- Used as first point of care, GE Healthcare's leading compact ultrasound system, the LOGIQ e, will assist clinicians with an early diagnosis of athletes tendon and ligament injuries
- Portability, ease of use and high quality imaging positions compact ultrasound as a critical tool for assisting elite Spanish athletes, soon to compete at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, achieve optimum performance.
Company Honored for Excellence in Research, Development and Education for the Treatment of Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries and Diseases
WAUKESHA, WIS - JULY 30, 2008 - The International Brain Mapping and Intraoperative Surgical Planning Society (IBMISPS) has recognized GE Healthcare with the Society's "Pioneer in Technology" award, rewarding GE's leading role in the development and commercialization of image-guided technologies in healthcare.
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Study shows potential of GE-067, GE Healthcare's [18F] labeled analogue of Pittsburgh Compound B (PIB) as a novel PET imaging agent for brain amyloid accumulation related to Alzheimer's disease.
Two hour half-life of [18F] labeled ligand offers potential for greater accessibility to clinical centers.
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Advanced cooling technology enables very high performance embedded computing solutions for military/aerospace applications
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA July 29, 2008 GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, today announced that it had signed an agreement with SprayCool (formerly Isothermal Systems Research) of Liberty Lake, Washington. The agreement enables GE Fanuc to act as a supplier of fully integrated subsystems that include GE Fanuc's COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) embedded computing solutions within a SprayCool chassis.
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WAUKESHA, WI, JULY 24, 2008---GE Healthcare announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted clearance for the company's newest model of Positron Emission Tomography/ Computed Tomography (PET/CT) scanner. This new addition to GE's Discovery family of scanners continues GE's commitment to help enable the earlier detection and monitoring of disease with advanced molecular imaging technology, in both hardware and software.
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CHALFONT ST. GILES, England & TOTOWA, N.J.--24 July 2008-- GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), and Vital Signs, Inc. (NASDAQ:VITL) announced today that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement for GE to acquire Vital Signs. Under the terms of the agreement, shareholders of Vital Signs will receive $74.50 per share in cash for each Vital Signs share they own.
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WAUKESHA, WI, JULY 23, 2008 -- GE Healthcare, a leading provider of healthcare information technology solutions, announces a relationship with University of Phoenix to provide college credit for GE Healthcare Clinical Systems technical training. Forty-three of GE Healthcare's technical courses are eligible for credit with successful completion. Most of the courses are recognized as electives and can be used towards undergraduate degrees from the University of Phoenix.
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Support for multicore PowerPC, larger memory, SMP
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA July 23, 2008 GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms today announced that it has completed the porting of LynuxWorks™ LynxOS® release 5.0 to a number of the company's hardware products. This latest version of the operating system provides support for larger memory maps and symmetric multiprocessing, a key requirement for today's leading edge applications such as signal- and sensor processing.
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FAIRFIELD, Conn.--17 July 2008-- General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt announced today the appointment of John Dineen as president and CEO of GE Healthcare, a $17 billion global leader in medical diagnostic technology and biosciences. Immelt also announced that Lorenzo Simonelli will succeed Dineen as president and CEO of GE Transportation.