北京,2013年4月22日------通用电气(GE)公司今天宣布向雅安地震的灾区提供价值700万元的医疗设备,支持抗震救灾。目前已有一半设备第一时间抵达灾区和成都,更多的医疗设备将于今明两天运往成都统一调配,帮助救治更多受灾民众。同时GE医疗中国的首批前线救援分队已随设备抵达灾区,帮助现场医护人员学会使用。
GE医疗中国此次提供的医疗设备有:心电监护仪、心电图机、麻醉机、除颤仪、掌上彩超仪Vscan和便携式超声仪、骨科移动式C形臂等。GE医疗陆续运送的医疗设备将运达需求最大的医疗救援机构。
"GE医疗中国及全体员工全力支持四川雅安地区抗震救灾工作。我们将尽最大努力,通过我们的医疗设备提供及时、有效的服务,协助医护人员救治更多的生命。"GE医疗集团大中华区总裁兼首席执行官段小缨表示。
GE医疗中国一直在积极密切地配合灾区物资调配及医疗救助相关机构、政府及医疗机构,确保所有医疗设备尽快到位、运转正常,并提供及时服务。
l GE医疗在第一时间从GE中国(成都)创新中心、北京、广州、上海等地,紧急调运设备经统一调配后送往灾区。其中,在地震灾情发生后的当天下午2点,GE医疗中国的部分医疗设备已随国家医疗救援队第一时间先期运抵雅安灾区。
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Three-year program provides expertise, resources and growth opportunities
to accelerate consumer health innovation
NEW YORK, April 4, 2013 -- GE healthymagination and StartUp Health, a long-term academy and network for digital health entrepreneurs, today announced the first thirteen companies selected to join a three-year Entrepreneurship Program to accelerate growth for consumer health companies.
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Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth further strengthens imaging capabilities with high-precision, low radiation dose SPECT/CT technology
FORT WORTH, TEXAS -- FEBRUARY 19, 2013 -- GE Healthcare today announced the first global commercial installation of its Optima* NM/CT 640 technology, a new performance SPECT/CT system that helps physicians balance high image quality with low patient radiation dose and efficiency, at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth in Fort Worth, Texas.
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- GE advanced cancer mapping technology to provide unprecedented studies of cancer cells
- Could yield new insights into how colon cancer develops, progresses and can be suppressed
NISKAYUNA, NY, February 12, 2013 -- Vanderbilt University has partnered with GE Global Research, the technology development arm for the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), to better define -- at the cellular level -- how colon tumors form and develop.