Siemens Healthcare

Siemens Healthineers
Subsidiary
Industry Healthcare
Founded 1847
Headquarters Erlangen, Germany
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people

Bernd Montag (CEO)

Thomas Rathmann (CFO)
Products

Angiography and Interventional X-ray Systems

Computed Tomography

Radiation Oncology

Molecular Imaging

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Refurbished Systems

Services

Syngo Imaging Software

Ultrasound

X-ray Products
Number of employees
 49,000 (2010)
Parent Siemens AG
Website www.healthcare.siemens.com

Siemens Healthineers (formerly Siemens Healthcare, Siemens Medical Solutions, Siemens Medical Systems) is a medical technology company and is headquartered in Erlangen, Germany. The company dates its early beginnings in 1847 to a small family business in Berlin, co-founded by Ernst Werner von Siemens. Siemens Healthineers is connected to the larger corporation, Siemens AG, which besides healthineers, consists of three other sectors: industry, energy, infrastructure and cities. The name Siemens Medical Solutions was adopted in 2001, and the change to Siemens Healthcare was made in 2008. In May of 2016, Siemens Healthcare was renamed to Siemens Healthineers. In 2015, Siemens named Bernd Montag as its new global CEO.[1] [2]

Globally the company has 43,000 employees,[3] most of them in Germany (comparing to 46,000 at GE Healthcare and 33,000 at Philips Healthcare) and 17.2 billion US-$ sales in 2007 (16.997 billion US-$ for GE).

History

The history of Siemens Healthcare started in Berlin in the mid-19th century as a part of what is now known as Siemens AG. Siemens & Halske was founded by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske on 12 October 1847.[4] [5] The company formed around a new innovative invention created by Siemens called the pointer telegraph. Based on the telegraph, Werner von Siemens’ new invention used a needle to point to the sequence of letters, instead of using Morse code.[6] The company, then called Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske, opened its first workshop on October 12.[7] Eventually, the new company included electrometrical equipment and specialized in medical technology. [8] [9] The company saw many changes and mergers in the 20th century, becoming Siemens-Reiniger-Werke (SRW) in 1932. [10] Because it was part of the larger Siemens AG, SRW was renamed as Siemens’ Medical Technology Division in 1969. [11]

In 1896, only one year after Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered the x-ray, Siemens produced the first industrially manufactured X-ray tubes for medical diagnostics.[12] [13] Later, in 1933, Siemens introduced rotating anode tubes for x-rays that could withstand much greater electrical loads, laying the foundation for the development of modern X-ray tubes.[14]

In 1958, Elema-Schönander AB (subsequently Siemens-Elema AB) developed the first cardiac pacemaker implanted in a critically ill heart patient by surgeon, Åke Senning. [15] [16]

Siemens engineer Ralph Soldner developed the world’s first “real-time” ultrasound unit, the Vidoson, in the 1960s. [17] With this technology, technicians could view movements inside the body on a screen right while they were taking place, a feature that became especially important in obstetrics and pediatrics. [18] [19]

The company released its first computed tomography scanner, the Siretom, in 1975, a year after it exhibited its first tomographic image of a human head at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago. [20] [21] [22]

The first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner, Siemens’ MAGNETOM system, came to the market in 1983.

Siemens introduced the first track-based laboratory automation system—the ADVIA LabCell Automation Solution in 1998, allowing for increased efficiency and reduced costs. [23]

The company’s imaging devices use syngo, an image processing software developed by the company in 1999. The software provides a single user interface for a large number of imaging systems, integrating patient-specific physiological and imaging data into clinical workflows. [24][25]

Siemens was the first to combine positron emission tomography (PET) with computed tomography (CT).[26] By creating this hybrid imaging system, Siemens combined the PET scanner’s ability to visualize biological processes of life with a CT systems anatomical image of tissues and organs. In doing so, the combination system gives a more detailed image of anatomy and biological function. Time magazine named the Siemens Biograph, the world's first commercial PET-CT scanner, the "Innovation of the Year" in 2000. [27] [28] [29]

In a similar fashion, Siemens launched the Biograph mMR in 2010, the first scanner to completely combine MRI and PET technologies. .[30] [31] Like PET-CT, PET-MR hybrid systems combine multiple technologies to provide a better image of the body, enabling for better diagnoses, research and treatment plans for patients. It combines precise images of the body's organs from MRI with metabolic cell activity from PET. [32]

Organizational Structure

Geography

Siemens Healthcare is geographically divided into six regions: Central Europe, Middle East, and Africa (CEMEA), Western Europe and Western Africa (WEA), North America (NAM), Latin America (LAM), North East Asia (NEA), and Asia Pacific (APC).

Currently, its U.S. business, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., is a Delaware corporation with headquarters in Malvern, Pennsylvania.[33] [34] The Ultrasound Group is located in Issaquah, Washington.

In October 2015, David Pacitti joined Siemens Healthcare as the new President of Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. and Head of the Healthcare Region in North America.[35]

Operations

Siemens Healthcare provides a wide range of medical devices and products: Point of Care Diagnostics, Laboratory Diagnostics, Diagnostic Imaging, Ultrasound, Advanced Therapies, and Services.

Competition

Major competitors of Siemens Healthcare are GE Healthcare, Philips, Toshiba, Shimadzu in diagnostic imaging, and Abbott and Roche in laboratory diagnostics.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Prodhan, Georgina. "Siemens names new healthcare bosses, power head goes", Reuters, 26 January 2015. Retrieved on 28 January 2016.
  2. ↑ Medical Dealer. "Siemens Healthcare management reorganized with Bernd Montag as CEO", Medical Dealer, 27 January 2015. Retrieved on 28 January 2016.
  3. ↑ Siemens Corporate Website. Retrieved on 23 January 2016.
  4. ↑ "Werner von Siemens", "Wobbe Vegter",2006. Retrieved on 2 February 2016.
  5. ↑ Feldenkirchen, Wilfried.Werner von Siemens: Inventor and International Entrepreneur,1992. Print.
  6. ↑ Huurdeman, Anton A. "Electrical Telegraph in Germany",The Worldwide History of Telecommunications, 2003. Retrieved on 2 February 2016.
  7. ↑ "Founding of the 'Siemens & Halske Telegraph Construction Company,' which later became Siemens AG", Siemens AG, Retrieved on 29 September 2015.
  8. ↑ [ http://www.medmuseum.siemens.com/en/exhibit/company-history"Company History"], Siemens Healthcare Website, Retrieved on 4 February 2016.
  9. ↑ Fouse, Gary C.[ https://books.google.com/books?id=YsxhQbAa9iIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Fouse,+Gary+C.+Erlangen:+An+American's+History+of+a+German+Town.&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiC3KL9o8rKAhXJbSYKHUMsAvEQ6AEIHTAA#v=snippet&q=Reiniger%2C%20Gebbert%20&f=false “Reiniger-Gebbert-Schall- Forerunners of Siemens Medical Solutions in Eralngen”]. Erlangen: An American’s History of a German Town, 2005. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
  10. ↑ The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. “Siemens AG”, ‘’Encyclopaedia Britannica’’, Retrieved on 4 February 2016.
  11. ↑ [ http://www.medmuseum.siemens.com/en/exhibit/company-history"Company History"], Siemens Healthcare Website, Retrieved on 4 February 2016.
  12. ↑ "Healthcare", Siemens Corporate Website, Retrieved on 2 February 2016.
  13. ↑ Hess, Edward D., and Robert K. Kazanjian. "Siemens Medical Solutions: significant innovations". The Search for Organic Growth, 2006. Retrieved on 2 February 2016.
  14. ↑ [ http://enriqueta.man.ac.uk/luna/servlet/detail/Manchester~91~1~91782~105176:Pantix-X-ray-tubes “Siemens Pantix Tubes”], The University of Manchester Library Image Collections,2007. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
  15. ↑ [ http://www.siemens.com/history/en/innovations/healthcare.htm#toc-1 "Healthcare"], Siemens Corporate Website, Retrieved on 2 February 2016.
  16. ↑ Cooley, Denton A., MD. “In Memoriam: Tribute to Åke Senning, Pioneering Cardiovascular Surgeon”, ‘’ US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health’’, 2000. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  17. ↑ Woo, Joseph, Dr. “A short History of the Real-time ultrasound scanner”, ‘’Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology’’, 1998-2001. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  18. ↑ [ http://ultrasoundschoolsguide.com/history-of-ultrasound/ “The History of Ultrasound”], ‘’Ultrasound Schools Guide’’, Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  19. ↑ [ http://www.siemens.com/history/en/innovations/healthcare.htm#toc-1 "Healthcare"], Siemens Corporate Website, Retrieved on 2 February 2016.
  20. ↑ “Brief History of CT”, ‘’Imaginis’’, Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  21. ↑ [ http://www.siemens.com/history/en/innovations/healthcare.htm#toc-1 "Healthcare"], Siemens Corporate Website, Retrieved on 2 February 2016.
  22. ↑ “Original "Siretom" dedicated head CT scanner, circa 1974”, ‘’CT Scan Tips and Protocols’’, 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  23. ↑ Felder, Robin A., PhD. “Is Lab Automation Right for Your Lab?”, ‘’CAP Today’’, 2001. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  24. ↑ Casey, Brian. “Siemens emphasizes workflow at ECR”, ‘’Aunt Minnie.com”, 5 March 2001. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
  25. ↑ [ http://www.siemens.com/history/en/innovations/healthcare.htm#toc-1 "Healthcare"], Siemens Corporate Website, Retrieved on 2 February 2016.
  26. ↑ Townsend, David W.,PhD. “Combined PET/CT: the historical perspective”, ‘’US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health’’, 2008. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
  27. ↑ [ http://www.siemens.com/history/en/innovations/healthcare.htm#toc-1 "Healthcare"], Siemens Corporate Website, Retrieved on 2 February 2016.
  28. ↑ Kuhl, Helen. “PET/CT: A Dynamic Duo”, ‘’Imaging Technology News’’, 3 May 2012. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  29. ↑ [time-magazine-selects-the-combined-pet-ct-scanner-developed-by-cti-pet-systems-as-invention-of-the-year-75969742 “TIME Magazine Selects the Combined PET-CT Scanner Developed by CTI PET Systems As Invention of the Year”], ‘’PR Newswire’’, 1 December 2000. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  30. ↑ Forrest, Wayne.[ http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?sec=ser&sub=def&pag=dis&ItemID=93098 “Siemens to unveil Biograph mMR PET/MRI scanner at RSNA”], ‘’Aunt Minnie.com’’, 19 November 2010. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  31. ↑ “Siemens Healthcare Unveils Biograph mMR Whole-Body Integrated MR-PET System Capable of Simultaneous Data Acquisition “, ‘’BioSpace’’, 19 November 2011. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  32. ↑ [ http://www.siemens.com/history/en/innovations/healthcare.htm#toc-1 "Healthcare"], Siemens Corporate Website, Retrieved on 2 February 2016.
  33. ↑ Hertzler, Lauren. “Cerner’s $1.3 billion acquisition of Siemens’ health IT business completed” ‘’Philadelphia Business Journal’’], 2 February 2015. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  34. ↑ Fernandez, Bob. “Workers start moving to Malvern Siemens Medical Solutions will relocate 350 New Jersey jobs to Chester County” ‘’Philly.com’’, 22 October 2002. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  35. ↑ Pearson, Dave. “Abbott’s David Pacitti to lead Siemens North America”, ‘’Health Imaging’’, 2 October 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.

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