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GE

GE, The Next Chapter: GE CEO Lays Out Plans For The Future Of The Company

Tomas Kellner
June 26, 2018

GE announced major changes to its business portfolio today designed to stimulate growth and generate more value for shareholders. GE’s Aviation, Power and Renewable Energy units will form a new core of the company. GE plans to turn GE Healthcare into a standalone business, distributing 80 percent to GE shareholders and monetizing the remaining 20 percent.

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environment

Taking The Plunge: Why Ben Lecomte Plans To Swim Through The World’s Largest Floating Patch of Garbage On His 5,500-Mile Journey Across The Pacific Ocean

Liza Smith
June 21, 2018

In the Pacific Ocean, halfway between California and Hawaii, there is a massive floating blanket of bottles, bags and other plastic debris chiefly known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This collection of floating junk covers an area twice the size of Texas — 1.6 million square kilometers — and weighs an estimated 80,000 tons.

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Healthcare

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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GE Healthcare

How One Parent’s Heartbreak Turned Into Cancer Care For 7,000 Malaysians

June 05, 2018
In Malaysia, it’s estimated that almost 40,000 people are diagnosed with cancer each year and more than half of them will be lost to the disease1. But one young patient’s cancer diagnosis and death has drastically impacted how cancer is viewed throughout this tropical country in Southeast Asia.
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Healthcare

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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Healthcare

Watch This: A Twist On The Doppler Effect Opens New Vistas On Tiny Hearts

P D Olson
May 25, 2018
Surgeons need steady hands. If you’re Wolfgang Arzt, you also need nerves of steel.
Arzt performs heart surgery on unborn babies, inserting a needle into the mother’s womb and carefully pushing it through a tiny valve in the fetus’ heart that’s just 2 millimeters in diameter, or about as wide as a pinhead. Then he perforates the valve. “If I go 1 or 2 millimeters too far, I tear off the vessel and everything is over,” he says from his office at Kepler University Hospital in Austria, where as head of prenatal care he has overseen more than 140 such procedures.
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Handheld ultrasound aids patient care, prehospital and in the air

Natalie Filatoff
May 24, 2018
Airborne within five minutes of receiving an emergency call, New Zealand’s Otago Regional Rescue Helicopter service is equipped with life rafts, stretchers, portable oxygen, medical packs, a humidicrib, a Breeze Eastern winch with 270kg (595 pounds)  lifting capacity, GPS, radio directional finders, Nitesun helicopter searchlights, night-vision goggles and its latest investment — a handheld, pocket-sized ultrasound from GE Healthcare called Vscan Extend.
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Electrification Software health

Ready, Set, Match: Digital Solution Shortens Wait Time For Kidney Transplants

Kristin Kloberdanz
May 09, 2018
Eleven years ago, Jan and Garet Hil’s 10-year-old daughter experienced sudden kidney failure. When no immediate family members proved to have compatible kidneys they could donate, the Hils had to enter the unfamiliar territory of donor kidney matchmaking.
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Electrification Software health

The Insight Zone: New Software Takes The 3D Printing Of Human Organs To A New Dimension

Kristin Kloberdanz
May 07, 2018
"Like thousands of people every year, a man at West Kendall Baptist Hospital in Miami was recently diagnosed with heart disease. But unlike most patients, he benefited from doctors having access to an exact 3D replica of his heart to examine before surgery.
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additive manufacturing

Heart To Heart: Two Innovators Reveal What's Next For 3D-Printing In Healthcare

Tomas Kellner
April 29, 2018
Jimmie Beacham, who runs GE Healthcare’s Advanced Manufacturing Lab in Waukesha, Wisconsin, received an unusual request a year ago. One of his colleagues asked him whether he could 3D print his heart. “He just had a CT scan, and he brought the data file to us,” Beacham says. “We said, ‘Why not?’ ”
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