What is integrated diagnostics?
In a healthcare environment where physicians, radiologists, pathologists — even patients —already work as a team, where will the next generation of optimized care emerge? The answer is integrated diagnostics: fully coordinated laboratory diagnostics (in-vitro diagnostics) and imaging technology (in-vivo diagnostics) that provide interpreted, action-oriented results at every stage of the patient-care continuum.

Siemens can help you use the right technology at the right time to drive quality improvements, strengthen cost containment and positively influence patient outcomes. Over the long term, the benefits of integrated diagnostics include:

• More patient-centric healthcare. Reduce reactive, late-stage disease management, and increase pre-symptomatic disease detection, preventive and targeted care.
• Better outcomes. Make more valuable diagnoses at earlier stages of disease. The result will be improved quality of life for patients.
• Decreasing costs over time. Streamlined workflow leads to earlier and quicker diagnoses and can drive savings to the bottom line — creating a competitive advantage for healthcare providers that stay ahead of the curve.

By truly integrating diagnostics, the efficiency and accuracy of patient care can improve dramatically during screening, diagnosis, treatment and monitoring.