Transition toward patient-centric care demand OEMs to explore successful partnerships with new resources such as investors, consumer electronics firms, ambulance agencies, and individual counseling psychologists, according to a new Frost & Sullivan report. This will help OEMs to sustain channel growth and product premium in established markets, F&S say.
Read MoreThe American Medical Association has responded positively to the Obama administration’s initial plan to remove hospital payment incentives that have promoted consolidation in the health care industry. Part of the 2017 proposed hospital outpatient payment rule, the new proposal from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aims to align payment policies for physicians in independent practice with those owned by hospitals.
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Patients will literally be at the center of the x-ray experience at Salt Lake City’s University of Utah Health Care, thanks to the hospital’s installation of Siemens Healthineers’ Multitom Rax Twin Robotic X-ray system. The installation, which marks the first in the United States, enables University of Utah Health Care patients to lie down or stand while the Multitom Rax’s two independent, ceiling-mounted robotic arms for the x-ray tube head and the flat-panel detector capture images around them.
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TechVision, Frost & Sullivan’s technology consulting division, has identified key medical devices and imaging technologies expected to make a big splash in the healthcare sector in the next 18 to 24 months. In “2016 Top Technologies in Medical Devices and Imaging,” TechVision reported that innovations in electronics, sensors, information technology, and advanced manufacturing are actively powering product and technology advances in the medical device market.
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Siemens Healthineers is debuting a mobile configuration of its Biograph Horizon PET/CT system at this week’s Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging annual conference in San Diego. The company received FDA clearance for the Biograph Horizon earlier this year.
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