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Achtung, Baby: This Wireless Fetal Heart Rate Monitor Delivers

Liza Smith
January 30, 2019
Giving birth is hard enough without getting trapped in your bed by a mess of wires and cables. Just ask labor and delivery nurse Brigitta Fifield, who spends a lot of time helping her patients get comfortable.
Fifield’s job often required repeated trips to the delivery room to detangle laboring mothers from the cords that connect them to maternal and fetal heart rate monitors. Every time a soon-to-be-mom needed to roll over, use the bathroom or sometimes just scratch a toe, she would have to sort out the cables attached to her body that connected her and the baby to a nearby machine.
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Powering Laos on Many Levels

November 22, 2018

"Originally published on Wouter Van Wersch’s LinkedIn. Wouter is the President and CEO of GE Asia Pacific.
My first visit to Laos in September 2016, coincided with President Obama’s trip - when he became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the nation - and since then, I have always been impressed by the progress being made in the country whenever I return.

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GE Foundation Supports Expansion Of Safe Surgery 2020 Into Southeast Asia

September 29, 2018
GE Foundation announced its final piece of the $25 million commitment to global safe surgery by supporting the expansion of Safe Surgery 2020 into Southeast Asia, with the inclusion of Cambodia and Lao People’s Democratic Republic. The investment plays a vital role into accelerating access to surgical care in Southeast Asia as the region has one of the lowest levels of surgical provision in the world, with 97% of people currently unable to access safe surgical care.
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A New App Sees Signs Of Sepsis Risk In Hospital Patients — And Spurs Staff To Action

Jennifer Fox
Sam Worley
September 26, 2018
Every year, more than 1.5 million Americans develop sepsis, an illness that occurs when the body exhibits an extreme reaction to an infection. It’s an elusive and stubborn condition that causes 250,000 deaths annually. “Sepsis is difficult to diagnose, and if not treated early, is associated with high mortality rates,” says Dr. Matthias Merkel, medical director of adult critical care and chief medical capacity officer at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon.
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To Your Good Health - How GE Is Helping Cambodia To Bridge Its Healthcare Gaps

September 07, 2018
"Since 2009, GE - through its philanthropic arm, the GE Foundation – has provided $12m in funding to help bring quality healthcare to underserved communities across Cambodia. Modern medical equipment, new training programs, and other services, are some of the benefits that have been delivered to more than 40 hospitals in 25 provinces under this initiative.
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Digital Diagnosis - How Apps Can Help Bridge ASEAN's Healthcare Gaps

August 06, 2018
"Access to healthcare services is something many of us take for granted. For an estimated 400 million people around the world today however, access to medical support remains a pipedream including 65 million people living in various parts of Southeast Asia.
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Catching Cancer Early: For This Woman, More Breast Care Options Means More Time With Her Kids

Liza Smith
June 14, 2018
Jan retired from a long and successful administrative career in late 2016 and the 61-year-old mother of three was looking forward to spending more time with family and friends. Her kids were all grown and scattered across the country, and she had plans to go see them.
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Paying It Forward: After Giving Birth Prematurely, This Mother Left Her Job To Care For Babies In Need

Liza Smith
June 06, 2018
In 2012, Liz Kogler was pregnant with her first child and was not having the easiest pregnancy. Diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum — a pregnancy complication that comes with severe nausea, vomiting, weight loss, and dehydration — Kogler had to take multiple trips to the hospital for medications and intravenous fluids. But these were all minor inconveniences compared with what was about to come.
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Frozen: How Do You Bring Cutting-Edge X-Ray Tech To A Snowy Island Off The Coast Of Alaska?

Dorothy Pomerantz
May 30, 2018
Gambell, Alaska, is one of the few points in North America where you can see Russia on a clear day. The land around the tiny town, on the northwest tip of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, is barren without a tree in sight — nothing grows over 6 inches high on the tundra. Most of the year the town is covered in snow. The local Yupik people follow their traditional subsistence lifestyle of hunting and eating whales, seals and other marine life, which helps connect them to their strong cultural roots and is more affordable than importing a typical Western diet to such an isolated place.
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Improving Healthcare Affordability And Accessibility In Vietnam

May 28, 2018
"Vietnam’s National Socio-Economic Development Strategy 2011-2020 outlines some the country’s important near-term development goals, including healthcare targets such as providing 26 hospital beds, and two physicians for every 10,000 citizens by 2020.
In addition to developing and providing new skills and training for healthcare workers nationwide, learning how to use, and utilise new technologies is another important driver to improve standards and save more lives.
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