Diagnostic suite helps doctors manage diabetes in primary care facilities

Siemens Healthineers and Hill-Rom announced a collaboration to provide physicians with a suite of point-of-care diagnostic instruments that will allow for comprehensive diabetes care at primary care facilities.

“Hill-Rom and Siemens Healthineers share a common vision to put patients on a better path to health care by providing solutions that allow our customers to transform care delivery with greater efficiency and effectiveness,” Alton Shader, president of Hill-Rom’s Front Line Care business, including Welch Allyn, said in a joint press release.

The integrated suite of diagnostic tools will include DCA Vantage Analyzer for HbA1c testing and the Clinitek Status Urine Chemistry Analyzer for kidney checks from Siemens Healthineers and the Welch Allyn RetinaVue Network and imaging technology for teleretinal exams from Hill-Rom, the companies said.

The Siemens Healthineers technologies focuses on “combating chronic diseases before they become critical” by monitoring glycemic control and kidney status, while Hill-Rom’s will allow physicians to conduct diabetic retinal exams during an office visit, according to the release.

The diagnostic suite is patient centered and allows physicians to test and treat patients in a single visit, which Siemens Healthineers and Hill-Rom hope will increase patient satisfaction and health care regimen compliance, according to the release.

“A patient’s quality of life declines significantly when chronic diseases remain untreated, which is why testing for comorbidities is so important,” Mike Sampson, senior vice president of Point of Care Diagnostics at Siemens Healthineers, said in the release. “Our new commercial relationship with Hill-Rom will provide holistic, easy-to-implement solutions that aid in combating diabetes and related comorbidities while satisfying value-based quality care measures. With operator-friendly analyzers that generate lab-quality results in minutes and capabilities to integrate test results with electronic health records, physicians can make immediate treatment decisions and improve long-term outcomes.”