Tahoe Forest Hospital Receives First Self-Driving Mobile Imaging Technology in the Country

Tahoe Forest is excited to announce that we are the first hospital in the country to have installed the CIARTIC Move, the latest innovation from Siemens Healthineers. This new technology speeds up and standardizes 2D and 3D imaging during surgery, making the process faster and more consistent for surgeons and operating room teams.

“We are thrilled not only to receive this amazing piece of technology, but to be the first hospital in the U.S. to put it into use,” said Louis Ward, Interim Chief Executive Officer of Tahoe Forest Health System. “We are committed to bringing the most advanced medical devices and treatments to our community, enabling our technologists and surgeons to provide the highest level of patient care.”

The CIARTIC Move is a fully motorized, self-driving C-arm that automates imaging workflows, stores up to 12 positions and imaging settings, and recalls them with a button press. This automation saves almost 50% of intraoperative time in spine surgeries and 55% in pelvic surgeries, and the system can be controlled remotely by a single user. The mobile C-arm supports complex procedures by making intraoperative imaging faster and easier. The user can fully operate the system remotely via a wireless control, even from within the sterile field.

“Siemens Healthineers is proud to introduce our first self-driving mobile C-arm, which can provide much-needed assistance during complex procedures by automating and accelerating intraoperative imaging workflows to a previously unseen degree,” said April Grandominico, Vice President for Surgical Therapies in the Advanced Therapies business line at Siemens Healthineers North America.

Learn more about the CIARTIC Move at www.siemens-healthineers.com and about Tahoe Forest Health System at TFHD.com

Photo: Tahoe Forest and Siemens Healthineers with the new CIARTIC Move, self-driving C-arm