Siemens Healthcare

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.