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GE Launches $250 Million Healthymagination Fund
GE recently announced the formation of the “GE Healthymagination Fund”, a new equity fund that will make investments in highly promising healthcare technology companies.
The fund will invest in companies globally that have innovative diagnostic, IT, and life sciences technologies aligned with the strategic objectives of GE’s Healthymagination initiative.
The fund will also support healthcare companies developing innovative and unique business models and services.
The formation of the fund is part of GE’s US$6 billion Healthymagination initiative, a global commitment to deliver better healthcare to more people at lower cost.
The fund will target three broad areas for investment: Broad-based Diagnostics, Healthcare Information Technology, Life Sciences and draw on capabilities from across GE Healthcare, GE Capital and GE Global Research, for a truly global footprint.
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#1 Again! GE Healthcare IT's Centricity® PACS-IW Is Ranked #1 Again In 2nd Year Running!
For the second year in a row1, Centricity® PACS-IW has received the prestigious Best in KLAS for PACS award, in the Accurate. Honest. Impartial. December 2009 year end Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software and Professional Services report. The results of this ranking are presented below. PACS-IW was honored with the same designation in the 2008 report by the same name. We are also humbled to learn that KLAS just reported GE Centricity® PACS-IW was ranked #1 for PACS-Acute Care, in their November 2009 PACS Market report2.
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Picture Archiving And Communication Systems Lead To Sustained Improvements In Reporting Times And Productivity: Results Of A 5-Year Audit
The results of an audit has revealed that when Centricity® PACS is coupled with a change in departmental workflow, there can be a substantial and sustained improvement in reporting times and productivity with no deterioration in the unreported film rate. With the introduction of voice recognition capabilities, further reduction in the number of steps can be anticipated.
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Radiation Exposure Of The Patients In Chest Radiography: The Survey For The Conditions And The Assessment Of Over-Exposure
In a whitepaper published at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting in Chicago, Dr Chung Myung Jin from SMC found that Digital Radiography is a promising tool to replace film-screen radiography as it has been proved to reduce patient radiation exposure better than traditional film-screen radiography. However in many healthcare institutions, the exposure conditions for digital radiographies are set too high, resulting in high patient risk of radiation overexposure. As such, radiation exposures need to be monitored more closely with robust Digital Radiology systems.
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