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.
In western Colombia — surrounded by towering mountains, an active volcano, and lush green coffee plants — lies the picturesque city of Manizales. In addition to being the heart of Colombian coffee production, the small community is also the hometown of Jorge Uribe and his father, mother, brother, and two sisters.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is probably not the most unpleasant medical procedure out there, but it does require the patient to remain motionless inside a long, very loud tube for whatever time it takes the machine to get a clear picture, typically around 15 minutes. For patients, especially those with anxiety, claustrophobia, or a tendency to fidget or who are in pain or too young to follow instructions, that can feel like an eternity.
Chicago, US – November 27, 2022 – Ahead of its planned spinoff from GE the first week of January 2023, GE Healthcare reveals over 40 solutions that aim to improve patient outcomes and increase healthcare efficiency at the Radiological Society of North America’s (RSNA) 2022 Annual Meeting.
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Dr. Rodney F. Hochman serves as the CEO of a not-for-profit health system. Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Phoebe L. Yang is an executive at Amazon Web Services.
Every morning, a charter jet takes off from Helsinki, Finland, bound for Örebro, Sweden. Its cargo: radiotracers. These radioactive compounds are essential for molecular imaging scans, which reveal metabolic processes inside cells. Radiologist and nuclear medicine physician Håkan Geijer and his colleagues at Örebro University Hospital depend on positron emission tomography (PET) scans to diagnose disease — like cancer — and, perhaps most critically, identify the best course of treatment.
Printing with sound, on-demand body parts, and liver rejuvenation. This week’s coolest things make the old new again.
Chicago/Stockholm: April 5, 2022 – GE Healthcare and Elekta (EKTA-B.ST) announced today that they have signed a global commercial collaboration agreement in the field of radiation oncology, enabling the two companies to provide hospitals a comprehensive offering across imaging and treatment for cancer patients requiring radiation therapy.
As hospitals increasingly seek flexible and interoperable simulation and guidance technology, GE Healthcare and Elekta aim to meet the major need for radiotherapy solutions across both developed and developing markets.
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