Search Tag: GE Healthcare
State Street Corporation Acquire GE Asset Management for up to $485 Million
2016 31 Mar
Brings GE Asset Management (GEAM) active management, alternatives and OCIO (Outsourced Chief Investment Officer) capabilities to State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), a premier industry firm with scale and $2.3 trillion in assets under management globally SSGA to manage assets of the GE pension plan currently managed by GEAM and assume responsibility... Read more
Enterprise Imaging
2016 27 Feb
Enterprise imaging — the ability to store, view and exchange images from multiple service lines — promises to revolutionise the imaging landscape as growing demand for improvements in diagnosis and treatment is adding pressure to enable and simplify image exchange across the board. Yet many providers, especially large hospitals and integrated delivery... Read more
The Affidea Effect: A Global Dose Data Management System
2016 27 Feb
As the biggest independent provider of advanced diagnostic imaging services in Europe, Affidea owns and operates 170 medical centres and grows at a rate of (on average) one new centre every fortnight. As the company evolves, our owners Waypoint Capital want to turn it into the biggest global brand for diagnostic imaging and cancer care. The cornerstone... Read more
Nestlé Health Science and GE Healthcare announce collaboration to help critically-ill patients
2015 15 Oct
Nestlé Health Science and GE Healthcare are announcing a collaboration to improve nutrition monitoring for patients in intensive care units (ICU). The collaboration aims to connect the technology that delivers nutrients to the patient with the advanced analytic technology that measures the specific nutrition a patient needs. This will enable an integrated... Read more
GE Healthcare Launches New Chapter in PET/MR
2014 05 Aug
World’s first time-of-flight capable, integrated, simultaneous PET/MR offers improved image quality Next-generation PET/MR enables oncology, neurology, and cardiology imaging as never before GE Healthcare has announced that the first integrated, simultaneous, time-of-flight (TOF) capable, whole body SIGNA PET/MR* is 510(k) pending at the FDA. Powered... Read more
US FDA Clears GE’s New Mobile Angiography System
2014 06 May
Putting interventional radiologists in the center of their procedures GE Healthcare announced it has received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its Discovery IGS 740, a new rail-free mobile angiography system with a 41x41-cm detector. The Discovery IGS 740 is the first of this kind of mobile angiography system in the industry... Read more
New App Provides Brain Stimulation to Neurological Disorders Sufferers
2014 11 Mar
To provide mobile support to those affected by neurological disorders, GE Healthcare has designed a free iPad app that provides brain stimulation for people with neurological conditions. It also provides helpful advice for caregivers. Created and endorsed by neurologists, the GE Healthcare MIND (Make an Impact on Neurological Disorders) App’s... Read more
World Cancer Day: Why it’s Crucial to Debunk Cancer Myths
2014 04 Feb
Cancer Myths: Why it’s Crucial to Debunk Them With one third of all cancer cases being potentially preventable, it’s very important to know the signs and symptoms of cancer 4th February 2014 is World Cancer Day, an opportunity for the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to raise one voice in improving general knowledge surrounding... Read more
Arab Health 2014: Record Number of Product and Solution Launches
2014 29 Jan
Healthcare companies present latest products portfolios and solutions adopting e-health and automated processes, geared towards improving efficiency and quality in the industry. With more than 3900 exhibiting companies from 63 countries, the Arab Health Exhibition and Congress is the Middle East’s largest healthcare expo. This year, it is... Read more
Nobel Prize Winner’s Work Could Aid Precision Medicine
2013 19 Dec
James E. Rothman, Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine 2013, spent the most extraordinary week of his life in Sweden when accepting ‘the once in a lifetime recognition’ with his colleagues Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof at the Nobel Awards ceremony in Stockholm. During his trip Rothman, also senior advisor to GE Global Research... Read more