Siemens Healthineers : and Universal Medical Imaging reach an agreement to promote 5G remote imaging diagnosis for primary care in China’s regions (2024)

between grassroots medical staff and imaging experts in large cities. The intention of our collaboration with Universal Medical Imaging is to build a primary medical ecosystem of 5G remote imaging diagnostics with the help of their expert resources and the technical advantages of Siemens Healthineers' 5G remote scanning assistant technology. This will allow primary healthcare staff to improve their skills and promote the implementation of a tiered healthcare service."

In China, Universal Medical Imaging is a leader in the domestic independent third-party medical imaging industry. The company employs more than 500 medical imaging physicians in over 30 cities across the country. By integrating high-quality resources from all over China, they can provide patients with imaging diagnoses of general diseases, but also cancer and cardiovascular and neurovascular diseases, offer multidisciplinary joint consultations, and more.

Chairman of Universal Medical Imaging, Yang Huanqiu, affirms: "By establishing this strategic partnership with Siemens Healthineers, we hope to leverage high-quality medical equipment 5G remote scanning assistant technology in order to provide diagnoses of difficult diseases for basic-level patients and better serve them in general."

As an industry leader in digital healthcare technology, Siemens Healthineers launched and continues to update its 5G remote scanning assistant technology in China. This solution enables grassroots hospitals to obtain guidance from remote experts for many procedures, including patient positioning, setting scanning parameters, real-time scanning, image post- processing, realizing real-time standardized remote diagnoses, and ultimately enabling grassroots patients to seek local medical treatment in a timely manner. Siemens Healthineers' 5G remote scanning assistant technology can be used in China with most of the company's imaging equipment, including ultrasound, CT, MR, PET/CT, and PET/MR. It is available in more than 200 hospitals with a total remote service time of more than 400,000 minutes last year.

The products/features and/or service offerings here mentioned are only commercially available in China and/or not for all modalities. If the services are not marketed in countries due to regulatory or other reasons, the service offering cannot be guaranteed. Please contact your local Siemens Healthineers organization for further details.

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Universal Medical Imaging, founded in 2011, is the first third-party imaging center in China. It provides customers with professional image investigation and deep physical examination service. It positions itself as "pioneer in precise image investigation", "practitioner in deep physical examination" and "individual medical service provider". www.uvclinic.cn