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Siemens Healthineers In Line With Future Trends As It Mines Workflow And Outcomes Seams

 
• By Ashley Yeo

Siemens Healthineers  ̶  an engineering company by background – sees itself well positioned to benefit from the markets’ movement towards digital, workflows, robotics and minimally-invasive procedures. As such, it has advantages over pharma companies in being able to deliver better patient outcomes at lower cost and more effectively.

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Siemens Healthineers might be forgiven for congratulating itself on its track record and upwards trajectory in its three business segments less than two years after its March 2018 IPO and establishment as a stand-alone manufacturer. The €14.5bn ($16.2bn) revenues company retains the innovation-driven culture of the wider Siemens group, and shares its business code, but is now both more mobile and visible as a health-care player.

Addressing Jefferies Healthcare delegates, Healthineers’ CFO Jochen Schmitz said that that company has a very real and clear purpose, now...

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