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From FOBO to Go, Go!

February 29, 2016
Being disruptive is the gold standard for executives and citizens of the digital-industrial era, but it seems FOBO—the fear of becoming obsolete in the face of technological disruption—has Australians thinking that “digital Darwinism” may do them in. GE’s Global Innovation Barometer 2016 shows 89% of Australian business leaders fear that many businesses will not adapt to the fast pace of digital evolution.
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Why we all need to own the Innovation Nation

February 29, 2016
GE’s Innovation Barometer 2016 survey was in the field shortly before the release of the government’s Innovation Statement, and it’s clear from the findings that the National Innovation and Science Agenda has come at the right time.
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Concussion is based on a true story. What’s happening to protect footballers?

February 26, 2016
Concussion billed itself to US audiences as “the movie the NFL doesn’t want you to see”. That’s heavy on the Hollywood hype considering that the National Football League has partnered with GE in the five-year $60 million Head Health Initiative to accelerate concussion research, diagnosis and treatment. Nevertheless, the film makes for uncomfortable viewing for anyone who’s ever watched, played or loved someone who’s been involved in any head-jarring sport.
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The rise and rise of the sensor

February 01, 2016
You’ll find the Ngaanyatjarra Lands nestled up by Western Australia’s border, where travelling a few more kilometres east will carry you into the Northern Territory or South Australia. About a dozen remote Aboriginal communities are scattered here, across the Great Victoria and Gibson deserts. There are only a few sealed roads, plenty of deadly snakes, alcohol is prohibited and English is not the first language for most of the 2,300 people living here. This is beyond the Outback and then some.
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Cloud

Financial Times: GE Healthcare To Improve Organic Growth With Digital Technology

Timothy Cheng
December 22, 2015

John Flannery, GE Healthcare’s chief executive officer, told the Financial Times that when he started his job last year, he “didn’t come with a mandate to do big M&A.” Instead, Flannery, who held many different GE jobs during his 27 years with the company, said he would be focusing on organic growth.

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Big Data

Meet Your Digital Twin: Internet For The Body Is Coming And These Engineers Are Building It

Tomas Kellner
December 18, 2015
Let’s be honest: November isn’t the best time to visit Helsinki. But the gloom that envelops the Finnish capital every autumn didn’t stop some 15,000 visitors from descending on Slush, one of the world’s largest tech gatherings, which drew 1,700 startups this year as well as Google, Nokia and GE.
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Breakthrough

Heady Times: This Scientist Took the First Brain Selfie and Helped Revolutionize Medical Imaging

November 18, 2015
Early one October morning 30 years ago, GE scientist John Schenck was lying on a makeshift platform inside a GE lab in upstate New York. The itself lab was put together with special non-magnetic nails because surrounding his body was a large magnet, 30,000 times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field. Standing at his side were a handful of colleagues and a nurse. They were there to peer inside Schenck’s head and take the first magnetic resonance scan (MRI) of the brain.
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Science, get ready for your close-up

November 17, 2015
Hollywood producer Brian Grazer says that a curious mind is the secret to a bigger life. It’s also the secret to a thriving business, as GE can attest.
Grazer and Oscar-winning director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) recently teamed up with GE and National Geographic Channel to make Breakthrough, a six-part documentary series exploring scientific innovation.
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Breakthrough

Dr. Tom Frieden: Protecting the World from the Next Pandemic

Dr Tom Frieden Centers For Disease Control And Prevention
October 29, 2015

It wasn’t just luck that the Ebola epidemic didn’t spread once it reached Lagos. Here’s what other countries can learn from Nigeria’s effective response.

 

A horror never before seen unfolded in late spring and summer 2014: the first urban Ebola epidemic in human history.

As Ebola spread through the densely populated urban center of Monrovia, Liberia, cases overwhelmed the country’s fragile health infrastructure. Hospitals and Ebola treatment units overflowed with sick and suffering patients; television crews filmed people dying in the streets.
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Healthcare

How Insights from Building Jet Engines Help Doctors Spot Faulty Insurance Claim Denials

Kristin Kloberdanz
September 25, 2015
It’s an endless headache, a migraine really, for American health organizations and patients alike: claims for treatment denied by insurance companies, causing endless frustrating phone calls to get payment disputes resolved. Now, thanks to an innovation made across multiple GE businesses, relief could be at hand.
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