GE Healthcare
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Richmond s Bon Secours Health System Saves $5M & Reduces Patient Wait Times with GE s Technology That Helps Manage Use of Critical Medical Equipment and Operating Rooms in Real Time [Press Release]
Business Wire | 3 days 23 hours 39 minutes ago
GE is helping to lower the cost of care delivery at hospitals across the country, including Bon Secours Richmond Health System, which today announced it has seen $5 million in savings over a 5-year period through its Performance Solutions partnership with GE Healthcare, a business unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Bon Secours also announced an expanded collaboration with GE that is projected to produce significant additional savings for the health system over the next three years t...
ONI Medical Systems Inc. Successfully Closes MRI Technology Platform Sale to GE Healthcare [Press Release]
Business Wire | 3 days 19 hours 21 minutes ago
ONI Medical Systems Inc. announced today that it successfully closed the sale of its MRI technology platform to the GE Healthcare division of General Electric Company on November 6, 2009. With the purchase of ONI’s high performance, low-cost dedicated purpose MRI technology, GE Healthcare is expanding its product line of comprehensive healthcare solutions to enhance its customers’ ability to deliver patient-centered healthcare.
GE Healthcare s Spectral Imaging Advances CT Diagnosis; Delivers Technology to Medical Centers Amid Strong Customer Demand [Press Release]
Business Wire | 6 days 16 hours 56 minutes ago
GE Healthcare today announced results from its ongoing customer evaluation of Gemstone Spectral Imaging, a technology aiming to enhance CT’s diagnostic capability. Gemstone Spectral Imaging is an available option for Discovery CT750HD systems and is being delivered to customers worldwide.
sound-eklin Announces Exclusive Partnership With GE Healthcare to Meet Veterinary Ultrasound Needs [Press Release]
MarketWire | 6 days 17 hours 39 minutes ago
CARLSBAD, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/16/09 -- sound-eklin, the leading provider of digital radiography, PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications Systems) and diagnostic ultrasound solutions for veterinary care, announced today that it is the exclusive provider of GE Healthcare ultrasound systems for the veterinary marketplace. GE Healthcare is the worldwide leader in ultrasound system sales according to the Klein Biomedical 2008 Ultrasound Industry Report.
ART Advanced Research Technologies Inc. Announces Restructuring Agreement and Proposal to Creditors [Press Release]
MarketWire | 2 days 6 hours 43 minutes ago
MONTREAL, CANADA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/20/09 -- ART Advanced Research Technologies Inc. (ART) (TSX: ARA), a Canadian medical device company and a leader in optical molecular imaging products for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, announces that its strategic review process has culminated in ART entering into an agreement today with Dorsky Worldwide Corp. ("Dorsky") to restructure ART's balance sheet and share capital and position it to continue in business.
FDA: Some MRI contrast agents might cause serious skin disease
FDLI SmartBrief | 5 days 7 hours 39 minutes ago
Some contrast agents, including GE Healthcare's Omniscan, Bayer's Magnevist and Covidien's Optimark, appear to increase the risk of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis, a...
Studies show promising results for AdreView radiopharmaceutical
SNM SmartBrief | 5 days 7 hours 39 minutes ago
...the AdreView radiopharmaceutical might help determine patients' risk of cardiac death and cardiac arrhythmias, said GE Healthcare, the maker of the radiopharmaceutical. The two trials make up the ADMIRE-HF trial, which was undertaken in 96...
The Ensign Group Secures $40 Million Loan From GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 6 days 21 hours 39 minutes ago
...Secures $40 Million Loan From GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services PRNewswire...expressed appreciation for lender GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services. "GE...over $17 billion invested, GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services is a premier...
GE Healthcare and TeleHealth Services Partner to Bring Advanced Nurse Call Solution to Hospitals [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 17 days 19 hours 9 minutes ago
RALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ --
GE Working to Improve Access to Prenatal Care [Press Release]
Business Wire | 20 days 22 hours 46 minutes ago
In the quest to expand access to high quality prenatal care to communities with limited healthcare services, GE Global Research, the technology development arm for the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), has been awarded a two-year, $1.2 million project under the federal stimulus program from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a low-cost transducer for portable ultrasound systems that maintains the highe...
Update on GE Healthcare s Global Initiative to Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Digital Mammography [Press Release]
Business Wire | 43 days 16 hours 53 minutes ago
GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) wishes to issue the following update and correction to its release NewsItemID 20090923005515 (GE-HEALTHCARE) "GE Healthcare Launches Global Initiative to Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Digital Mammography" issued September 23, 2009:
New GE eHealth Business Better Connects Patients, Hospitals, Doctors to Critical Information [Press Release]
Business Wire | 24 days 22 hours 17 minutes ago
GE Healthcare today announced the launch of eHealth, a new business unit offering enhanced connectivity to clinicians and patients designed with data privacy and security features to enable health information sharing that can help increase efficiency, reduce error and improve health outcomes. A part of GE’s healthymagination initiative to improve quality and access while reducing cost, the eHealth business tackles one of healthcare’s most pressing problems – fragmented clinical information tr...
Nielsen Announces 2009 Winners of the First-Ever CLIO Healthcare Awards [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 6 days 14 hours 37 minutes ago
...2009 Winners of the First-Ever CLIO Healthcare Awards -- Dr. Mehmet C. Oz Accepts Honorary CLIO Healthcare Award -- PRNewswire NEW YORK Nov...Campaign, Ling Long X-Ray/Mac 400, "GE Healthcare TV" Mangos, Print, Direct to Professional...
Centegra Health System Selects GE Centricity Enterprise [Press Release]
Business Wire | 40 days 20 hours 9 minutes ago
GE Healthcare, a leading provider of healthcare information technology, today announced Centegra Health System (McHenry, Ill.) selected GE’s Centricity Enterprise Electronic Medical Record (EMR), an integrated clinical, financial and administrative healthcare IT solution.
Research and Markets: Radiopharmaceuticals - A US and European Market Analysis [Press Release]
Business Wire | 4 days 3 minutes ago
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/410c60/radiopharmaceutica) has announced the addition of the "Radiopharmaceuticals - A US and European Market Analysis" report to their offering.
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Company Overview
| Company: | GE Healthcare |
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| Industry: | Medical Equipment & Supplies |
| Website: | http://www.gehealthcare.com/usen/index.html |
The health care unit of diversified giant General Electric, GE Healthcare is a leading maker of diagnostic imaging equipment, such as MRI, ultrasound, and computed tomography (CT) scanners. And while such imaging is the unit's main offering, it has its fingers in other medical equipment pies as well. It makes surgical and clinical scanning and monitoring systems (such as ECG and ultrasound monitors), as well as contrast agents (dyes) used in imaging procedures. GE Healthcare also develops life sciences technology for drug discovery, makes clinical and financial management software for health care providers, and provides a range of services from consulting to equipment financing for hospitals.
Key Numbers
| Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 17,300 (2008) |
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| One-year % Growth in Sales | 2.4 (2008) |
| Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 0 () |
| One-year % Growth in Net Income | 0.0 () |
| Number of Employees | 46,000 (2008) |
| One-year % Growth in Number of Employees | 0.0 (2008) |
| Fiscal Year-End | December |
