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Asset Planning SessionData and dialogue to drive your imaging decisions

An Asset Planning Session can help you make the most informed decisions about your imaging systems. We work with you and your stakeholders to identify your organization’s needs, review your challenges, and determine how to best maximize the potential and lifespan of your installed Siemens systems.

From system inventory to optimization, an Asset Planning Session uncovers opportunities to expand your clinical capabilities, minimize costs, improve competitiveness, and more. Whether it’s system options and upgrades—or even new or refurbished equipment—the Asset Planning Session delivers the data and dialogue to help you make the best decisions for keeping pace with innovation and driving your business forward.

Asset Planning Session benefits at a glance:

Maximize system potential while minimizing costs
Improve system utilization and process efficiency
Standardize systems and workflow
Expand clinical capabilities to help attract more referrals and increase competitiveness
Leverage Siemens’ system and industry expertise
Establish a multi-year investment plan and budget

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Interested?
Email us at assetplanning.healthcare@siemens.com or contact your Siemens representative to schedule your complimentary Asset Planning Session. Together, we can uncover the best ways to maximize the potential of your Siemens systems.

About the Session

As part of a complimentary Asset Planning Session, we review your market’s demographic and epidemiologic data, including health risk factors, disease prevalence, and projected demand for imaging procedures. We measure patient throughput, exam times, and study volumes of your Siemens systems. And we consider your strategic goals in light of projected market demand and current benchmarks.

All of this data and dialogue fuels the creation of an impartial, evidence-based asset plan, which identifies and helps you budget for investments that can extend the life of your Siemens systems.

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What is an Asset Planning Session?

An Asset Planning Session is a unique service from Siemens Healthcare designed to help you establish a multi-year plan and budget for keeping your imaging systems current. The session combines your understanding of your business and market with our expertise in system capabilities and optimization. During the session, we evaluate market demographics and trends and identify growth opportunities. We examine system configurations, interpret utilization data compared to industry benchmarks, and explore areas for improvement. Together, we create an asset plan that outlines the system options and upgrades that best support your business and clinical goals.

Why is an Asset Planning Session valuable for your organization?

The Asset Planning Session identifies opportunities to extend the life of your Siemens systems by establishing clear upgrade paths to our latest technology. Maximizing the potential of your systems with options and upgrades can help you expand clinical capabilities, improve process efficiency, reduce costs, and be more competitive in your market.

Who participates in an Asset Planning Session?

Key influencers and decision-makers from your organization’s executive team and radiology and cardiology departments, including the CEO and CFO, directors, managers, and lead technologists, are encouraged to participate in the Asset Planning Session. The Siemens team generally is comprised of your account executive, asset management executive, product specialists, and other key personnel.

Where will an Asset Planning Session be held?

The Siemens team works with you to determine the best place for the Asset Planning Session. Typically, holding the session at your location is most convenient for all of your organization’s participants.

How do you initiate an Asset Planning Session for your organization?

To schedule an Asset Planning Session, simply contact your Siemens representative. Your representative assembles all of the necessary market and system data and coordinates the Siemens specialists to participate in the session.

Substantial Elements

Essential Elements of an Asset Planning Session

Market Analysis

A market analysis examines projected trends and developments within your region of operation, including health risk factors, disease prevalence, and potential demand for imaging procedures, so that you can prepare your systems now for future needs.

Utilization Analysis

A utilization analysis* shows your patient throughput and exam times and volumes for each system. We use this data to establish benchmarks to comparable facilities and identify where workflow or clinical improvements could be beneficial.

* Depends on the availability of system utilization management data

Strategy Discussion

The strategy discussion focuses on your business requirements and challenges, such as expanding clinical capabilities, cutting costs, reducing radiation exposure, and improving patient satisfaction. We listen to your ideas for addressing these needs and challenges and discuss cost-efficient solutions for inclusion in your customized asset plan.

Configuration Overview

The configuration overview shows a side-by-side comparison of your installed Siemens systems. It details the systems’ age, available options and upgrades, and any prerequisites.

Asset Management Plan

The asset plan details development opportunities for your existing Siemens systems and their associated costs. You can utilize the plan to achieve your defined short- and long-term business goals and keep pace with market demands.

Interested?

Email us at assetplanning.healthcare@siemens.com or contact your Siemens representative to schedule your complimentary Asset Planning Session. Together, we can uncover the best ways to maximize the potential of your Siemens systems.

Download Asset Planning Session Brochure

Customer Testimonials

Asset Planning Session

Data and dialogue to drive your imaging decisions

Success Story: Asset Planning at Women & Infants Hospital
Learn how the hospital used asset planning from Siemens Healthcare to optimize its MR service line within a newly formed ACO.

“Asset Planning Sessions validate that the old, silo-focused planning process for capital assets and volume growth is inefficient for both short- and long-term forecasting.”
— Charles Deschamps, Diagnostic Imaging Site Manager, Women & Infants Hospital

Read the success story.

Steven Huckabaa
Vice President, Supply Chain Management
BioMed Services & Innovation Center
Kettering Health Network

“… it is helpful to have a partner who is able to share with us what the demographics that they see, because what Siemens sees is a broader application of the equipment in the market than what we see. So it’s helpful to have that information.”

Fred Manchur, CEO, Kettering Health Network — Fred Manchur
Chief Executive Officer
Kettering Health Network

"The Asset Planning Session that we had with Siemens, was really a first for our organization. I’ve never had a vendor come to us and say, Fred, we can help you. We can help your organization.”

"… that’s unusual. Most vendors want to come in and sell. They want to tell you the latest and the greatest and the best. And in this case, yes we did accomplish some of that. But in the long run, for our organization, it gave us a chance to understand what we were doing. Where we were doing it. And how we could improve on offering that service."

Did this information help you?

The foregoing analysis is provided to evaluate the business potential of a certain offering and can support the assessment of future equipment acquisitions. In no event does Siemens make (i) any express or implied warranties with respect to any use of this tool or (ii) any guarantees regarding actual results (e.g., profits, cash flow or return on investment), which will vary based on numerous factors outside the control of Siemens. In addition, actual revenues and expenses will vary depending on the specific operating costs, types and number of procedures performed, reimbursement amounts, and many other factors of an institution. Prior to the expansion of service and the acquisition of any medical equipment, each institution should consider seeking independent advice (including financial and legal advice) with respect to current and future demand for healthcare services as well as the assumptions necessary to complete the analysis set forth in this tool.