As the healthcare industry feels the pressure of burgeoning costs and staff shortages, rapid advances in technology are playing a vital role in delivering efficient clinical care, from discovery and diagnosis to targeted treatment planning.
While the pandemic has left many hospitals struggling to meet backlogged demand, the benefits of the acceleration it prompted in digital healthcare and cutting-edge medical imaging technology are here to stay.
Chicago and New York – October 19, 2022 – GE Healthcare and AMC Health today announced a collaboration that allows clinicians to offer Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) as a virtual care solution that extends patient care outside the hospital to the home environment.
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Mark Frontera always felt that his work mattered. As a mechanical engineer and then a lab manager at GE Research in Niskayuna, New York, he studied how to improve X-ray technology that could one day help doctors diagnose patients sooner and treat them more effectively.
Between three to five percent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians living in remote and regional areas suffer from rheumatic heart disease (RHD). Poverty and lack of primary healthcare is behind the persistence of a deadly disease that has been virtually absent in the rest of Australia for more than 50 years.
Dr. Rodney F. Hochman serves as the CEO of a not-for-profit health system. Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Phoebe L. Yang is an executive at Amazon Web Services.
When Tom Langer woke up in the middle of the night with a racing heart, he knew something was wrong. He headed to the emergency room near his home in southeastern Wisconsin, where he was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat that increases the risk of stroke and might lead to blood clots.
When an ambulance rushed a runner suffering from severe heatstroke and dehydration to a field hospital set up on the Brighton Marathon course in England, Professor Rob Galloway had all of the equipment he needed to start resuscitation.
Reporting GE’s second-quarter results, Chairman and CEO of GE and CEO of GE Aerospace Larry Culp said, “The GE team delivered a strong quarter, with growth in orders, revenue, and profit, as well as positive free cash flow. Aerospace was a key driver, and services remained a bright spot of performance. While this remains the toughest operating environment I’ve seen, I am proud of how the GE team is taking action to manage continued pressures.”
Culp noted that orders grew 4% organically year over year, driven by the 26% orders growth in GE’s Aerospace business.
Today is an exciting day for GE as we announced the new brand names for our three planned future companies: GE HealthCare, GE Vernova, and GE Aerospace.
