Siemens Healthineers launches global Digital Ecosystem for healthcare providers

Siemens Healthineers

Siemens Healthineers launched a digital platform that aims to foster the growth of a digital ecosystem, linking healthcare providers and solution providers with one another as well as bringing together their data, applications and services.

In the Siemens Healthineers Digital Ecosystem, data from imaging, in-vitro diagnostics and medical documentation from select Siemens Healthineers customers is combined and assessed. It then allows users to exchange data and knowledge with other experts beyond their own institution, with the goal to set new trends in healthcare and enable providers to meet their current challenges and to excel in their respective environments.

Through the Digital Ecosystem, Siemens Healthineers will provide its customers with aggregated data which are usable for different evaluations. For example, tools for predictive analysis could enable users to discern new correlations and trends to help improve diagnoses and guide therapy choices. Also, the Siemens Healthineers Digital Ecosystem will allow experts to link and communicate with their peers worldwide, and healthcare providers can benefit from Siemens Healthineers’ extensive expertise in nearly all clinical areas, including experience in data security in the healthcare market.

The system will have a set of open APIs to enable application developers and solution providers to create, market and offer services which are integrated into a shared digital healthcare platform. Partner companies will be able to access one of the largest pools of in-vivo and in-vitro data, and share their solutions with healthcare providers in markets all across the world.

“With the Siemens Healthineers Digital Ecosystem, we are providing our customers with much deeper insights than previously possible into the key components that create both clinical and operational value.” Dr. Arthur Kaindl, Head of Digital Health Services at Siemens Healthineers, said in a statement. “Such a major transformation can only be initiated by working together. Our partners are essential to the success of this platform, and ultimately to the success of transforming healthcare.”

The Siemens Healthineers Digital Ecosystem is based on the cloud-based network teamplay, which has been recognized for its handling of data privacy and is already in use at hundreds of customer sites. It brings together a number of additional platforms such as LifeNet or the Point of Care (POC) Informatics solution from Siemens Healthineers. Built on Microsoft Azure cloud platform, it currently contains several million data records, providing, for example, insight into the level of utilization of imaging devices in a clinic or the associated radiation doses.

Among the companies that agreed to participate in and/or contribute to the Siemens Healthineers Digital Ecosystem are the likes of Arterys, Dell EMC, SecondOpinions.com, Stroll Health, SyntheticMR, 3D Slicer, TMC, USARAD and Viewics. The platform is also open for additional partners and is planned to be commercially available in the fall of 2017.