Medical Equipment News

Philips Electronics North America, a division of Royal Philips Electronics, has announced that they will be relocating the company’s North American Headquarters from New York to Massachusetts. This move will make Massachusetts the location of the largest Philips presence in North America, with approximately 5,000 employees, six major work sites, and significant manufacturing facilities in the state.

In addition to its line of popular lighting solutions for both professionals and consumers, Philips is a leader in the development of medical equipment. The company's locations in Massachusetts currently manufacture cardiac defibrillators, patient monitors, and EKG / ECG machines.

Philips Electronics is a national leader in portable AED / defibrillator technology. One of the company’s most popular products in the US is the Philips HeartStart Onsite Automatic External Defibrillator, which is designed for use by the ordinary person in the extraordinary moment. Available without a prescription, the Philips OnSite Portable AED is designed to be the easiest to use and most reliable defibrillator available.

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ORSupply.com — an online division of DRE, Inc. — has redesigned its online store based on positive feedback from its customers, who can utilize the website to search and purchase medical supplies and accessories faster than ever.

“Our customers were integral to our redesign of ORSupply.com, as they provided a roadmap of the features they wanted the site to have,” says Justin Jeffries, DRE’s marketing director. “The result is a fully streamlined online store our customers can use to speedily search, find and purchase their surgical supplies and medical devices.”

To provide an optimal online shopping experience, ORSupply.com features a search tool that is fully integrated with a web 2.0 tagging interface. One of the most intelligent medical search tools on the web, it can be utilized by medical facilities to immediately pinpoint the product they’re interested in.

According to Jeffries, ORSupply.com will continually upgrade its online store to match the needs of its customers. “Customers have encouraged us to consider adding features like automatic reordering and one-click reordering. We’re in the process of readying these features, which should be active in the near future,” says Jeffries.

In addition to redesigning its online store, ORSupply.com has expanded its catalog to include more than 15,000 distinct products. Recent additions include more than 6,000 new surgical items from Sklar Instruments. ORSupply.com also plans to add more products from trusted brands such as Hudson RCI, Flexicare and Intersurgical.

About ORSupply.com ORSupply.com is a division of DRE Inc. that specializes in selling and distributing medical accessories and supplies to hospitals, surgical centers, clinics, research labs, and medical facilities across the United States. ORSupply.com’s goal is to provide medical professionals with a one-stop destination for researching and purchasing medical accessories and supplies.

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Siemens has confirmed reports that a large reduction in its workforce will be implemented at the company to boost competitiveness and respond to global economic pressures.

As reported in DOTmed Online News last week, Siemens will be reducing its global workforce by approximately 16,750 jobs. The majority of the cuts will be in administrative positions, and will include approximately 2,800 jobs in the healthcare division worldwide. Of that figure, 1200 of the jobs will be reduced in Europe, with the remainder coming from other parts of the world.

As part of the company’s efforts to reduce operating costs by $1.9 billion by 2010, Siemens has reorganized management and consolidated operations into thress main units – healthcare, energy, and industrial. Siemens Healthcare is the well-known manufacturer of a wide range of hospital medical equipment, including the Siemens 300a Servo Ventilator, the Siemens 900C Respiratory Ventilator, The Siemens SC 9000XL Monitor, and the Siemens Hanaulux Oslo Operating Room Surgical Light.

Siemens, which is based in Munich, Germany, currently employs more than 400,000 workers in 190 countries. This job reduction represents about 4% of the company’s workforce.

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