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GE Healthcare Acquires Dynamic Imaging, LLC GE Healthcare recently announced that it has completed the acquisition of Dynamic Imaging, LLC (“Dynamic Imaging”), a leader in Web-based image and information management. This key acquisition will allow GE Healthcare to expand its IT offerings across all segments of healthcare throughout hospital integrated delivery networks, community hospitals, outpatient imaging centers, radiology group practices, and physician offices.
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GE Healthcare Unveils New Web-Based Imaging Solutions For Hospitals and Outpatient Imaging Centers At RSNA 2007, GE Healthcare unveiled a suite of Centricity solutions that build on Centricity’s business process and advanced clinical capabilities to provide web-based accessibility of IntegradWeb® solutions.read more >
GE Healthcare & Shanghai Kingstar Announces Winning Partnership GE Healthcare recently announced a strategic partnership agreement with Shanghai Kingstar Winning Technology Co. to offer a comprehensive healthcare IT solution that covers all aspects of clinical, administrative, community and public health management regional and enterprise healthcare IT solutions to a growing China market.read more >
GE Unveils "Go Big" Vision for India GE revealed its ‘go big’ vision for India
at the 61st GE Day and the first ever GE Day to be hosted in India recently, saying that technology and innovation can help serve as GDP multipliers for the country.read more >
Sixteen Of Eighteen Top-Ranked Hospitals By U.S. News & World Report
Are Customers Of GE Healthcare Centricity Solutions GE Healthcare announced today that 16 of the 18 top Honor Roll hospitals listed by U.S. News & World Report in its 18th annual edition of America’s Best Hospitals currently use one or more GE Centricity® solutions. read more >
University of Colorado Hospital Goes Live with
Centricity Perioperative System to Coordinate Surgical
Services And Provide a Seamless Patient Record The GE solution streamlines surgical services such as anesthesia, nursing, scheduling, surgery management and pre-procedures services into one complete patient record that helps caregivers provide efficient and safe patient care.read more >
Boston Scientific and GE Healthcare Announce Its First Patient Data Link
To Electronic Medical Record Boston Scientific Corporation and GE Healthcare recently announced the industry’s first patient data integration between a cardiac rhythm management remote monitoring system and a physician’s electronic medical record. read more >
GE Healthcare Launches, Installs New Perinatal Software GE Healthcare announced the release of Centricity Perinatal 6.80, a clinician software package that combines the company’s long-time expertise in Labour & Delivery with enhancements to its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) capability. read more >
HIMSS AsiaPac07 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the most internationally respected HIT organisation, recently broke new ground with the most innovative and comprehensive healthcare IT event the Asia Pacific region had ever witnessed – The HIMSS AsiaPac07 Conference & Exhibition. read more >
Medinfo 2007 Held over 5 days from August 20th to the 24th, 2007 in Brisbane Australia, the Medinfo 2007 Congress featured an unparalleled series of workshops, keynote presentations and scientific papers by international thought leaders on defining the role of information systems, technologies and management in health informatics where GE is a key sponsor in the event.
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GE Healthcare IITS Exclusive Annual Customer Event: Medical Advisory Board 2007 GE Healthcare Integrated IT Solutions Asia together with key sponsor EMC and partners BARCO and Intel, recently presented the exclusive "By Invitation Only" Medical Advisory Board (MAB) 2007 Conference from the 16th to the 19th of October 2007 in scenic Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Malaysia.
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China Hospital Presidents' Conference Organized by the Dorenfest China Healthcare Group and supported by the Chinese Ministry of Health, the China Hospital Presidents’ Conference ran across three major Chinese cities from 25th August 2007 to 1st September 2007 and was jointly sponsored by GE and EMC. More than 2000 delegates attending this tri-city executive sharing titled “Using Information Technology to Improve Hospital Work Processes and Management System“ by world-class keynote speakers from the U.S, U.K., and Hong Kong, which was aimed at helping Chinese hospitals develop a better approach to using IT to strengthen hospital management, improve quality, improve work processes and patient services.
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Korea NHII EHR Seminar Over 100 healthcare IT experts and Korea Ministry of Health officials attended the “Next Generation Electronic Healthcare Record and ROI for Healthcare Information Technology” seminar in Seoul, Korea on 31st Oct 2007. Organized by the Korea Society of Medical Informatics (KOSMI) and the Centre for Interoperable Electronic Health Record (CiEHR), and sponsored by GE Healthcare, EMC and Intel, the seminar focussed on the development of next generation EHR that promises to deliver higher quality patient care with lower healthcare cost.
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14th China Radiology Congress Organized by the China Congress of Radiology, the 14th China Radiology Congress was held from 18th-20th October 2007 in Nanjing and featured top radiologists who came together to share PACS best practices, including workflow, clinical functionalities, project implementation, customization needs, service support related issues and cross-sharing of information between departments.
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Beijing 2007 CMEF Exhibition GE’s participation in the Beijing 2007 MEF Exhibition which ended on 27th October 2007, was a resounding success, as the company showed off the latest Centricity Diagnostic Workstation to an appreciative audience. read more >
Centricity™ RIS/PACS Revolutionize radiology workflow with the next-generation Centricity™ RIS/PACS! Integrating RIS and PACS data seamlessly into a User Based Solution for the Radiologist and Technologist, Centricity™ RIS/PACS eliminates barriers to efficiency with tools that improve productivity and play a significant role in patient care.
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Centricity CARDDAS Xi2 Optimize workflow in the standalone cardiology department or throughout the entire healthcare enterprise with fully scalable cardiovascular IT solutions – GE's Centricity® IT solutions help deliver higher-quality, lower cost healthcare at every stage of the patient care process.
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U.S. FDA Approves GE Healthcare’s Newest Mobile Mammography System For Improved Access To Breast Care GE Healthcare recently received a Bronze IDEA award for the Signa HDe MR system in the Medical & Scientific Products category at the 2007 International Design Excellence Awards. The Signa HDe was the only diagnostic imaging product to win an IDEA 07 award from the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA).
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GE Healthcare Receives Prestigious International Design Excellence Award (IDEA) For Signa HDe MR System GE Healthcare recently announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its Senographe® Essential, a new mobile mammography platform that will improve access to breast cancer screening for millions of women around the world.
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Improving Quality of Care and Nursing Workflow: A Clinician Usability Pilot of the MotionTM C5 Mobile Clinical Assistant
As healthcare organizations today deploy electronic medical records (EMRs) and related technology solutions, it becomes increasingly critical to provide clinicians with convenient, mobile access to those technologies at the point of care. read more (pdf) >
Integrated Approach to Today’s Overlapping Backup
and Recovery Challenges
EMC continues to address today’s data challenges with new solutions that focus on improvements to backup solutions and recovery and enhanced integration. read more (pdf) >
Medical Group Eases The Pain of Health Records Management Using EMC Technology and Services
and Recovery Challenges
EMC® Documentum® ApplicationXtender® platform helps University of Miami Medical Group transition toward electronic health record system. read more >
Medical image details: a
matter of life or death?
Shengjing Hospital, the largest healthcare institute in northeast China, tuned to Barco when its CRT displays failed to meet radiologists’ high specifications for faultless accuracy and reliability. read more (pdf) >
Barco receives Frost and Sullivan Market Leadership Award in the North American medical display Market
Barco’s marketing strategies and development efforts are key factors that help Barco net the prestigious award. read more >
Mobile Clinical Assistant Platform Prototype: Mobile Point-of-Care Technology in Emergency Care
Mobile point-of-care (MPOC) technologies can significantly improve the quality of patient care and enhance clinician productivity in fast-paced trauma care settings, as Singapore's Changi General Hospital found out. read more (pdf) >
China: Huashan Hospital, The Third Hospital of Peking University & Hainan Provincial People’s Hospital
Integrating hospital processes through GE RIS/PACS for better healthcare outcomes
Singapore: Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Benefiting from Filmless Radiology view video (.wmv)>
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Hospital Authority
Implementing Central Medical Data Repository with GE Centricity Solution view video (.wmv)>
Japan: Tesseikai Neurosurgical Hospital
Running a Centralised, Multimodal Heart Center Network with GE Centricity CARDDAS Xi2 view case studies (.pdf)>
Japan: Kanoya Heart Center
Maximizing Medical Service Levels in Rural Japan with GE Centricity CARDDAS Xi2 view case studies (.pdf)>
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Alt – Any Tool
Changes the tool’s function temporarily to Window/Level
Ctrl – Shift- Any Tool
Tool function propagates to all images in all displayed exams for the current patient.
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GE Healthcare Acquires Dynamic Imaging, LLC
HIMSS AsiaPac07
Medinfo 2007
GE Healthcare IITS Exclusive Annual Customer Event: Medical Advisory Board 2007
China Hospital Presidents' Conference
Korea NHII EHR Seminar
14th China Radiology Congress 
Beijing 2007 CMEF Exhibition 
Centricity™ RIS/PACS
Centricity CARDDAS Xi2
U.S. FDA Approves GE Healthcare’s Newest Mobile Mammography System For Improved Access To Breast Care
GE Healthcare Receives Prestigious International Design Excellence Award (IDEA) For Signa HDe MR System
