New York Health Plan Launches Online Service To Boost Care Delivery
New York Health Plan Launches Online Service To Boost Care Delivery

BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York launched a Web-based service that connects members to in-network physicians.
Online Care NY is part of the insurer’s “virtual health” plan to improve health care delivery. Cynthia Ambres, senior vice president and chief medical officer at BCBS, said that the program will help to alleviate an expected shortage of primary care physicians in the next 10 years.

Siemens installs Rajasthan
Siemens installs Rajasthan

The Chief Minister of Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot, has inaugurated the Biograph 16 PET.CT scanner by Siemens at Bhagwan Mahaveer Cancer Hospital, Jaipur. It is the first PET.CT scanner in the state of Rajasthan, which helps in identifying cancer lesions at a very early stage. It also comes with HD.PET technology, which provides the best image resolution in the industry and an X-ray reduction feature, which reduces the radiation dose to the patient up to 68%.

Siemens wins 2010 Techno-College Innovation Award
Siemens wins 2010 Techno-College Innovation Award

The European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) presented its Techno-College Innovation Award for 2010 to Siemens Healthcare for its development of the syngo Aortic ValveGuide software. The award celebrates innovations which represent advances in cardiac surgery. This is the first time that Siemens has won the award.

3-D in angiography, new imaging software from Siemens
3-D in angiography, new imaging software from Siemens

Siemens has launched a new image processing software, which helps cardiologists and cardiac surgeons prepare and perform Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantations (TAVI), Syngo Aortic ValveGuide that automatically reconstructs a 3D representation of the aortic root from CT-like cross-sectional images acquired with the angiography system.

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