover cloud-based and locally installed
deployments. Due to the collaborative nature of the Digital Ecosystem,
customers and patients benefit from an ever-expanding range of digital
health offerings. The Digital Ecosystem from Siemens Healthineers is
continuously developing and growing, offering new innovations and
solutions for healthcare providers across the globe to efficiently
introduce digital health offerings into their institutions.
1 The Siemens Healthineers Digital Ecosystem is under
development and not commercially available in the U.S. and other
countries. If the services are not marketed in countries due to
regulatory or other reasons, this service offering cannot be guaranteed.
2
Siemens is neither the provider nor reseller nor legal
manufacturer of these products. Any claims made for this product are
under the sole responsibility of the legal manufacturer. Additionally,
they may not be commercially available in all countries. Please contact
the legal manufacturer for more information.
Siemens Healthineers is the separately managed healthcare business of Siemens AG enabling healthcare providers worldwide to increase value by empowering them on their journey towards expanding precision medicine, transforming care delivery, improving patient experience and digitalizing healthcare. A leader in medical technology, Siemens Healthineers is constantly innovating its portfolio of products and services in its core areas of diagnostic and therapeutic imaging and in laboratory diagnostics and molecular medicine. Siemens Healthineers is also actively developing its digital health services and enterprise services.
In fiscal 2017, which ended on September 30, 2017, Siemens Healthineers generated revenue of €13.8 billion and profit of €2.5 billion and has about 48,000 employees worldwide. Further information is available at www.siemens.com/healthineers.