Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Siemens Healthcare's CT Imaging Solution for the Value it Offers Both Service Providers and Patients

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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Siemens

Healthcare's CT Imaging Solution for the Value

it Offers Both Service Providers and Patients

PR Newswire

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, July 3, 2012

- FAST CARE has been identified as the industry's most effective solution for

optimizing exam speed, image quality and radiation dose exposure in CT

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California

,

July 3, 2012

/PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent

analysis of workflow solutions for the computed tomography (CT) imaging

market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Siemens Healthcare with the 2012 North

American Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Value Enhancement. The

company's FAST CARE solution that works with Siemens' SOMATOM Definition

AS and Flash scanners address the diverse needs of CT technologists,

physicians, and patients alike.

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"Consistent pressure to leverage imaging services and patient care in a fast

growing environment have made workflow and productivity top priorities for CT

image service providers across the U.S.," said Frost & Sullivan Industry Analyst

Roberto Aranibar. "The challenge for providers lies not only in increasing the

rate at which imaging procedures are performed, but also in delivering exams

that continue to meet physician and industry expectations for image quality,

radiation dose and patient care."

FAST (Fully Assisting Scanner Technologies) and CARE (Combined Applications

to Reduce Exposure), the two components of FAST CARE, potentially make it

possible for service providers to streamline workflow and maximize productivity

while maintaining high image quality with low radiation dose, and enabling the

delivery of patient-centric healthcare.

Siemens' FAST solutions are designed to simplify and expedite tasks for the

imaging technologist throughout a procedure—during planning, setup,

scanning, image reconstruction and data evaluation. It may reduce time-

intensive and technically difficult tasks to a single click of a mouse. The highly-

automated operation of FAST solutions also enables consistent delivery of high-

quality images.

For instance, FAST Planning automates scan and reconstruction ranges,

potentially speeding and simplifying the process of setting up an organ-targeted

scan. FAST Adjust may streamline workflow by replacing manual scan

parameter adjustment with a single mouse click. FAST also includes solutions

designed to improve workflow efficiency for specific clinical applications, such

as FAST Spine that automates the setup of reconstruction modes for individual

vertebrae and discs during spinal exams, a task that can take up to half an hour

when performed manually.

CARE kV is a feature that quickly and accurately optimizes kV and mA settings

according to each patient and exam type limiting the applied dose while

maintaining high image quality. CARE Profile promotes more active

management of dose in the user interface by displaying planned dose