Siemens lands 10-year partnership with Geisinger

Pennsylvania-based health system Geisinger has signed on for 10 years of “value partnership” with Siemens Healthineers.

As announced, the deal is largely focused on helping the 13-hospital institution delve deeper into various iterations of digital health, including AI.

Meanwhile it will facilitate Siemens’s installations of medical imaging equipment and its placement of onsite support staff.

Further, Siemens will offer Geisinger access to educational resources aimed at optimizing workflows for clinical and administrative personnel.

“By expanding our relationship with Geisinger, this becomes one of the largest Value Partnership relationships in North America and will allow us to work together to improve the patient experience for residents of Pennsylvania and the region,” says David Pacitti, president of Siemens Healthineers for the Americas, in the announcement.

Geisinger’s COO, Matthew Walsh, says the partnership will “allow us to continue to equip our facilities with the most advanced diagnostic imaging technology in the market to care for our patients.”

Dave Pearson

Dave P. has worked in journalism, marketing and public relations for more than 30 years, frequently concentrating on hospitals, healthcare technology and Catholic communications. He has also specialized in fundraising communications, ghostwriting for CEOs of local, national and global charities, nonprofits and foundations.

Around the web

The final list also included diabetes drugs sold by Boehringer Ingelheim and Merck. The first round of drug price negotiations reduced the Medicare prices for 10 popular drugs by up to 79%. 

HHS has thought through the ways AI can and should become an integral part of healthcare, human services and public health. Last Friday—possibly just days ahead of seating a new secretary—the agency released a detailed plan for getting there from here.

Philips is recalling the software associated with its Mobile Cardiac Outpatient Telemetry devices after certain high-risk ECG events were never routed to trained cardiology technicians as intended. The issue, which lasted for two years, has been linked to more than 100 injuries.