The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and Siemens Healthineers have announced a new strategic partnership focused on improving healthcare throughout South Carolina. The collaboration will aim to innovate in target areas such as radiology, pediatric care, cardiovascular care and neurosciences.
“We are leveraging a longstanding relationship to reshape what we can both deliver in health care,” David J. Cole, MD, MUSC president, said in a prepared statement. “Our nation is demanding that we address our fractured, costly and inefficient health care delivery systems. As the leading academic health sciences center in this state, MUSC’s purpose must be to drive the highest quality care for our patients at the lowest cost through commitment and partnerships. In discussions with the Siemens Healthineers team, we discovered a high degree of alignment with these concepts, and we are very excited to have them move forward with us.”
“Ultimately, our goal is to enable healthcare providers to get better outcomes at lower cost,” Dave Pacitti, president of North America for Siemens Healthineers, said in the same statement. “We will achieve that by empowering MUSC clinicians on this journey through four specific areas of focus—expanding precision medicine, transforming care delivery, improving the patient experience and digitalizing healthcare.”
MUSC and Siemens Healthineers have already been working together for decades. This new partnership is viewed by both sides as a way to push that relationship “to the next level” by pooling their resources together to achieve their goals.
“This strategic partnership provides each of our organizations with the ability to move to a continuum that changes what we are,” Cole said in the statement. “Make no mistake, this agreement is truly revolutionary and is unlike anything I’ve seen before. Through this process, both organizations will transform health care delivery in clinical practice, open new research pathways, and greatly enhance the exposure and involvement of our students in health care innovation.”
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