NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), today kicked off its participation in the 2007 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference & Exhibition in New Orleans, unveiling breakthrough efforts to seamlessly connect clinicians across the healthcare continuum---from the origination of treatment to its successful completion and from revenue cycle acceleration to clinical workflow optimization.
CHALFONT ST. GILES, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare announced today that it has completed a license agreement with Applied Biosystems, granting Applied Biosystems access to GE Healthcare patents for the biomagnetic isolation of nucleic acids. The license, which is valid for the lifetime of the patents, grants Applied Biosystems certain rights with respect to the isolation and purification of nucleic acids using GE Healthcare's proprietary magnetic separation technology.
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GE is Gold Sponsor of Middle East Imaging and Diagnostic Congress
Dubai, UAE; January 28, 2007: GE Healthcare, the US$17 billion healthcare business of General Electric Company (GE), is presenting cutting edge medical technologies focused on 'early healthcare' at Arab Health 2007, the premier health sector exhibition to be held from January 29 to February 1, 2007, at the Dubai International Exhibition Centre.
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FAIRFIELD, Conn. and ABBOTT PARK, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) and Abbott (NYSE: ABT), a global leader in medical diagnostic instruments and tests, announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement for GE to acquire Abbott's primary in vitro diagnostics businesses and Abbott Point-of-Care diagnostics business (formerly known as i-STAT) for $8.13 billion in cash. Abbott's Molecular Diagnostics and Diabetes Care businesses are not part of the transaction and will remain part of Abbott.
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As a Gold Sponsor at Arab Health, GE reaffirms commitment to help transform healthcare delivery in the Middle East
Dubai, UAE; December 26, 2006: GE Healthcare, the US$15 billion healthcare business of global technology, mediaand financial services major General Electric Company (GE), will unveil its latestrange of innovative diagnostic imaging technologies and solutions at Arab Health2007 -- the Middle East's largest healthcare exhibition being heldfrom January 29 to February 1, 2007 in Dubai.
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BARRINGTON, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) and a leading provider of information technology solutions, announced today that Community Health Network, a major health care provider in Indianapolis, has selected GE's Centricity® Enterprise (formerly IDX® Carecast™) Solution, an integrated clinical, financial and administrative solution that helps streamline workflow and improve productivity across the continuum of care.
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CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A key milestone in the imaging of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) has been reached through a close collaboration between radiochemists from the University of Pittsburgh and GE Healthcare. The University of Pittsburgh has started a study aimed at obtaining preliminary information on the performance of flourine-18 labelled Pittsburgh Compound B (F-18 PiB) to identify amyloid deposits in subjects with a diagnosis of AD.
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CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare announced today the introduction of a new member to the Definium family of X-ray digital radiographic products. The Definium 5000 is a floor-mounted, digital radiographic system providing GE state of the art image quality, image processing and user interface; making the system easy to use and reliable while providing high quality digital radiographic images.
The Definium 5000 will be on display at the 92nd annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago.
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CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric (NYSE:GE) today introduced the industry's first-ever computed tomography (CT) scanner that maintains outstanding image quality while reducing a patient's radiation exposure by up to 70 percent for diagnostic cardiac scans. This technology was launched at the 92nd annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago.
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BARRINGTON, ILL. & MONTPELIER, Vt.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announced today that it has been selected by Vermont Information Technology Leaders (VITL) to provide the health information technology infrastructure for a state-wide health information organization (RHIO).
The Vermont Health Information Exchange will focus on the following major projects: