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 GE Healthcare At RSNAGE Healthcare marked its participation at RSNA annual meeting in Chicago, with a feature of our latest innovations centering on our healthymagination initiative.
One healthymagination innovation displayed at RSNA is MR-Touch, a visual palpation technology that uses low frequency sound waves in combination with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to measure tissue elasticity. Based on technology invented at Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minnesota) and licensed to GE Healthcare, MR-Touch extends the principles of palpation with a precise, non-invasive, cost-effective way to evaluate tissue stiffness. Another GE first new-to-market product feature validated under the healthymagination initiative is GE's new Innova® dose-efficient X-ray technology. During a procedure, Innova automatically and continuously adapts to help keep image quality and patient dose at optimum levels. The technology can reduce patient dose by as much as 40% without compromising image quality.
GE Healthcare also advanced our line of miniaturized ultrasound with the recently launched Venue 40, one of the first new products validated under GE's healthymagination initiative, which is focused on improving quality and efficiency, increasing access and reducing costs. Its small size and streamlined cart allow for real-time imaging in the smallest of clinical spaces.
Along with Venue 40, GE Healthcare also announced new breakthrough technologies, including the LOGIQ® E9 general imaging ultrasound system that expands its capabilities with new transducers and software enhancements to provide improved image quality and productivity to pediatric, vascular and cardiac imaging.
GE Healthcare further announced the company's sponsorship of a multi-center research trial to validate the clinical efficacy of Model Based Iterative Reconstruction (MBIR) as a method to maintain or improve diagnostic information available to clinicians, while dramatically lowering radiation dose in routine CT imaging. This multi-center trial involving the our breakthrough Discovery CT750 HD system demonstrates GE's efforts to advance the standard of care with non-invasive lower dose CT imaging technology to aid in the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of diseases.
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 GE Healthcare At HIMSS10At the annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), GE Healthcare put the spotlight on healthymagination with a central theme “We Mean IT”, and key messages Innovation means value, Partnership means advocacy and Healthymagination means commitment.
As part of the showcase, GE Healthcare presented our latest innovations and achievements from each of our healthcare IT divisions, demonstrating how we can positively affect cost, quality and access in healthcare systems across the world.
Among the highlights are:
- Debut of GE’s new clinical knowledge platform that enables healthcare delivery organizations to improve performance against their quality targets.
- Launch of GE’s next-generation eHealth Solutions platform – an infrastructure offering that includes expanded services for health information exchange, a clinical portal and a patient health management system.
- Demonstration of planned enhancements to eHealth Information Exchange (HIE) which are expected to enable the HIE to view reports on healthcare quality at the provider level, state level and information exchange level based entirely on information collected from participating providers.
- Debut of GE Healthcare IT’s latest imaging solution with new technology to bring images to the EMR using a single point of access, enhancing the quality of patient care and addressing the needs of IT professionals.
- A suite of rapid implementation packages for GE’s proven electronic medical record and revenue cycle management solutions.
- The addition of thirty hospitals to the business’ latest Centricity® Enterprise EMR platform since November, fueling double-digit growth.
GE Healthcare is also heralding the continued success of our Stimulus Simplicity™ financing program, offered in conjunction with GE Capital and aimed at deferring some of the capital investment for a period of time, when incentive payments are more likely to be available. . The program offers zero percent payment terms with deferred payments until 2012 for physician practices purchasing the company’s EMR solutions and/or Centricity Business PowerStart. In addition, for its EMR solutions, GE Healthcare offers the Stimulus Simplicity Certification Warranty, demonstrating a commitment to our continued EMR development and customer collaboration.
“We aren’t here in Atlanta to talk about change—we’re here to make it happen,” said Vishal Wanchoo, president and CEO of GE Healthcare’s IT business. “We have the breadth and depth to impact healthcare systems across the world and we’re showing some of the industry’s leading solutions to prove it. We look forward to active discussions, innovative demonstrations and laying the path for the most exciting year in healthcare IT we’ve ever seen.”
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 GE Healthcare At ECR 2010Organised by the European Society of Radiology (ESR), ECR 2010 took place from March 4th to 8th 2010 at the Austria Center in Vienna, Austria and GE Healthcare took the opportunity to officially launch healthymagination at the prestigious event.
The Congress, which hosted over 10,000 medical delegates from 96 countries, also saw GE Healthcare introducing our latest innovations such as the Centricity® RIS/PACS portfolio of healthcare IT solutions that help digital hospitals and patients alike benefit from efficient and high quality medical care through significant cost reduction, optimised workflow and ultra-fast access to patient data and images.
GE Healthcare further introduced our latest innovations to tackle important issues such as women’s health as well as a host of solutions in ultrasound, magnetic resonance, computed tomography and nuclear medicine.
These included powerful new solutions including the latest LOGIQ® E9 ultrasound imaging systems, Discovery® CT 750 HD & Sensographe® Essential e, among others.
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 GE Healthcare At ITEM 2010GE Healthcare marked its participation at ITEM 2010 in Yohokoma, Japan, with a slew of healthcare IT solutions enabling widespread hospital connectivity and simplifying the critical process of healthcare information management and access.
These solutions included Centricity® PACS, Centricity® CARDDAS, Centricity® Enterprise Web, Centricity® i3 (RAD Reporting System), Centricity® CA1000, and localized solution Centricity® CDS/iDIR.
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 Showcase Of Mobile PACS Solution On iPhoneThe 25th KIMES took place from March 12th to 15th 2010 at COEX in Seoul, Korea, where GE Healthcare took our healthymagination initiative to the next level by demonstrating our commitment to quality healthcare IT solutions at low costs & higher connectivity to more than 1,200 companies from more than 40 countries.
GE Healthcare demonstrated the concept of Mobile PACS solution, where physicians can retrieve and view patient images on their iPhones interfaced with GE Centricity® PACS using Osirix™. Also on showcase were our latest LOGIQ® ultrasound imaging systems that deliver advanced image quality and innovative tools in various formats from console, mid-size console and compact laptop size systems for specific clinical needs in mid-sized hospitals increasing clinicians’ on-job performance and ultimately enhancing patient experience.
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 GE Leads With eHealth Thought Leadership At Healthcare IT Innovations SummitBlair Butterfield, Vice-President Global Market Strategy, eHealth Solutions at GE Healthcare flew in from Vermont USA to lend his thought leadership & expertise on ehealth to over 300 participants, which included CIOs, IT heads of public and private healthcare institutions as well as health ministry officials.
Blair engaged in panel discussions on hot topics such as chronic disease management on aging population in Singapore and Japan, issues and the Impact of this trend on elderly care and society and availability and adoption of new technologies to help make life better while assessing cost benefits of new technologies and best business models to for deployment.
This summit was chaired by Integrated Health Information Systems Pte Ltd (IHiS) CIO Dr Chang Yoke Sin and revolved around discussions on how a robust eHealth infrastructure is key to enabling Acute and Chronic Clinical Decision Support as well as Home-Based Health applications to monitor chronic patients and deliver a higher quality of care at lower cost.
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 GE Healthcare at Japanese Circulation Society (JCS) GE Healthcare participated in the Japanese Circulation Society (JCS) summit to great success.
The summit, which was held from 5th – 7th March 2010 at the Kyoto Conference Center, and chaired by Dr. Kita from the Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, saw GE presenting on the theme of One GE and offering the following solutions for the Japanese market, such as Centricity® iDIR/CDS, Centricity® CA1000 V2, Centricity® Cardiology Xi2 V3.5 and Centricity® WEB. In all, GE Healthcare solutions were showcased to over 17,000 summit delegates. |
 GE Healthcare Shines at Healthcare World Congress AustraliaGE Healthcare once again showcased our industry thought leadership at Healthcare World 2010, a 3-day conference in Sydney attended by health authorities, hospital operators, government, health insurers, care organisations and research institutions to discuss how structural reform, funding models and technology will impact on the cost and quality of healthcare.
At this conference, GE Healthcare profiled its next-generation eHealth Solutions platform that includes expanded services for health information exchange, a clinical portal, and a patient health management system. The new platform enables the secure exchange of electronic health information between providers, patients, payers, public health, and other key stakeholders and offers a foundation and enabler of Clinical Decision Support, Disease Management and Home Health. |
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