Siemens Healthcare is all set to enter the market with a portfolio of products for cardiology which includes cardiovascular IT solutions together with customer-specific services. The products are : an advanced heart cath lab to replace a growing number of heart valves with a minimally invasive catheter procedure and a new image 3D in angiography which simplifies workflow for minimally invasive heart valve implantation among others.

These solutions provide improved efficiency in routine echocardiography exams and helps the physician obtain real-time, three-dimensional guidance in the patient’s body while navigating the new valve to its intended location, according to the company.

In Nuclear Cardiology, Siemens provides the cardiologist with techniques that facilitate detection of beginning or already manifested coronary heart disease including myocardial infarct and the examinations of abnormalities in global as well as local wall motion with its Syngo Dynamic PET with Myocardial Blood Flow offers a new method for quantitatively evaluating the extent of ischemia via high-performance PET-CT imaging and advanced applications.

Siemens Cardiovascular IT Solutions optimize clinical workflows through integration of imaging and information. The solutions are designed to provide quick and better access to healthcare at a more cost-effective method. With syngo Dynamics, Siemens’ multi-modality image viewing and archiving system, knowledge-driven and clinically derived evidence-based structured reporting supports clinical decisions.

Syngo Dynamics version 9.0 will introduce new administrative tools to enhance the clinical experience, will support additional reductions in report turnaround time, offer real time display of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and more, stated the company.

In addition, the company has also developed a new consultation approach "Act on Acute Coronary Syndrome" to help its users have new ways to evaluate and improve hospital-specific structures and processes. It is based on a systematic model consisting of a data pool that includes medical guidelines, current scientific results, best practice analyses, and profound clinical expertise. Models regarding the level of process maturity have been developed for the complex events of a specific disease - in this case, for acute coronary syndrome. With its comparable use in healthcare Siemens has developed a completely new consultation model in healthcare which opens up new possibilities. The objective of the new approach is to improve both process quality and guideline adherence in hospitals and, as a result, the quality of medical care.