{"id":3382,"date":"2022-12-17T12:35:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T12:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/?p=3382"},"modified":"2022-12-17T12:35:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T12:35:31","slug":"global-siemens-healthineers-ge-healthcare-eye-medtronic-units-bloomberg-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/global-siemens-healthineers-ge-healthcare-eye-medtronic-units-bloomberg-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Global: Siemens Healthineers, GE Healthcare eye Medtronic units &#8211; Bloomberg News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__full_width__ekUdw body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">Siemens Healthineers AG and General Electric Co&#8217;s\u00a0healthcare business are weighing a potential acquisition of two units being spun off by Medtronic Plc, Bloomberg\u00a0<a class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__medium__1kbOh text__large__nEccO link__underline_default__2prE_\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-12-15\/siemens-healthineers-ge-healthcare-said-to-eye-medtronic-units?srnd=markets-vp&amp;sref=y3YMCJ4e#xj4y7vzkg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"Link\">reported<\/a> on Thursday (December 15, 2022), citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__full_width__ekUdw body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">Medtronic, the world&#8217;s largest standalone medical device maker, had announced plans in October to spin off the two units &#8211; patient monitoring and respiratory interventions &#8211; as it seeks to streamline its portfolio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__full_width__ekUdw body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">Bloomberg reported on Thursday that Medtronic was also open to a sale at the right price and the businesses could be valued at more than $7 billion. The two businesses were also drawing interest from private-equity firms, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__full_width__ekUdw body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">Medtronic and GE Healthcare did not immediately respond to Reuters request for comment, while Siemens Healthineers declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__full_width__ekUdw body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-4\">Medtronic\u00a0has been\u00a0restructuring its business over the last few years in a bid to increase the pace of its revenue growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siemens Healthineers AG and General Electric Co&#8217;s\u00a0healthcare business are weighing a potential acquisition of two units being spun off by Medtronic Plc, Bloomberg\u00a0reported on Thursday (December 15, 2022), citing people&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[76,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Siemens-Healthineers-GE-Healthcare-eye-Medtronic-units-Bloomberg-News.jpg?fit=600%2C337&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3388,"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions\/3388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regtechafrica.com\/healthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}