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In Celebration of Women in Technology

March 11, 2016
The number of women in leadership positions is increasing, but based on the Women in the Workplace study by McKinsey & Company and LeanIn.org, women are still underrepresented at every level in the corporate pipeline, with the disparity greatest at senior levels of leadership.
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Cloud

These 6 Apps Will Help Doctors And Hospitals Work Better

March 03, 2016
The combination of massive computing power, digitized information and connectivity has taken the world into a future few people imagined even just a decade ago. Still, talk to experts and they’ll tell you the commercial Internet, embodied by the smartphone, Facebook, Amazon and Uber, is just the start. The next chapter will belong to the Industrial Internet which connects machines generating rivers of data fueling powerful analytics. The results will give their operators new insights and help them optimize everything from transportation to medicine.
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Medical Imaging

These Machines Helped Unveil Secrets Of The Human Body

Tomas Kellner
January 26, 2016
Thomas Edison’s light bulb patent was 15 years old when Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays and proved their power by imaging the bones inside his wife's hand. "I've seen my death," she reportedly said after seeing the picture. But GE co-founder Elihu Thomson had longevity in mind. A year after Roentgen's discovery, he modified Edison's light bulb to emit X-rays and used it to build the first X-ray machine.
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Personalized Medicine

Reengineer This Body: New Center Will Help Scientists Reprogram Cells To Fight Disease

Tomas Kellner
Erin Bryant
January 20, 2016
Emily Whitehead was just 5 years old when she fell ill with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common type of childhood cancer. Most kids beat the disease within two years, but Emily relapsed twice after several rounds of chemotherapy.
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best of 2015

Best Pictures of 2015: The GE Edition

Tomas Kellner
January 04, 2016
Every year, GE sends photographers, filmmakers and other visual artists around the world to document its technology in action. 2015 was no different. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet traveled to the high plains of Colorado to document how GE was testing its most advanced locomotive, pilot and photographer Adam Senatori visited three airshows on as many continents to get close to the latest planes powered by GE jet engines, and Chris New climbed to the top of an experimental wind turbine in the Mojave desert.
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Personalized Medicine

From the Mysteries of the Universe to the Riddles of the Body: Inside GE’s Cyclotron Factory

Tomas Kellner
December 26, 2015
When Ernest O. Lawrence invented the cyclotron in 1932, the American physicist used his innovative particle accelerator to probe the structure of the atom. The cyclotron earned Lawrence the Nobel Prize and scientists today still use its offspring to get to the bottom of matter and even the universe itself.
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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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Medical Imaging

New Production Process Could Help Break Imaging Isotope Shortage

Erin Bryant
December 21, 2015
As aging nuclear reactors require increased maintenance, and even shut down completely, the strain on their production is being felt far beyond the energy industry: inside oncology and cardiac clinics. But help is on the way.
Every year, doctors order as many as 40 million medical imaging scans that require a radioactive isotope called technetium-99m (Tc-99m). The scans help them diagnose cancer, heart disease and other serious maladies.
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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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Medical Imaging

See the Heart in 7 Dimensions: This Team of Researchers Attacks World’s Biggest Killer with Software

Drew Field
December 03, 2015
By the time you’re done reading this story, heart disease will have killed nearly 40 people in Europe. The picture elsewhere isn’t much different. The World Health Organization reported earlier this year that more people die from cardiovascular disease than from any other cause.
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