Signify Premium Insight: Pursuing Partners – GE’s Handshake with Elekta

Bridging the gap between diagnostic imaging and therapeutics has the potential to be hugely beneficial to a vendor such as GE Healthcare. Just ask Siemens Healthineers CEO Bernd Montag, who in his company’s Q421 results highlighted that Siemens’ 2020 acquisition of Elekta rival Varian was already opening new sites, giving both the imaging and oncology teams “opportunities they wouldn’t have had before.” Siemens Healthineers’ partnership and later acquisition of Varian also shows such synergising is nothing new. Even for Elekta the partnership isn’t revolutionary, with the vendor already having an arguably closer relationship