Striking out on one’s own while working as a team may seem like contradictory ideas, but GE HealthCare President and CEO Peter Arduini made it clear that both themes will guide the company’s future after it spins out of parent company GE early next year. The occasion for his remarks was GE HealthCare’s Investor Day at Nasdaq in New York City.
For millennia, doctors hoping to catch a glimpse of what’s happening inside a patient had very few options aside from cutting the body open. But that changed in 1957, when American electrical engineer Hal Anger invented the gamma camera and doctors were able to see what was going on inside of cells.