Siemens Healthcare now known as Siemens Healthineers

May 4, 2016 -- German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG has changed the name of its Siemens Healthcare business to Siemens Healthineers.

Siemens said the new brand name "underlines Siemens Healthcare's pioneering spirit and its engineering expertise in the healthcare industry."
Siemens Healthineers will continue to be managed as a separate entity within the parent company as part of the overall Vision 2020 strategy, in which the healthcare division would be managed as a "company within a company" with a new organizational setup.