Siemens wins Frost & Sullivan healthcare IT award

  • 20 October 2004


Frost & Sullivan have given this year’s Healthcare Information Technology Company of the Year Award to Siemens Medical Solutions, which is judged under criteria including technological innovation, market growth and penetration and customer service.


The award was conferred after Frost & Sullivan analysed and researched the European healthcare IT market for the company most deserving of the award. Sectors that were examined include customers and market participants, as well as technology innovations and the suppliers themselves.


Healthcare analyst Siddharth Saha said Siemens had been given the award for several reasons, and named their “outstanding solutions and services that improve operational efficiencies, optimise workflow across various healthcare settings, and consistently enable customers to realise solid, sustainable clinical and financial outcomes”. This has “underlined Siemens Medical Solutions’ leadership of the European healthcare information technology industry".


Siemens were praised for ‘trailblazing’ IT solutions, including the SIENET imaging information system, which Frost & Sullivan described as a market first. Another system Frost & Sullivan praised was Soarian, a portable clinical data processing programme that Saha said is designed to “provide patient medical records on an anywhere, anytime basis."


Frost & Sullivan have predicted that Siemens will continue to be a major player in the European healthcare IT market, due to the number of people who recognise the brandname and what Saha calls a “highly fragmented" market.

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