Head of New Product Development for Medical Diagnostics Ger Brophy Gives Talk
Princeton, NJ, October 26, 2011 --Ger Brophy, PhD, Head of New Product Development, GE Healthcare, Medical Diagnostics discussed diagnostics as the future of personalized medicine at the TEDMED 2011 Conference in San Diego, CA. During his talk, Brophy noted that while new drugs and targeted treatment have advanced the personalized medicine field considerably, realizing this paradigm depends on the development of powerful diagnostics -- some of which are available today.
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Nation's Second Largest REC Will Work with GE to Increase Physician Adoption of EMR
BARRINGTON, Ill. -- Oct 17, 2011 -- Today, GE Healthcare announced it has aligned with the nation's second largest Regional Extension Center, New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), to increase physician EMR adoption and support meaningful use attainment in the state of New York.
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COPENHAGEN, DENMARK and CHALFONT St. GILES, UK -- 17 October, 2011 - Affitech A/S (NASDAQ OMX: AFFI) and GE Healthcare Life Sciences announced today that GE Healthcare Life Sciences has executed an exclusive license for the worldwide marketing and sales of products containing recombinant Protein L, granted by Affitech in a patent and know-how license agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, GE Healthcare Life Sciences agrees to pay Affitech a royalty of the net sales of all related products sold by GE Healthcare Life Sciences.
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Waukesha, WI -- October 13, 2011-- GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), announced today FDA 510(k) clearance of an innovative technology to aid the physician in breast cancer diagnosis. GE estimates that by 2020, more than 1 million women worldwide will be examined using SenoBright*, and this technology can help lead to more productive diagnosis paths for nearly 250,000 women.
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ONTARIO, CANADA -- October 12, 2011 -- GE Healthcare today announced the appointment of Kathy Winter as National Leader, GE Healthcare Performance Solutions, Canada. Together with her team, Winter will be responsible for leading the growth of GE's Performance Solutions business across the Canadian healthcare market.
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(*) Cook County Health & Hospitals System continues to increase patient safety efforts by becoming newest member of GE PSO.
(*) GE's PSO combines the capabilities of MERS, a common medical event reporting platform, SAS, a world leader in advanced analytics, and patient safety expertise from GE Healthcare Performance Solutions to address patient safety risks.