Siemens Healthineers (ETR: SHL) and DHL Supply Chain announced today that they have inked a comprehensive U.S. service logistics agreement. The agreement includes the two companies creating a 260,000 ft2 distribution center that DHL will operate in Memphis, Tenn. Get the full story on our sister site Medical Design & Outsourcing.
Siemens Healthineers wins EUAs for additional COVID-19 antibody tests
More than a week after granting EUAs for COVID-19 antibody tests produced by Siemens Healthineers (ETR: SHL), FDA has authorized additional tests from the German medtech giant. The new EUAs, granted June 8, are for tests running on Siemens Healthineers Dimension Vista and Dimension® EXL systems. The tests already started shipping on May 29. Siemens Healthineers previously […]
Siemens, Geisinger ink 10-year deal
Siemens Healthineers (ETR: SHL) and Geisinger Health have signed a 10-year deal for Siemens to provide digital health innovations, diagnostic imaging equipment and on-site staff support. Siemens will also provide education and workflow resources to the staff of Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health. The contract marks an expansion of a previous relationship between the health system and Siemens. Get the […]
Siemens Healthineers secures EUA for its COVID-19 antibody test
Siemens Healthineers (ETR: SHL) announced today that it has secured an FDA emergency use authorization for its COVID-19 antibody test. The news comes nearly a week after the German medtech giant said it had started worldwide shipments of the test — a laboratory-based total antibody test that can detect SARS-CoV-2 antibodies including IgM and IgG in blood. […]
Siemens Healthineers to produce 50m antibody tests per month against COVID-19
Siemens Healthineers (ETR: SHL) said today that it has started worldwide shipments of its COVID-19 antibody test, with a goal of producing 50 million tests per month as the pandemic evolves. The German medtech giant also announced that FDA has granted an emergency use authorization for its PCR Fast Track Diagnostics (FTD) SARS-CoV-2 Assay6 test kit. Both […]
Siemens Healthineers seeking EUA for its coronavirus test kit
Siemens Healthineers (ETR: SHL) announced today that it is making its Fast Track Diagnostics (FTD) test kit for COVID-19 available as it seeks FDA emergency use authorization (EUA) and other forms of regulatory approval. The FTD SARS-CoV-2 assay kit is designed to diagnose infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes coronavirus. Siemens Healthineers is already shipping test […]
FDA clears Siemens Healthineers blood analyzer
Siemens Healthineers (ETR: SHL) announced today that it won FDA clearance for its RapidPoint 500e blood gas analyzer for diagnosing and monitoring people in the intensive care unit, operating room or emergency room. RapidPoint 500e is designed to generate blood gas, electrolyte, metabolite, CO-oximetry and neonatal bilirubin results that are then used to diagnose and […]
Software is enabling medical 3D printing innovation: Here’s how
The 3D printers themselves get a lot of attention, but for 3D-printing to become ubiquitous in the medtech space, software will have to play a key role. A 3D printer without software to tell it where to place the material is a really nice, expensive coffee table, according to Scott Rader, a former Stratasys GM […]
These medical device companies provide the most research payments
The worlds largest medical device companies are spending tens of millions of dollars a year on research payments to doctors and teaching hospitals — but the payments only make up a tiny fraction of their budgets. That was a big takeaway from an analysis of Medical Design & Outsourcing‘s annual Big 100 and the most […]
Report: Mayo Clinic to try Corindus telestenting
Mayo Clinic researchers this spring plan to try out Corindus’ telestenting technology — which Mayo officials think could improve care in the rural hospitals in their network, according to a report in the Star Tribune of Minneapolis. Corindus told MassDevice‘s sister site Medical Design & Outsourcing in 2018 that the company had a partnership with […]
Siemens Healthineers lands FDA clearance for two CT systems
Siemens Healthineers this week said it won FDA clearance for its Somatom go.Sim and Somtom go.Open Pro computed tomography systems. The CT systems are designed for radiation therapy planning and are members of the company’s Somatom go. platform of devices. Get the full story on our sister site, Medical Design & Outsourcing.
