Across the globe, chronic kidney disease, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and obesity continue to place a growing burden on healthcare systems. Many of these conditions develop silently, often remaining undetected until significant damage has already occurred.

In this episode of Healthcare Perspectives, host Angela Neale, Physician Assistant (PA), healthcare leader at Siemens Healthineers, and advocate for patient-centered care, is joined by Dr. Salvatore Viscomi, Founder and CEO of Carna Health, who specializes in population health, primary care, and early kidney disease intervention.

What you’ll learn:

• Why kidney disease is often diagnosed late — and what earlier detection can change
• How kidney disease, diabetes, and cardiovascular health are connected
• The role of point-of-care testing in identifying risk sooner
• Why patient education can support better decisions
• How proactive primary care can help people take a more active role in managing their health

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Healthcare systems around the world are under increasing pressure to reduce their environmental footprint without compromising access to care, quality, or patient safety.

One often overlooked opportunity is the refurbishment of imaging systems. By giving imaging systems a second life, healthcare providers can help preserve resources while continuing to deliver clinical performance.

In this episode, host Julia Andes, Head of Lifecycle Products at Siemens Healthineers, is joined by MUDr. Diana Scheel MHBA, cardiac imaging specialist and member of the German Radiological Society; as well as Prof. PD Dr. Bernhard Scharinger, MSc, EdiR, EBCR, board-certified radiologist and running his own private practice.

What you’ll learn:

• Why healthcare has a significant environmental footprint and why procurement decisions matter

• How refurbished imaging systems can reduce resource consumption and emissions

• What motivated radiologist Prof. Dr. Scharinger decide on a refurbished CT system

• Why sustainability and excellent patient care can go hand in hand

• Practical ways healthcare providers can start acting more sustainably

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Across the globe, radiology departments are grappling with a paradox: imaging volumes are climbing while the trained workforce needed to operate scanners is shrinking.

Using AI-driven tools, a drive towards fully-automated radiology promises faster diagnoses, greater diagnostic accuracy, and more efficient workflows, improving both the patient and clinician experience. It is rapidly transforming the way medical imaging is performed, analyzed, and integrated into imaging workflows.

The success of this development relies strongly on intuitive and impactful user experience, or UX, design. Effective UX is integral to ensuring that patients and clinicians can use smart healthcare systems in ways that maintain safety and integrity and enhance user experience. The question is no longer whether higher levels of automation will play a role in radiology — it's how quickly, and where to begin.

Today, host Iwona Markuszewska welcomes Dr. Shivakumar Swamy S, Head and Director of the Radiology Department and Clinical Director of the Department of Radiomics and Radiogenomics at HCG Cancer care in Bangalore, India; Dr. Yair Safriel, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Pharmascan and MEC Chair of Radiology at Morton Plant Hospital Association in Clearwater, Florida; and Ralf Bauer, radiologist and partner at RNS joint practice in Wiesbaden, Germany, to examine the future of automation in radiology.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• Rising imaging demand, an aging population, and lack of trained technologists have pushed the radiology system to its breaking point
• How higher levels of automation can ease this challenge and which types of exams may be the easiest entry point to introducing higher levels of automation in imaging operations
• Automation starts way before image acquisition and can be implemented easily as early as in the patient check-in process
• Patient trust and ease of use are of utmost importance for any automation in radiology is to be widely implemented
• Automation will make it easier for healthcare professionals to spend more time with patients and with more complex, time-intensive cases

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