Siemens Healthcare

Siemens Healthcare is one of the world's largest suppliers to the healthcare industry and a trendsetter in medical imaging, laboratory diagnostics, medical information technology, and hearing aids. Siemens offers its customers products and solutions for the entire range of patient care. By optimizing clinical workflows for the most common diseases, Siemens is making healthcare faster, better, and more cost-effective. Siemens Healthcare (formerly Siemens Medical Solutions, formerly Siemens Medical Systems, internally within Siemens known as ''Med'') is a supplier to the healthcare industry and is headquartered in Erlangen, Germany. Currently, its U.S. division, Siemens Healthcare USA, Inc., is a Delaware corporation, with headquarters in Malvern, Pennsylvania. The company dates its early beginnings in 1847 to a small family business in Berlin, co-founded by Ernst Werner von Siemens. The name Siemens Medical Solutions was adopted in 2001, and the change to Siemens Healthcare is part of a reorganization underway in 2008. President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Siemens Healthcare USA, Inc., is Gregory Sorensen, MD. Globally it has 49,000 employees, most of them in Germany, and 17.2 billion US-$ sales in 2007 (16.997 billion US-$ for GE).

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