GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare includes the health services of the American General Electric Company, one of the most actively traded conglomerates in the world. GE Healthcare is headquartered in Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire in the UK. GE Healthcare reported 2008 global sales of 17.3 billion U.S. dollars and employs over 46,000 people.

The portfolio includes medical technologies and services in the areas of medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies.

Divisions

  • GE Healthcare Systems
  • GE Healthcare Life Sciences
  • GE Healthcare Medical Diagnostics
  • GE Healthcare IT
  • GE Healthcare Surgery

Other services are

  • GE HC Financial Services, financing solutions (rent or lease ) for medical equipment.
  • GE Gold Seal, trade in used medical equipment.

Management

  • President and CEO John Dineen
  • President and CEO, Global Diagnostic Imaging Mark Vachon
  • President and CEO Clinical Systems: Omar Ishrak
  • President and CEO Life Sciences: Kieran Murphy
  • President and CEO, Medical Diagnostics Pascale Witz
  • President and CEO, IT and Performance Solutions: Jan de Witte
  • CEO Surgery: Pete McCabe
  • President and CEO, GE Healthcare, International: Reinaldo Garcia
  • Chief Quality Officer: Dee Mellor

GE Healthcare in Germany

GE Healthcare is represented in Germany, with around 1,800 employees in 11 locations, including in Munich, Solingen, thorn town, Wendelstein, Berlin, Hamburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Brunswick and Dassel. Principal place of business is Munich. President and CEO of GE Healthcare Germany is Wetekam.

The location of Freiburg in direct succession from the Marquette Hellige, which was bought by GE in 1996 with the parent company, Marquette Medical Systems.

Company divisions

  • GE Healthcare GmbH (formerly GE Medical Systems Germany GmbH and GE ultrasound Germany GmbH): Diagnostic Imaging, Ultrasound
  • GE Medical Systems Information Technologies GmbH: Clinical Systems
  • GE Healthcare Information Technologies GmbH & Co. KG: IT solutions
  • GE Healthcare Europe GmbH: Life Sciences

GE Healthcare in Austria and Switzerland

In Austria, there are locations in Zipf ( about Neukirchen an der Vöckla ), Traun ( near Linz ) and in Vienna

In Switzerland there is a location in Glattbrugg near Zurich.

Structural data

GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 employees in over 100 countries. The turnover is over 16 billion U.S. dollars. (Revenues from 2000 to 2006: 6.2 to 7.3 - 8.4 to 9.0 - 13.5 to 15.2 - 16.6 billion U.S. dollars)

Research and development budget: ~ 1 billion U.S. dollars

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