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FDA clears self-driving mobile C-arm from Siemens Healthineers

The Ciartic Move mobile C-arm with self-driving capabilities. [Image courtesy of Siemens Healthineers]Siemens Healthineers announced today that the FDA granted clearance for its Ciartic Move mobile C-arm with self-driving capabilities.

Ciartic Move accelerates and standardizes 2D fluoroscopic and 3D cone-beam computed technology (CT) imaging. Working in hospitals and outpatient facilities, it enables consistent automated workflows and reduced imaging time.

Siemens Healthineers designed the system to address the needs of orthopedic, trauma and spine surgery. However, it also has utility in thoracic, vascular, cardiovascular and general surgery, plus urology and interventional pulmonology.

According to a news release, Ciartic Move could address intraoperative imaging challenges caused by staff shortages and overloaded OR teams. A fully motorized C-arm can reduce the time, effort and workforce capacity needed to manually move and position the system. It has up…

Siemens Healthineers to close Fast Track Diagnostics unit

Siemens Healthineers announced today that it intends to close its Fast Track Diagnostics Unit in a move that affects just shy of 100 workers.

The business closure affects about 90 employees, mostly based in Luxembourg. The company has conversations underway with local employee representatives and plans to follow local labor regulations and guidelines in accordance with standard company practice. It expects to complete the closure by September 2024.

Fast Track Diagnostics first became a part of the Siemens Healthineers portfolio through an acquisition completed in December 2017. The collection of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing products comprised part of the company’s overall Diagnostics business. Siemens Healthineers said in a news release that it primarily sells this portfolio in Europe.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic’s peak, the company observed a significant decline in demand for the portfolio’s offerings. Fast Track Diagnostics…

Siemens Healthineers launches surgical planning app on Apple Vision Pro

This app for the for Apple Vision Pro enables users to view immersive, interactive holograms of the human body captured through medical scans in their real-world environment. [Image courtesy of Siemens Healthineers]Siemens Healthineers announced that it launched an app for surgical planning and medical education on the Apple Vision Pro.

The Cinematic Reality app enables users to view immersive, interactive holograms of the human body captured through real-world medical scans. Surgeons, medical students or patients could use this technology. Visualizing through the app could assist in surgical planning or medical education, as well as helping patients visualize procedures.

Siemens Healthineers said it made the app available on the Apple App Store.

“Cinematic Reality gives people the opportunity to immerse themselves in a world of photorealistic renderings of the human anatomy. Apple Vision Pro perfectly presents that three-dimensional experience, combined wi…

FDA clears new radiotherapy systems from Siemens Healthineers’ Varian

The TrueBeam imaging system now has FDA clearance with HyperSight technology. [Image from Varian]Varian announced today that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its TrueBeam and Edge radiotherapy systems with HyperSight imaging.

The Siemens Healthineers company designed HyperSight to empower clinicians to accurately tailor treatments to individual patients. This helps improve patient outcomes, thanks to new capabilities and workflows across the company’s linear accelerators.

HyperSight allows clinicians to acquire high-quality images during a patient’s daily course of radiation treatments. It helps to improve the ability to target tumor volumes more precisely and spare healthy tissue for patients undergoing radiation therapy.

Adding HyperSight to the Varian line of linear accelerators means the company’s portfolio can produce images that deliver the Hounsfield Unit (HU) accuracy necessary for treatment planning directly on the acquired co…

Profound Medical, Siemens Healthineers collab on ultrasound ablation

The TULSA-PRO system from Profound Medical. [Image from Siemens Healthineers]Profound Medical (Nasdaq:PROF) announced today that it entered into a non-exclusive collaboration with Siemens Healthineers.

The two companies aim to lay the groundwork for Profound to begin marketing a complete therapeutics solution. They want to combine the Profound TULSA-PRO system with the Siemens Magnetom Free.Max magnetic resonance (MR) scanner.

While this combination falls under the remit of Profound’s own sales force, the company also plan to market TULSA-PRO as a standalone offering. This enables customers to use the technology with the MR hardware of their choice.

TULSA-PRO performs the company’s transurethral ultrasound ablation (TULSA) procedure. It employs real-time MR guidance for precision while killing targeted prostate tissue through sound absorption technology. The system enables surgeons to ablate whole- or partial-gland prostate tissue in patients wi…

FDA clears Syngo Virtual Cockpit tech from Siemens Healthineers

The Syngo Virtual Cockpit. [Image courtesy of Siemens Healthineers]Siemens Healthineers announced that the FDA cleared its Syngo Virtual Cockpit, a private, secure communication platform.

The platform enables real-time image visualization, acquisition and collaboration between healthcare professionals across multiple sites. Siemens Healthineers designed the software so users can connect to CT, MR, PET and a number of other scanners. Scanners include those made by Siemens Healthineers and from other equipment vendors, regardless of location.

According to a news release, Syngo marks the first and only multi-vendor remote scanning software to win FDA clearance as a medical device.

With the software, radiologic technologists can use live audio, video and chat functionalities. They can conduct scans or provide support for up to three different remote scanners simultaneously. The company said it can help address the ongoing technologist shortage and standardize c…

FDA clears new MR scanner from Siemens Healthineers

The Magnetom Cima.X 3 Tesla (3T) magnetic resonance imaging whole-body scanner. [Image courtesy of Siemens Healthineers]Siemens Healthineers announced today that the FDA cleared its Magnetom Cima.X 3 Tesla (3T) magnetic resonance imaging whole-body scanner.

Magnetom Cima.X includes the strongest-ever gradients system for a clinically released whole-body MR scanner, according to a news release. This makes smaller structures in the body visible and captures images faster than previous MR scanners. Other design features enhance scientific research and overcome key imaging challenges to visualize cancer and other diseases.

Siemens Healthineers designed its Gemini Gradients for the scanner to register 2.5 times higher than its previous strongest MR gradients in terms of amplitude. They have an amplitude of 200 mT/m and a slew rate of 200 T/m/s. This enables clinicians to better study neurodegenerative diseases, increasing the visibility of microstructures. Users can le…

Siemens Healthineers unveils new dual-source CT scanner

The Somatom Pro.Pulse scanner. [Image courtesy of Siemens Healthineers]Siemens Healthineers announced the unveiling of its Somatom Pro.Pulse system dual-source computed tomography (CT) scanner.

The new system expands the clinical reach of Siemens Healthineers’ signature dual-source technology. It also features myExam Companion and integrated 3D cameras to simplify scanner operation. The system also requires up to 20% less power consumption than previous dual-source systems.

According to a news release, it offers more accessibility for smaller and rural facilities as well as outpatient diagnostic centers. Somatom Pro.Pulse offers lower lifecycle costs compared to other dual-source systems with an improved cooling system and more efficient power consumption.

“With our new advanced Dual Source CT scanner we aim to make this high-class technology available to more patients,” said Philipp Fischer, head of CT at Siemens Healthineers. “CT exams p…

Siemens Healthineers Diagnostics to lay off 300 workers in New Jersey

Siemens Healthineers Diagnostics filed with the state of New Jersey to confirm the planned layoffs of 300 employees at its Morris, New Jersey location.

The latest round of layoffs for the company follows the elimination of 67 roles at a diagnostics facility in Flanders, New Jersey, in June. A number of companies around medtech enacted layoffs over the past year and more. We compiled a list of them here.

Siemens Healthineers’ filing with New Jersey’s Department of Labor & Workforce Development is dated this month. The 300 layoffs go into effect over the course of the next 14 months or so. Effective dates range back to March of this year and run through Dec. 31, 2024.

With the Flanders layoffs earlier this year, Siemens Healthineers confirmed that its last layoffs came as part of a consolidation effort. It moved its Atellica Solution IM (immunoassay) module manufacturing from the New Jersey site to its Swords site in Dublin, Ireland. Those …

‘Love, yet fear’ — how medtech is stepping into the digital sphere

Robert Cohen of Stryker offered his thoughts on how medtech is adopting digital technologies. [Photo courtesy of Stryker]Dr. Rajiv Sethi likes to compare the implementation of digital technologies and automation in medtech to the automation in an airplane.

If the pilots experienced an issue with their technology or the weather, for instance, they could manually interject, he says. But, the “vast majority of the work” goes down to automation.

Sethi serves as a clinical professor for health systems and population health and executive director of the Center for Neurosciences and Spine at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Virginia Mason Medical Center. He explained his airplane and operating room analogy today at AdvaMed’s The MedTech Conference in Anaheim, California.

Sethi spoke on a panel titled “Digital is the New Frontier: Are We Stepping Into it Boldly?” (Want to find out more about digital surgery, artifici…

Siemens Healthineers’ Varian acquires oncology solutions company Aspekt Solutions

Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company, announced today that it acquired oncology solutions provider Aspekt Solutions.

Aspekt Solutions provides medical physics, dosimetry and strategy consultation services. The acquisition aims to expand Varian’s advanced oncology solutions (AOS) offerings. Palo Alto, California-based Varian wants to increase the ability to address the rising demand for customized services and standardized care.

Varian provides support for every step of the chance care journey, from screening to survivorship. Its offerings include imaging and radiation therapy, plus software and services and interventional radiology.

Through AOS, Varian offers tailored engagements harnessing technology and combining it with professional support. These support teams collaborate with cancer centers to realize their unique goals. The company says it helps them expand, upgrade or standardize operations while implementing global best practices in cance…

What are the largest medical device companies?

Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson MedTech and Siemens Healthineers again lead the Medtech Big 100 list of largest medical device companies.

However, there is so much more to Medical Design & Outsourcing and MassDevice‘s 2023 edition of the Medtech Big 100 report. We pulled thousands of data points to provide information on annual revenue, R&D spending, headcount, CEOs and key leaders, headquarters locations and descriptions of each of the 100 largest medical device companies.

Senior Editor Danielle Kirsh’s analysis shows that even as the largest medtech companies engaged in layoffs over the past year, they also made a bet on innovation to boost future growth: R&D spending increased nearly 13% to $26.4 billion. (Read the full story on MDO.)

In addition, the full Medtech Big 100 list includes already completed medtech company spinoffs such as Embecta , GE HealthCare and ZimVie.

Read the full Medtech Big 100 report to find out …