Australia, 21 October 2011: Almost 1,000 GE staff across Australia and New Zealand will hit the streets today for a sponsored 'pink walk' to raise money and awareness for breast cancer research on Pink Ribbon Day.
GE employees will walk en-masse sporting pink T-shirts in seven locations, including Melbourne's Yarra River, Sydney's Opera House, Auckland's harbour as well as sites in Brisbane, Adelaide, Parramatta and Rydalmere.
2011 Data Visualization Marathon winning entry highlights our changing healthcare needs
Sydney -- Australia, 20 October 2011: GE has teamed up with the 2011 Data Visualization Marathon in Sydney to take a closer look at Australia's changing healthcare landscape. The winning entry, 'Guess What Australia', draws on data about the nation's aging population, changing demographics and skills shortage to visually represent the challenges faced by our healthcare system today.
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.
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.
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.
DENVER, CO, Oct. 13, 2011 -- Expanding their Rocky Mountain oil and gas reserves footprint, PRE Resources, Inc. is teaming up with GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE (NYSE: GE), to buy more than 100 producing wells and undeveloped acreage across 29 fields in Wyoming and Colorado.
2011年10月10日，北京------GE（通用电气公司）近日宣布将启动开放式创新竞赛----GE"健康创想挑战赛"，面向全球广大企业、企业家、创新人士和在校学生征集具有突破性的创意和解决方案，以加快乳腺癌的早期检测，并找到更具个性化的治疗方法。GE及其风险投资伙伴将斥资1亿美元为获选的突破性创意提供资助。
GE"健康创想"计划致力于为更多人提供更好的医疗服务。作为该计划的重要部分，GE正利用协同合作、集思广益的力量将创新方法推向市场，帮助医生和患者找到加快检测及诊断乳腺癌的方法，从而更好地了解病情并进行有效的治疗。
