Siemens passes 100 installs of syngo.via

Siemens Healthcare says that it has passed 100 installations worldwide of its sygo.via, its imaging software for multimodality reading of clinical cases.

Siemens says that use of sygo.info is helping clinicians achieve significant workflow efficiency gains, using syngo.via combined with advanced visualisation tools and automated processes leading to faster reading times and lowered costs.

The platform syngo.via integrates imaging devices, such as MRI, CT, and PET-CT scanners with Radiology Information Systems (RIS) and Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) of leading vendors, including Siemens’ newest PACS solution, syngo.plaza.

The company says that syngo.via helps increase reading efficiency across multiple specialties, including oncology, cardiology, and neurology – enabling clinicians to effortlessly access state-of-the-art advanced visualization tools across the clinical spectrum.

One early customer is Dr. Barton Milestone, vice chair, diagnostic imaging and director of MRI, Fox Chase Cancer Center, PA, US. He said of the solution: "syngo.via’s speed and advanced applications are some of the things that impress me the most about this solution."

“In the past, a lot of time was spent for routine cardiac imaging – anywhere from 30 to 50 minutes for a patient with benign results,” said Peter Sögner, MD, Department of Radiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria. “Today with syngo.via, if the vessels are normal, in case of coronaries without stenoses, you can perform the same task in one minute."

“We have a high workload in our institution, so time is of the essence,” states Prof. Dr. Gudrun Feuchtner, Department of Radiology II, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria. “With syngo.via, I can complete readings quickly and efficiently – in just minutes. Not only does this make my work easier, it allows for faster patient results.”