Top HIS Vendors By 2011 Revenue: Siemens (SI)

As some of you may recall, a few months ago we took a look at Soarian’s prospects for taking some of Epic’s ever-growing EMR marketing share.  At the time, we noted that Soarian’s  customer satisfaction ratings were climbing and its list of big deals was growing.  In the wake of our story a few readers chimed in to slam Sorian, hard — one dubbed it “the most asinine and ridiculously slow system. Ever.” — but with Siemens’ $85 billion behind it, it’s not going anywhere soon.

So,  here’s some stats on Siemens’ position on the HIS market, courtesy of HealthDataManagement magazine.  As previously noted, HDM defines HIS as the complete package of hardware, software and implementation needed to manage and support a hospital.

HDM has ranked Siemens as third in volume, behind McKesson (#1) and Cerner (#2). HDM estimates that Siemens has 14 percent of the HIS market.

All that being said, bear in mind that we’re  not suggesting the order in which their revenue streams are ranked implies that, say, McKesson offers better products then Cerner. But numbers like these are interesting anyway, aren’t they?  At least in that rubbernecking-can’t-turn-away-from-that-car-crash way…

-Anne Zieger
anne@www.hospitalemrandehr.com 

 

Siemens AG (SI)
Wittelsbacherplatz 2
MUENCHEN, 80333
Germany
(Phone) +49-89-63600

CEO: Peter Loescher

CEO of Healthcare Sector: Hermann Requardt


2011 HIS Revenue:
$1.7 billion

2010 HIS Revenue: $1.6 billion

Clearly, Siemens wouldn’t go out of business any time soon if it dropped the entire HIS business into a black hole.  $1.7 billion isn’t chump change but it’s a tiny part of the 85 billion Euro company’s overall revenues.

Ah, but for readers of this publication, there’s a catch. Soarian seems to be set up for growth, if the consultants behind HDM’s research are right. According to them, Soarian continues to sell well, and what’s more, with many clients still using Siemens’ older Invision and MedSeries4 systems, Siemens has many prospects that could be sold on a Soarian upgrade.  If so, we could see some real rumbling in the power structure of the EMR business overall.

Interesting fact:  While most of its competitors are firmly rooted in the healthcare business, Siemens is as much (if not more) an electronics and electrical engineering company with very large stakes in power generation, renewable energy, oil and gas, power transmission and distribution.

About the author

Anne Zieger

Anne Zieger is a healthcare journalist who has written about the industry for 30 years. Her work has appeared in all of the leading healthcare industry publications, and she's served as editor in chief of several healthcare B2B sites.

1 Comment

  • As tempting as it would be to slam Siemens I will focus my comment on the “market share” portion of this article. Besides, I was only a Siemen’s customer for 25+ years and I’m not sure my experience is sufficient to fairly assess them as a company. Yes, I know they were not doing HCIS 25 years ago. However, the company they gobbled up did not change in any significant way years after the purchase during which we were still a customer.

    I did find the market share comment interesting, not just for Siemens but the other vendors as well. How is “market share” being defined exactly? My current vendor (Meditech) can show that they have 25% market share if you accept their definition. So, I would really like to understand the calculation being used. In the end, I think market share might be more interesting than revenue based assessments.

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