* GE Healthcare installs its new wide-bore MR system, Optima MR450w, at Hospital Laennec in Creil, France --- a first in Europe
* 115 patients have been scanned in the first three days since the installation this week.
* This system offers a 70 cm bore for enhanced patient comfort and 50 cm field of view with uncompromised image quality over large anatomies
* More than 20 units of this new system are scheduled to be installed across Europe before the end of the summer
TORONTO -- April 9, 2010 -- GE Healthcare will today present results from its multicenter phase 2 study of flutemetamol at the 4th annual Human Amyloid Imaging (HAI) Meeting in Toronto, Canada. Flutemetamol is a positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agent in development by GE Healthcare, in the field of brain imaging.
GE showcases ultrasound innovations and healthymagination at AIUM 2010 convention
SAN DIEGO, CA, MARCH 24, 2010 ― GE Healthcare (NYSE: GE) today announced that an important new feature has been added to its LOGIQ E9 platform; elastography. The enhanced device is on display at the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine's (AIUM) 2010 Annual Convention in San Diego (booth 301).
Joint development and marketing agreement to integrate GE's iMRI technology with BrainLAB BrainSUITE® systems.
WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN, March 16, 2010 -- GE Healthcare, a business unit of General Electric Corp. (NYSE:GE), announced today that it has signed a joint development and marketing agreement with BrainLAB AG, Munich, Germany. Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will formalize the integration of BrainLAB BrainSUITE® Integrated Surgical Solutions with GE's Magnetic Resonance (MR) Surgical Suite, as well as co-market the integrated solution.
Qualibria Brings Together Real-Time Patient Data and Evidence-Based Best Practices
ATLANTA, GA --- MARCH 1, 2010 - GE Healthcare today introduced Qualibria, its new clinical knowledge platform that enables healthcare delivery organizations to improve performance against their quality targets. Qualibria gives clinicians more control over patient outcomes by bringing together real-time data from existing IT systems and comparing these data against shared baselines of evidence-based best practices.
Pocket-sized, easy-to-use device enables physicians to provide more rapid diagnoses by enhancing the physical exam
VANCOUVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare announced today that the company's latest ultrasound innovation, Vscan, will be utilized at the Mobile Medical Unit, the medical emergency unit extension of the Whistler Polyclinic in support of athletes, trainers and visitors attending the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games competitions.
