GE announced on Wednesday it had completed the spinoff of its healthcare unit.
GE HealthCare began trading on Nasdaq as an independent company under the ticker symbol GEHC. The spinoff, which was first announced in 2021, is part of a larger effort to divide the 130-year-old industrial giant into three separate companies. It plans to complete the separation of GE Aerospace and GE Vernova, which is...
GE Heathcare and MediView XR, a med-tech company that leverages augmented reality, announced their collaboration to co-develop the OmnifyXR Interventional Suite System. It will combine medical imaging and mixed-reality solutions to assist physicians and their care teams.
The collaboration will pair GE's imaging technologies with MediView's augmented reality and surgical navigation expertise to...
GE Healthcare and AMC Health are partnering to offer remote patient monitoring technology to patients after they've been discharged from the hospital.
The collaboration will pair GE's clinical monitoring in the hospital with AMC's home-based tools, allowing providers to keep an eye on patients with chronic conditions or those recovering from a hospital stay, according to both companies.
Given GE...
Baheya Foundation – an Egyptian non-profit that provides breast cancer treatment free of charge – has partnered with GE Healthcare to explore the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve outcomes in patients.
According to GE Healthcare, it is working with the foundation and its hospital to “develop and validate the use of AI to assess and predict the response of neoadjuvant therapy” in...
GE will spin off its healthcare division, GE Healthcare, in early 2023 as part of a larger effort to separate the nearly 130 year old industrial giant into three separate public companies.
GE plans to retain a stake of 19.9% in GE Healthcare once it’s spun off. The conglomerate will also combine its renewable energy, power and digital businesses and spin them off in early 2024, leaving the...
GE Healthcare announced Thursday it has entered into an agreement to acquire surgical visualization company BK Medical for $1.45 billion in cash.
BK Medical provides ultrasound technology that can be used during surgery to guide clinicians. The companies expect the deal to close in 2022, pending regulatory review.
“We are immensely proud of the organization and of the life-changing technology...
GE Healthcare has pulled back the curtain on the Vscan Air, a wireless take on the handheld ultrasound technology it first debuted more than a decade ago.
Cleared by the FDA back in November, the battery-powered device is intended for use by healthcare professionals conducting diagnostic ultrasound imaging and fluid flow analysis. It connects to a companion app downloaded to a user's personal...
GE HEALTHCARE ACQUIRES SWEDISH STARTUP PRISMATIC SENSORS
GE Healthcare is acquiring Swedish medical X-ray imaging startup, Prismatic Sensors to boost its medical imaging business.
According to GE, the startups technology offers fewer doses of radiation to patients and more accurate X-ray imaging, and has the potential to be a "substantial step forward" in detecting cancer, heart disorders and...
Israel is continuing to carve out its space as a digital health hub in the Middle East. Today the Israeli government announced a $33 million grant aimed at furthering the country's foothold in digital health, specifically in biotech and medicine, according to Reuters. Medtronic, GE Healthcare, and Change Healthcare were named the three recipients of the funding; each company will get a different...
The Olympic Games are starting to prove themselves not just as a showcase for the world's elite athletes, but for leading-edge health IT initiatives.
A week ago we reported how the HIMSS Olympic Healthcare Interoperability Initiative alongside SNOMED International, will use the games after PyeongChang – the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo, the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing and beyond – as a proving...
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