 
GE launches 'healthymagination'
GE announced on 7th May 2009 that we will spend $3 billion over the next six years on healthcare innovation that will help deliver better care to more people at lower cost. In addition, GE will commit $2 billion of financing and $1 billion in related GE technology and content to drive healthcare information technology and health in rural and underserved areas. These investments are the foundation of GE's healthymagination initiative, which is built on the global commitments of reducing costs, improving quality and expanding access for millions of people. "Healthcare is an important industry that is challenged by rising costs, inequality of access and persistent quality issues," GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt said. "Healthcare needs new solutions. We must innovate with smarter processes and technologies that help doctors and hospitals deliver better healthcare to more people at a lower cost."
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GE Healthcare grows health information exchange services by joining global eHealth leader
GE Healthcare and global eHealth specialist InterComponentWare, Inc. (ICW), have recently inked a strategic agreement to integrate and co-develop their health information exchange (HIE) solutions. Through this relationship, GE Healthcare will leverage ICW’s expertise in eHealth and patient connectivity, to enhance Centricity® HIE service’s existing technology, patient connectivity and communications tools while further bolstering its security and interoperability capabilities for the health information exchange and global eHealth marketplace.
Next wave in Healthcare IT
"Traditionally, Healthcare IT involves automating healthcare processes such as registering, billing and recording," said Greg Saint James, GE Healthcare IT's Director of International Marketing, Enterprise Solutions Group. “We are now at a transition where healthcare IT is actually implemented to improve healthcare itself. A high amount of data is being produced and analysed to extract best practices that can deliver immediate impact to healthcare.
GE Healthcare IT and Microsoft Business Solutions partner to deliver Healthcare IT Adminstration Solutions
GE Healthcare IT and Microsoft Corp. recently announced that both companies have entered into an independent software vendor (ISV) alliance agreement to provide customers with enhanced healthcare IT administration capabilities that support GE's Centricity Enterprise healthcare IT solution, currently in use by many leading hospitals worldwide. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 will be the foundation for billing, accounting, human resources, and materials management applications that integrate with the clinical, patient administration, and financial capabilities in Centricity Enterprise. When combined, many aspects of patient care will be captured in the electronic patient record created by Centricity Enterprise and automatically passed to the Microsoft Dynamics AX solution to generate bills, update supply inventories or inform staffing plans. GE Healthcare and Microsoft bring more than 60 years of combined experience in supporting the most demanding and complex IT requirements.
Japan: 5 Centricity® Web DX Sites go live in Japan for Q2 2009
The second quarter of 2009 marks a significant milestone for GE Healthcare in Japan as Teikyo University, St Luke, Keiyu, Hokushin and Komoro hospitals have all gone live in Japan with Centricity® PACS Web Diagnostic (DX) during this period. With rich, Web-based imaging and viewing capabilities that combine workflow integration and streaming technology, these Japanese hospitals now enjoy the freedom to collaborate and view information, anywhere, anytime.
Malaysia : Centricity® PACS-IW live at USM
The Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) went live with its deployment of Centricity® PACS-IW recently, capping the first full-deployment success of Centricity® PACS-IW within the ASEAN region since its launch. With its new PACS-IW capabilities, the 731-bed HUSM, which is based in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, hopes to increase its current 70,000 diagnostic volume.
Japan : GE Healthcare marks resounding success at ITEM Show Radiology Congress 2009
The Japan Radiology Congress 2009, or ITEM 2009, one of the biggest annual radiology shows in Japan, was held from April 17th - 19th 2009 in at the Pacific Yokohama in Yokohama City. The event, which comprised more than 20,000 delegates made up of 4,000 radiologists, 4,000 technologists, 400 medical physicians & many other professionals in attendance, saw GE Healthcare showcasing Centricity® PACS (RA1000), Centricity® PACS-IW, Centricity® i3 (RAD Reporting System), and Centricity® Carddas as well as numerous other Healthcare IT solutions to more than 3,200 delegates at our booth.
GE Healthcare attains a NPS score of "9" from Busan Medical Center
GE Healthcare recently conducted a Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey and was rated a 9 by our Korean customer Busan Medical Center, a mid-segment hospital with more than 500 beds, and a full-featured Cardiology Solution facility with GE Angio, GE Echo, GE Centricity® PACS, Centricity Carddas Xi2, Centricity EA & Web with CVIT capabilities. NPS scores are powerful ways to measure customer loyalty, drive compensation, and flag troubled products. By asking customers whether they would put their own credibility on the line and recommend a company to a friend, NPS an indicator of loyalty and future behavior and potential sales growth.
"There are quite a few reasons why we chose GE for our ICU EMR. First, not only GE is a global enterprise, with its world-renowned name value and company history, but also GE has been accumulating know-hows, expertise and technologies on EMR system for more than several years. Furthermore, GE has a domestic R&D center, here in Korea, which helps them to develop customized solutions for Korean hospitals and this will be a solid foundation to export our technologies & systems that were developed by local talent pool, to overseas. All of these aspects, we figured, would help both our hospital and the company to propel further growth in the future"
Prof. Gee Young Suh M.D
Director of Intensive Care Unit
Samsung Medical Center Seoul
"The GE team (and that is, ALL of the team) were proactive in trying to resolve any issue that arose, and ALL the team performed ‘above and beyond' to make our install the success story that it has been. So from one that sat both at Project Team and Board levels, I am well placed to say that it has been a pleasure to be able to work with a dedicated group of professionals."
Roger Lysaght
Radiology Manager
Lakes District Health Board, New Zealand.
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 Vishal Wanchoo speaks on the relevance and importance of IT to Healthcare
In a recent speech, President of GE Healthcare IT Vishal Wanchoo talks about how healthcare transformation is not only critical for the individual but also the economy and outlines IT as the key driver of healthcare systems worldwide towards best practices and universal care availability at the centre of care.
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