Thomas J. Miller
As a member of the Executive Management Board of the Medical Solutions Group of Siemens AG, Thomas (Tom) Miller’s vision is to turn the healthcare IT network into a powerful, patient-centric medical tool by transforming data into knowledge.
Miller holds an impressive professional track record within Siemens and other multinational corporations. During his initial 15-year tenure with Siemens, Miller headed up Med’s Health Service Corporation (HS) and Magnetic Resonance (MR) product division, and the U.S. sales and service organization. Most recently, Miller was vice president, Business Development, for Siemens Medical Solutions in Erlangen, Germany.
Whether he is racing motorcycles, bicycling, reading a classic or listening to music, the one thing that remains constant is Miller’s passion for life. This exuberance is also true in is his commitment to his work. As Miller sees it, the potential for healthcare IT is boundless and the exponentially increasing pace of technological advances offer great possibilities to those who can leverage it.
Miller will tell you that there isn’t a lack of information in the healthcare industry, but rather, it’s perfecting the management of that information that will help healthcare organizations become more efficient and positively impact patient outcomes. His mission is to achieve the goals of assuring patient safety, increasing operational efficiency and improving clinical outcomes for all of Siemens’ IT customers. Doing this means moving information through the healthcare continuum in an effective and meaningful way, analyzing and using it to continuously improve the processes involved in today’s standards of care, resulting in true workflow optimization, expanding beyond the automation of manual processes.
In addition to his leadership positions at Siemens, Miller also was president and CEO of Carl Zeiss, Inc., the American subsidiary of the multibillion-dollar optical company, and simultaneously the general manager of their worldwide medical division, responsible for surgical microscopes and ophthalmology products. Tom also served as president and CEO of Analogic Corporation, a manufacturer of components and subsystems for the healthcare and security industry. He also co-founded a company, LightLab Imaging, to commercialize a new diagnostic-imaging method called optical coherence tomography (OCT), which enables the acquisition and display of real-time ultra high-resolution, cross-sectional images with light. During the summer of 2002, following successful initial clinical trials for vulnerable plaque imaging in coronary arteries, he sold the operation to a Japanese company.
Miller holds a B.S. in nuclear engineering with a minor in English literature from the University of Massachusetts and a master’s degree from Harvard Medical School/MIT’s joint program in medical physics.
