GE Healthcare Announces Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS to Transform Care Delivery and Help Clinicians Improve Patient Care
· GE Healthcare to make imaging applications, healthcare workflows, and data and analytics more accessible to benefit medical professionals, AI developers, and patients
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GE Healthcare Brings Radiology Without Walls to Resource-Constrained Small Imaging Centers With AI-Enabled, Cloud Imaging Solution
· Edison True PACS[1] is a transformative system, offering AI-enabled decision support to help radiologists adapt to higher workloads and increased exam complexity, and improve diagnostic accuracy
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In the 1970s, a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology traveled to Japan to figure out why that country’s automakers were delivering cars faster than their competitors in Detroit. Their search led them to Toyota and its Toyota Production System — a set of management principles focused on boosting safety, quality and efficiency, reducing waste and creating more value with fewer resources.
Much has changed since GE opened for business 129 years ago, but one thing has remained constant: the company’s focus on innovation. It is helping GE engineers find new ways to make the world more sustainable and help solve looming challenges like climate change, energy transition and decarbonization. Innovation is also the lifeblood of GE’s push to develop precision healthcare that will lead to personalized diagnoses and treatments, and make healthcare more accessible to everyone. Take a look at our list:
When Dr. Marta Sitges was in medical school at Autonomous University of Barcelona in the early 1990s, she studied alongside numerous women who were pursuing careers in medicine. Now, as director of the Cardiovascular Institute at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Sitges is often the only woman in the room.
“We have very few females in cardiology and, not only in this field, but in executive positions,” she says. “I haven’t felt discriminated against but, sometimes… being female, you have to demonstrate much more than being a male to reach the same positions.”
In November 2019, two days before his wedding, David Ilécio flew nine hours from Milwaukee to his mother’s home in Brazil. After a lifetime of secrecy, he mustered up the courage to tell her that he was gay and marrying his partner of 14 years, Aldoney da Silva Dias. He invited her to the wedding in São Paulo and nervously awaited her response. “I have one problem,” she said to him. “You only gave me two days to find a gown!”
Michael J. Barber didn’t have to look far afield to find his calling. He was just a senior in high school in Wisconsin in the 1970s when he landed an internship at GE Medical System, the forerunner of GE Healthcare. Over the next few years, as his internships and coursework expanded, he began working full time and finished his last two college courses at night to graduate. During the internship before his senior year of college, his colleagues at GE told him not to interview anywhere else and Barber listened.
Last year, Dr. Yale Tung Chen, an emergency medicine clinician in hard-hit Madrid, Spain, became one of a handful of clinicians around the world testing Vscan Air™, a handheld, wireless ultrasound scanner developed by engineers at GE Healthcare. The device, which GE Healthcare released for sale in the U.S. and Europe in March, beamed images from the ultrasound probe to an app on his smartphone, and this quickly became common practice on his daily rounds. “I’ve been using it on COVID-19 patients, scanning hearts, lungs, blocked vessels,” he says.
As an emergency medicine clinician in Madrid, Spain, Dr. Yale Tung Chen has treated many COVID-19 patients since the start of the pandemic. And when he developed last March the ominous constellation of symptoms caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus — chills, cough, low-grade fever and a nagging headache — he knew what to do. Like other people stricken by the disease, the physician quarantined at home and monitored the signs of his illness. But he also knew that his overt symptoms were not the full picture of the disease.
Many doctors and industry experts agree that artificial intelligence-assisted medicine will change healthcare.
