Covidien and GE Healthcare have announced a five-year collaboration to incorporate Covidien's measurement technologies into GE's patient monitors.
General Electric (GE) has reported that its healthcare unit saw a 5 percent increase in revenues and a double-digit increase in earnings in the first quarter of 2012, compared with the first quarter of 2011.
CHICAGO—On the road to value-based care, consumer electronics and technological innovations may be the key, said Eric Louie, MD, chief medical officer at Sg2 in Skokie, Ill., during a morning keynote March 23 at the American College of Cardiology Administrators (ACCA) meeting.
The drive for paperless medicine creates a lot of opportunities for innovative companies, but only six companies earn over half of the revenue in the EMR market, according to market researcher Kalorama Information. Still, the healthcare market research publisher indicates there are opportunities for smaller EMR products to grow; leadership of the $17.9 billion market for EMR is more fluid than it might appear from those results, according to the New York City-based organization.
GE Healthcare and Intel have established an evaluation lab in Israel to jointly test new technologies.
While a patchwork of best-of-breed EHR systems might provide the best clinical solution for different specialists, inpatient and large group leaders balance physician demands with the realities of implementing, interfacing and supporting each solution, according to a report from market research firm KLAS.
GE Healthcare has launched a 90-day evaluation period for its Global Patient Safety Network, offering hospitals and healthcare professionals an opportunity to connect with local and global peers on improving patient safety initiatives.
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AirStrip Technologies have launched AirStrip Patient Monitoring, which delivers patient monitoring information to critical-care physicians’ iPhones and iPads.
Montefiore Medical Center, an academic medical center in Bronx, N.Y., has attested to meeting the meaningful use requirements of the Medicare EHR incentive program.
GE Healthcare IT and Microsoft will demonstrate at HIMSS12 the future product capabilities of their 50-50 venture, a new company to be named Caradigm.
GE Healthcare has launched a new web-based patient portal, the Centricity Patient Online 13, which healthcare consumers can use to schedule appointments, pay bills, manage health information, send secure messages and receive reminders from providers.
GE Healthcare has decided to stop selling Centricity Advance, a web-based EMR, practice management and patient portal system, which was primarily marketed to office-based physicians.
GE Healthcare IT has appointed Michael Jackman, MBA, to the role of vice president and general manager of its specialty solutions business.
GE Healthcare has reported a 1 percent increase in fourth quarter revenues to $5.16 billion, and a slight drop—5 percent—in quarter profits to $953 million. However, the yearly revenue in 2011 rose 7 percent in 2011 over 2010—$18.08 billion versus $16.9 billion. Likewise, the healthcare unit’s yearly profits rose 2 percent from $2.74 billion in 2010 to $2.8 billion in 2011.
The global PACS market, valued at $2.8 billion in 2010, is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10 percent to reach $5.4 billion by 2017, according to a MarketResearch.com report titled “Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) – Global Opportunity Assessment, Competitive Landscape and Market Forecasts to 2017.”
The FDA has granted clearances for GE Healthcare's Brivo NM615, a single-head nuclear medicine gamma camera with SPECT capability.
General Electric, through its Healthcare IT business, and Microsoft are plan to create a joint venture aimed at helping healthcare organizations and professionals use system-wide tools to improve healthcare quality and the patient experience.
Black Book Rankings has released its annual rankings of the EHR vendors for inpatient settings. A division of the Brown-Wilson Group, a market research firm, Black Book Rankings surveyed 12,075 healthcare system stakeholders familiar with EMRs and graded their rankings of 422 EHR vendors against 18 separate performance areas.
GE Healthcare showcased advances across its portfolio at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago Nov. 27 to Dec. 2. New launches included interventional and cardiovascular x-ray systems, MR enhancements and technologies to address radiation exposure.
GE Healthcare demonstrated the newest version of its Centricity Radiology Mobile Access platform, which allows radiologists to remotely select and view patient images from Centricity PACS on their mobile Apple devices, at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
