* 50/50 JV combines Microsoft's deep platform expertise with GE Healthcare's experience in clinical and administrative workflow solutions
* Solutions will provide healthcare professionals access to real-time intelligence and innovative technologies to improve patient care, increase efficiency, address evolving healthcare landscape
* Launch expected in first half of 2012
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Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales, Professor John Harries, joins celebration
Cardiff, UK -- 6 December 2011 - Year six pupils at Radyr Primary School together with Professor John Harries, Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales, last week helped GE Healthcare to celebrate the fifth anniversary of its Education Zone at the Maynard Centre in Whitchurch, Cardiff.
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San Francisco, CA - UCSF and the Cell Technologies business of GE Healthcare Life Sciences have begun a unique collaboration aimed at overcoming the lack of blood-forming stem cells available to patients suffering from life-threatening diseases such as lymphoma, myeloma, leukemia or sickle cell anemia. The goal of the $840,000, three-year project is to make better use of a rich source of routinely discarded stem cells: umbilical cord blood from the birth of a baby.
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Supported by GE and Science
WASHINGTON, DC -- For his novel approach to creating maps that enable researchers to zoom in on the human genome and reveal features of DNA structure inside the nucleus, Erez Lieberman Aiden has been named the 2011 Grand Prize winner for the GE & Science Prize for Young Life Scientists. The annual competition includes a grand-prize award of $25,000 and is supported by GE Healthcare and the journal Science, which is published by AAAS, the nonprofit science society.
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Joining from Siemens, Richard Hausmann is a recognized leader in global healthcare with deep and extensive knowledge of MR
Waukesha, Wi, December 2, 2011 -- GE Healthcare announced today global industry leader Richard Hausmann will join GE Healthcare as General Manager of the company's Magnetic Resonance (MR) business effective January 1, 2012.
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Latest innovations bring exceptional realism to ultrasound imaging; helping to meet the growing demands of today's ultrasound department
CHICAGO --- December 1, 2011 --- GE Healthcare (NYSE: GE) is showcasing its latest advances in ultrasound today at RSNA 2011. As healthcare providers increasingly incorporate ultrasound into their practice, GE Healthcare is accelerating its development of solutions and tools that help advance the capabilities of ultrasound in a wide range of clinical areas.
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Centricity Radiology Mobile Access Receives FDA Clearance for Advanced, Diagnostic CT and MR Image Review
CHICAGO --- November 30, 2011 --- GE Healthcare (NYSE: GE) demonstrated new capabilities for its Centricity* Radiology Mobile Access platform today at RSNA 2011, enabling radiologists to use their iPad® and iPhone® devices to remotely diagnose select patient images from Centricity PACS.