February 13, 2017 -- Siemens Healthineers -- Helping connect healthcare experts and increasing the usability of the wealth of medical imaging data – that’s the goal of ‘teamplay’, the new solution from Siemens Healthineers, now available in Canada.

This cloud-based network1 helps link hospitals and healthcare experts to provide them with the ability to exchange data and pool their knowledge. Within hospitals, ‘teamplay’ makes it possible to evaluate the extensive amount of information generated by imaging devices – e.g. scanner capacity utilization, examination times or radiation doses – and to compare the numbers against in-house and third–party reference values. This means imaging devices can be analyzed in close to real-time and their operation optimized based on the results.

As ‘teamplay’ runs on tablets, laptops, and desktop PCs, members of the network have flexible access to the information, subject to the appropriate authorization and security measures.


“Siemens Healthineers products are used to diagnose or treat around 200,000 patients around the world every hour. In the process, our customers generate a vast amount of data, but they currently can use only a fraction of the information,” says Steve Mainguy, Business Line Manager, Digital Health Services, Siemens Healthineers Canada. “‘teamplay’ is intended to help healthcare practitioners combine the mass of data available to them, analyze it and exchange it with other experts, forming the basis for prompt and well informed decision-making.”

An easy-to-install DICOM application connects to the ‘teamplay’ user network. Data relevant for the valuation is de-identified and encrypted for transmission to the ‘teamplay’ cloud, where it can be accessed at any time with the appropriate authorization.

The ‘teamplay’ dashboard allows users to read the information they want to read at a glance: how many patients were examined; how long the average examination took; what the capacity utilization of the various modalities or individual scanners are; how long the interval is between individual examinations. In graphical form, ‘teamplay’ provides answers to these and other questions, all designed to help imaging departments work more effectively.

The ‘teamplay’ network can also be used to monitor the doses applied by medical devices. As with all examinations involving ionizing radiation, it is essential in these cases to apply dose only as low as reasonably achievable. ‘teamplay’ can continuously monitor the dose used, broken down by the parts of the body volumes being examined. Here, too, target values can be defined and deviations clearly shown.

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