Answers an interventional imaging challenge with simple one-button activation.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA -- September 24, 2009 -- Minimizing risk is important within all medical procedures, but is critical during the deployment of a new stent. GE Healthcare, the $17 billion division of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), will highlight ainnovative solution for assessing stent positioning and deployment during interventional procedures. The announcement was made at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2009 meeting in San Francisco, California.
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Portfolio of technology demonstrates depth of product lines.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA -- September 24, 2009 --As technology advances, medical procedures are modified and refined. New procedures based on new care protocols are developed. The result is the need to do a wide variety of procedures in the lab. As part of their display at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2009 meeting, Sept. 21-25, San Francisco, Calif., GE Healthcare will launch their Surgery Suite.
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With newly dedicated business segment, GE Healthcare announces vision for Molecular Imaging industry; highlights comprehensive solution portfolio.
WAUKESHA, Wis.--12 June 2009-- GE Healthcare will present a new vision for molecular imaging, "Understanding disease. From the beginning," reinforced by its innovative platform of imaging agents and imaging systems at the 56th annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, June 13- 17, in Toronto, Canada.
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Expanded Medicare coverage of PET scans improves access for patients to needed cancer diagnosis tool
WAUKESHA, WIS. -- APRIL 07, 2009 -- GE Healthcare, a global leader in healthcare technology, supports the recent national coverage determination (NCD) from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), expanding coverage for initial testing with positron emission tomography (PET) for Medicare beneficiaries who are diagnosed with and treated for most solid tumor cancers.
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New MAC® 800 Launched for Physicians' Office, Pharma with Innovative SMS Keypad on Board
WAUWATOSA, Wis.--13 March 2009-- Medical testing meets medical "texting" with the US Food and Drug Administration clearance of GE Healthcare's latest ECG (electrocardiogram) solution, the portable MAC 800, based on cell phone technology. Targeting physician's offices and the pharmaceutical industry, GE's entry into the portable ECG market is as practical as it is innovative.
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Puget Sound Family Physicians lends expertise to community practices; EMR implementations funded by regional medical center through Stark Relaxation Law
BARRINGTON, IL, December 10, 2008 -- GE Healthcare IT, a leading provider of healthcare information technology, today recognized Puget Sound Family Physicians for its exemplary use of GE Centricity Electronic Medical Record (EMR) to extend the benefits of "going digital" to practices and patients in the greater Seattle area.