NYU Langone Health renewed its five-year contract with a longtime supplier, providing the medical center with advanced AI imaging equipment and a $100 million add-on for after-hours technical support.

The November partnership was finalized with Siemens Healthineers, NYU Langone’s equipment provider for over two decades. It will cover the cost of MRIs, ultrasounds, X-ray machines and other imaging equipment for over 300 hospitals and outpatient locations across Manhattan, Brooklyn and Long Island. The $100 million integrated service management contract will offer 24/7 services to address maintenance or equipment issues on behalf of the hospital.  

The German company, which has partnered with NYU Langone since 2002, is currently working to integrate Deep Resolve Boost, an AI-driven model that speeds up MRI scans and turns its data into viewable images that detect unseen tumors. The technology has already been used several times for research and clinical trials at NYU Langone.

“The time it takes for the image to capture part of the patient’s experience can be shortened by up to half,” Siemens Healthineers spokesperson Julie Gibson told WSN. “The AI can reassemble the image in a sharper way than the original image capture, due to the AI training on millions of medical images.” 

The partnership also inspired the standard for Siemens Healthineers’ commercially available scanner, which was implemented in 2024 when NYU Langone radiologists pioneered a way for producing high-quality abdominal scans. The scans allow patients, who may be too young or frail, to breathe normally during scans instead of traditional methods that require repeated breath holds.

Siemens Healthineers boasts a 38% market share in imaging technology, and is the only company that supplies photon-counting CT — the most advanced form of computed tomography. NYU Langone leads the nation in imaging-dependent specialties like heart and brain surgery, and its radiology department images over 300,000 patients annually to diagnose conditions such as bone fractures, tumors and pneumonia. 

“Our team is constantly searching for ways to maximize productivity and improve patient care,” NYU Langone’s radiology department chair, Michael Recht, said in the press release. “We look forward to working closely with Siemens Healthineers in a long-term partnership in pursuit of these core goals.”

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