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Software, Please: Doctors Are Looking To AI To Speed Up Diagnosis

May 01, 2017
The University of California, San Francisco and GE Healthcare are studying how artificial intelligence and machine learning can help doctors and caregivers make faster and smarter clinical decisions. Together, they will be developing deep learning algorithms aimed at delivering information to clinicians faster.[1]
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3D Printing

Have A Heart: New Software Could 3D Print Organ Replicas On Demand

Tomas Kellner
April 26, 2017
Erica Endicott was pregnant with her son, Kaden, when cardiologists at Phoenix Children’s Heart Center discovered that the left side of the boy’s heart was not growing properly. Kaden, who is healthy now, was treated by a team of doctors in Boston for the life-threatening condition. Following the procedure, they used data from an ultrasound system to create and print 3D models of Kaden’s heart before and after his surgery.
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medicine

Sound And Vision: Healing This Little Boy’s Broken Heart Required More Than Love

Maggie Sieger
March 08, 2017

Erica Endicott was almost halfway through her first pregnancy and she was feeling great. When the date rolled around for the second trimester ultrasound — a routine test doctors use to check that everything is going according to plan — she and her husband, Nate, were excited. This is the test when parents get to see their baby’s face for the first time, walking away with incredible images they will treasure for the rest of their life.

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Software

Make It Better: This Industrial-Strength Talent Has A Heart For Helping And A Mind For Building

Samantha Shaddock
March 07, 2017

“Most people probably wouldn’t say this, but I love hospitals,” says Lane Konkel. As a child growing up in Wisconsin, the 26-year-old lean manufacturing engineer would accompany her father, an orthopedic surgeon, to his office. “I’d play around with the little models of the knee and pull on the ligaments or I’d visit patients post surgery. For me, hospitals are connected to a lot of really great memories.”

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medicine

Slam Dunk: NBA Teamed Up With GE To Shine A Light On Stress Fractures

Tomas Kellner
February 21, 2017
When America’s top basketball players took to the court for the 66th NBA All-Star Game last weekend in New Orleans, some of them had reached the pinnacle of their profession after overcoming injuries, including bone stress injuries.
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medicine

A Pinky Promise: Even The Most Advanced Machines Didn’t Prepare This Doctor For A Mid-Surgery Magical Moment

February 20, 2017
When women visit Jin-Chung Shih, it’s almost always because their doctor suspects there’s a problem with the pregnancy. Shih runs the labor ward at National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei, and a recent visit from an expectant mother who was 31 weeks pregnant was no different. The woman’s gynecologist suspected the twins she was carrying suffered from twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. This means that one twin gets almost all the amniotic fluid from the shared placenta while the other gets too little.
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Innovation

Fast Company Magazine Names Two GE Businesses Among The Most Innovative Companies In The World

Alaynah Tombridge
February 13, 2017
GE made history last year when its wind turbines started producing electricity at America’s first offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island. The landmark project, the first of several planned for the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, launched the country’s push into a powerful source of renewable energy. It also earned GE a spot on Fast Company’s annual list of the 10 most innovative companies in energy in the world.
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VR

Playing Doctor: This VR Could Walk Physicians Through The Patient’s Body

Kristin Kloberdanz
February 13, 2017
Ludovic Avot and Yannick Le Berre are big video game fans. Avot’s favorite: Fallout 4, which guides players through post-apocalyptic Boston. The game is bleak but immersive, and playing it gave the GE Healthcare designer an idea. What if doctors could use video game technology to step inside the human body — like the heroes of the sci-fi movie The Fantastic Voyage — to inspect organs and tissues and search for disease? “We were inspired by the photorealistic rendering techniques of the high-quality games,” Avot says.
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The Lucky One: How Technology Helped This 15-Year-Old Woman Beat “Incurable” Brain Aneurysm

Laura Zarta
February 02, 2017
When 15-year-old Jessica Vargas from Cali, Colombia, started getting headaches two years ago, a brain scan told her family something they never wanted or expected to hear: Jessica had a large, complicated congenital aneurysm — a bulging blood vessel in her brain — on an artery that’s difficult to access.
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Cambodia Eyes Hydro, Steam and Fast Power Innovation

January 11, 2017
An early start, and heavy rain did not dampen the enthusiasm of Cambodia’s Minister of Mines and Energy, Suy Sem, the US Ambassador to Cambodia, William Heidt, and more than 140 guests attending the Powering Cambodia workshop in Phnom Penh on November 22.
Organized by Cambodia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) and GE, the event attracted industry stakeholders including government officials, business and power sector leaders, investors, and GE experts from around the world, to discuss new solutions to help Cambodia reach its energy goals.
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