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The people behind our inventions

In our #Futureshaper series, we introduce employees whose innovative ideas are contributing to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare: whether in technical development, in creative business management or in product design.

Siemens Healthineers is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies. With our products and solutions, we enable healthcare providers to raise the quality of their services, helping people all around the world to live healthier and longer lives. 

We do this through innovation: constantly asking new questions, keeping abreast of technological trends, and overcoming obstacles. But innovation is only possible with people who are truly passionate about making it happen. Whether they are technical developers, creative business managers, or product designers – we tell their stories in our #Futureshaper series:

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Architecture and the future of hospitals

Revolutionizing hospital design and planning

Architect Stefanie Vonhoff and her team plan the hospital departments of the future — with the help of 3D visualization, extended reality, and digital twins.

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Hygienic devices

Our task force fighting hospital germs

Surface specialist Martin Seifert collaborates with an interdisciplinary team of experts to develop hygienic product solutions for medical devices – supporting hospitals in their fight against hospital-acquired infections (HAI).

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Point of care testing for high-sensitivity Troponin I

Heartfelt innovation for emergency care situations

Femke de Theije and team chose to follow their hearts and, in doing so, are helping to save the hearts of others: They developed a handheld device that reduces heart attack diagnosis from one hour down to eight minutes. Here's how they did it.

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Cancer care

How AI architects are constructing the future of radiotherapy

A quantum leap in cancer treatment? Artificial intelligence could optimize the planning process for radiation therapy and reduce waiting times for patients from weeks to just hours. Learn how concept designer Fernando Vega and team aim to achieve this goal.

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Big data

The data conductor

In order to develop artificial intelligence for use in medical technology, our research scientists need one thing above all: colossal quantities of all kinds of correct and secure medical data. Ren-Yi Lo, Head of our Big Data Office, is in charge of collecting, preparing, and organizing these data.

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Digitalizing healthcare

An Explorer of Extended Reality

Is there a future for medical technology without extended reality (XR)? Unthinkable, says XR Senior Key Expert Anton Ebert. This versatile "cross-border commuter" roaming between diverse disciplines sees XR as a key technology that builds bridges – between the human world and digital worlds.

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Digital Twin

Shikha's journey to the “patient twin”

Computer scientist Shikha Chaganti is doing research work to develop a smartphone app that will enable users to generate a "health avatar" of themselves – created by artificial intelligence. Is this the next step towards the visionary "patient twin"?

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User experience

The woman who shapes products

Giving our products their distinctive "face": this is the job of industrial designer Stefanie Gügel-Wild and her team colleagues. Our product design is backed by a complex development process based on design thinking and user experience.

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Innovation culture

A team player in innovation

Christian Hofmann directs the innovation process for computed tomography at Siemens Healthineers. Find out how the Direct i4D solution he initiated can make the treatment of lung and liver cancer patients more precise, and why innovation only succeeds in a team.
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Innovation culture

When a “child prodigy” in physics comes of age

Silvia Arroyo Camejo became a scientific author already as a teenager. Today, she's a data scientist helping to make MRI scanners even smarter, powered by artificial intelligence. Our #Futureshaper series kicks off with a feature portrait of this passionate physicist.

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