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Healthcare access for all Pioneering breakthroughs to provide healthcare access for all.

Providing healthcare for all means forging a healthcare system that is universally accessible and addresses the needs of today and tomorrow. For healthcare providers, this involves tackling social determinants of health and overcoming infrastructural barriers. 
Discover stories of global pioneers who are making healthcare accessible in their communities and be inspired by their journeys.

  • Reach underserved: Providing access to underserved communities by bringing care closer to patients and establishing innovative care solutions and digitalization.
  • Diagnose early: Fostering early diagnosis and shifting to preventive care to keep communities healthy and avoid late, high-cost treatments.
  • Educate and train: Strengthening healthcare workforce capacity and capability by providing local, customized, and digitally enhanced education and trainings solutions. 

These levers can bring care to those who need it the most.

Reach underserved


Expanding healthcare access in underserved communities is a critical issue. It involves overcoming barriers in remote locations, addressing the challenges of inadequate infrastructure, and healthcare workforce shortage.

Different strategies can overcome different aspects of those challenges:  

  • Bring care closer to patients, with innovative delivery methods, such as implementing mobile clinics or using drones for blood sample transportation, adopting new care systems like hub-and-spoke-models and leveraging innovative technology. 
  • Build and transform local healthcare systems by joining forces with global entities and local partners that offer sustainable business models and financing options and by making use of digital advancements, like remote scanning and consultation solutions.


Dr. Aarthi Prasanna speaks about her family's vision, to provide accessible healthcare throughout India with AarthiScans & Labs, headquartered in Chennai.

Dr. Aarthi Prasanna speaks about the importance of standardization and digitalizing the entire patient journey. 

Diagnose early


When healthcare access is limited, it can create a dangerous and costly cycle in which late diagnosis and therapy lead to suboptimal health outcomes. The following measures help to foster early diagnosis, better outcomes and lower costs:

  • Establish screening programs of e.g. lung, liver and breast cancer to facilitate early detection and intervention, leveraging also mobile diagnostic units to bring diagnostics to rural areas.
  • Shift to outpatient care to provide cost-effective, convenient, and safer care, encouraging earlier healthcare engagement. 

Dr. David J Cole, M.D., FACS  from the Medical University of South Carolina speaks about importance of screening for early diagnosis, having resources locally to engage patients and deliver on needed follow-up. All to increase health outcomes at lower costs.  



Dr. David J. Cole talks about MUSC's growth, which has allowed them to expand into rural areas where most of their underserved communities live. With this regional presence, they are living their core values of putting patients and families first and delivering care locally.  


Educate and train

The ongoing shortage of healthcare workers is a significant obstacle to expanding access to medical care. This shortage hampers the effective operation of medical technologies and limits the quality of care. The following measures help to address this issue and ensure communities have the skilled personnel necessary:   

  • Offer local training programs to build up local capacities with customized, on-site training in local language covering technical, clinical, and business topics.
  • Leverage digitalization for knowledge sharing strengthening on-site capabilities via easy remote scanning and real-time access to expert knowledge and coaching.


Alameda healthcare is committed to bringing their healthcare services to countries across Africa and the Middle East. Jasmine Singh explains, how they send out their best employees to share their expertise by performing surgeries or health care in general. They also train local staff on-site to creates a lasting, sustainable impact on the local workforce.  

The best staff is the workforce that serves in their own communities. Listen to Dr. Aarthi Prasanna how AarthiScans & Labs ensures a standardized and high level of education.

Working together

At Siemens Healthineers, we are committed to supporting our customers and partners. We innovate to enable our products to perform at a high level in low-resource settings, allowing the necessary technology to reach underserved populations in their communities. 

 


 

Our commitment to sustainability

We are committed to improving healthcare access for all, limiting our environmental impact as we pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare, and engaging our diverse Healthineers to achieve impact on a global scale – these are the three pillars of our sustainability strategy. Find out more about our concrete targets, how we want to achieve them, and see our latest progress in the detailed Sustainability Report 2023.

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The statements by Siemens’ customers described herein are based on results that were achieved in the customer’s unique setting. Since there is no “typical” hospital and many variables exist (e.g. hospital size, case mix, level of IT adoption) there can be no guarantee that other customers will achieve the same results. 

The information in this film was prepared by Siemens Healthineers AG and reflects solely the opinion of the corporation. Nothing in this video shall be constructed to imply any supports or endorsement of Siemens Healthineers, or any of its products, by The Regents of the University of California, its officers, agents and employees.