In March, HeartFlow announced at the American College of Cardiology scientific meeting a non-exclusive partnership with Siemens Healthineers bringing together Siemens CT and HeartFlow’s FFRct technology.

“Typically, you have to take the patient into the cath lab and do a diagnostic procedure to obtain this FFR measurement,” Matthew Dedman, director of strategic corporate accounts for CT diagnostic imaging at Siemens Healthineers told HCB News at the time. “Now, that measurement can be obtained noninvasively through the HeartFlow FFRct analysis. It’s a much better clinical pathway to avoid those unnecessary procedures — it’s better for the patient, it saves time, it saves money overall for the health care system.”

The arrangement will enable “a very seamless transmission of the data through our Siemens cloud to HeartFlow and then back by that same mechanism to the hospital,” he added.
“It makes the workflow easier for the radiologists and imaging cardiologists,” said John Stevens, chairman and chief executive officer of HeartFlow.

In March, HeartFlow reported that its technology was being used by nearly 60 customers around the world, Stevens said.

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