GE Healthcare To Lead U.S. Ultrasound Market In The Next Years

Millennium Research Group (MRG) predicts a robust growth for GE Healthcare during 2014. GE Healthcare was a major leader of the U.S. ultrasound system market in 2009 as well as its strength in the fast-growing emerging ultrasound system, therefore MRG expects further success and progress for the company. The continued growth of GE Healthcare enables it to increase its lead over Philips and Siemens in a market that is projected to be at $1.2 billion in the United States.

GE Healthcare And MTL Produce First Russia's Domestically Assembled CT Scanner

GE Healthcare and its Russian manufacturing partner Meditsinskie technologii Ltd (MTL) have announced the first Russia's domestically assembled CT scanner. This accomplishment represents an important forward step in the business future for both GE Healthcare and MTL because it is expected that the annual domestic Russian CT market could exceed 1.5 billion rubles (US$49 million).

GE’s Centricity EMR Donated To The University of Texas

GE Healthcare, A global leading company providing medical imaging systems and healthcare IT solutions, announced that it has recently donated its Electronic Medical Record (EMR) solution, Centricity, to the University of Texas at Austin (UTA). By providing the solution, GE aims to help the UTA in training its students through the University’s health information technology program. GE’s Centricity is used by UTA in its Health Information Technology Learning Laboratory, and the attending students are awarded certificates following the end of the UTA’s health information technology program. GE aims, by donating Centricity, to increase the knowledge of primary care physicians about healthcare IT applications. Jim Corrigan, vice president and general manager of GE Healthcare IT, said “We never flinch before agreeing to an investment like this. It’s an investment in the future of our industry and in the young minds that will shape it.” GE provided UTA with Centricity Advance, which is an online EMR solution developed for offering practice to primary care physicians. The solution is delivered as a web-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application.

University Of Texas Receives Web-Based EMR From GE

University of Texas at Austin will be given the latest platform from Barrington, Ill.,  GE Healthcare, to be used for educational purposes, as announced by GE. The Health Information Technology Summer Certificate Program at the University has just graduated its first class, which included 54 students, at the end of July. These students used GE Centricity Advance software in the University’s recently established Health Information Technology Learning Laboratory in the Clinical Education Center University Medical Center Brackenridge.

GE to Develop Pediatric MRI Systems

GE Healthcare, a leading company providing medical imaging systems and healthcare IT solutions, along with Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center and the Davis Heart and Lung Institute of The Ohio State University, was awarded a fund of $1 million for developing magnetic resonance imaging MRI and other imaging devices for the “Pediatrics Population” project. By participating in this project, GE confirms its commitment to healthymagination, which is deployed to deliver new technologies and solutions to more people.

GE Healthcare Opens Its First Factory In Brazil

GE Healthcare, a global leading company providing diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solution, announced that it has opened its first factory in Brazil, also the first in South America, in order to provide the Brazilian population with more affordable healthcare technologies, in addition to establishing a exportation center in South America. The factory is located in the Brazilian city of Contagem. It involved planned investments of $50 million during a ten-year period.


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GE’s Vscan Wins An Award From TechAmerica

GE Healthcare, a global leading company in healthcare market, announced that its pocket-size ultrasound system, Vscan, was named the winner in the Breakthrough Technology Award category of the American Technolo ....Read More

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A New Hand-carried Ultrasound Imaging Technology Is Commercially Available

GE Healthcare and SonoSite Company have made the hand-carried or pocket ultrasound device commercially available this month. The portable imaging technology, is easy to use, and will allow every urologist in th ....Read More

GE Healthcare Sponsored The Third Arab Radiology Conference in The Dead Sea

GE Healthcare was among the principal sponsors for the Third Arab Radiology Conference, which took place in the Dead Sea area, Jordan, at the King Hussein Bin Abdullah Convention Centre. Radiologists from the A ....Read More

GE Healthcare Holds A Summit Highlighting Healthcare Issues In The Middle East

During the third annual Middle East Media Summit, GE Healthcare is bringing together all industry experts and the media, aiming to focus on the significance of strong and strategic partnerships in addressing the challenges faced by the healthcare sector in the region. The event will be featuring the healthcare state in the region in a detailed overview, in addition to a comprehensive review of new technologies that can help address pressing healt .... Read More

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GE Healthcare Installs 3.0 Tesla MRI Scanners In Romania

Recently GE Healthcare and Signa+ Medical Imaging Center made an announcement of the installed 3.0 Tesla Magnetic Resonance (MR) Scanner for the first time in Romania. This Hi-Tech 3.0 Tesla MRI Scanner is a breakthrough for Romanian medical services, they are now available to patients in Bucharest at Signa+’s new center for research and diagnostics in medical imaging. This installation is in line with GE’s healthymagination strategy aimed at ....Read More

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GE Healthcare Names Neil Boyce Country Manager In South Africa Operations

Recently GE Healthcare has announced the appointment of Neil Boyce as Country Manager of its GE Healthcare South Africa operations. Neil Boyce will play a leading role in driving organic growth in South Africa, based in Johannesburg. He will be responsible for developing and expanding customer relationships, in addition to the execution on a strategy around long-term public and private sector partnerships to help transform healthcare delivery in ....Read More

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Molecular Imaging Technologies By GE Healthcare For Improved Patient Experience

GE Healthcare is focusing improving patients’ experiences. GE helps clinicians by highlighting an innovative portfolio of molecular imaging technologies and agents at the 57th annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM), June 5-9, in Salt Lake City. “Our vision for the Molecular Imaging business is to apply innovation to improve the patient experience,” said Terri Bresenham, vice president of the GE Healthcare Molecular Imaging ....Read More

GE Healthcare Collaborates In A Trial For Investigational Molecular Breast Imaging System

GE Healthcare announced that it has collaborated in two clinical trials assessing the use of a novel technology, investigational Molecular Breast Imaging (MBI) system, that may assist in early detection of breast cancer in women who are at high risk for the disease. The Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Israel and Hamilton Health Sciences Hospital in Ontario, Canada, were the two centers selected by GE as they have showed great intere ....Read More

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PACS To Be Delivered To Eastern Europe

GE Healthcare and Euromedic Diagnostics have partnered to implement GEs’ web-based PACS to Euromedic’s facilities in Poland and Hungary. The system is designed to be implemented in 17 Polish and 11 Hungarian sites as well as a central data centre established in each country. Implementing the web-based Centricity PACS is going to provide more effective cooperation between healthcare professionals, since the system will facilitate image transf ....Read More

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