GE Healthcare has unveiled new features on its Vscan ultrasound system.
The FDA has cleared the latest version of GE Healthcare’s Vivid E9 cardiovascular ultrasound system.
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.
GE Healthcare and NXT2B, a privately owned venture capital company started in 2011, have entered into a joint financing agreement with the goal of developing a micro-scale radiotracer infrastructure including cyclotron and PET tracer production.
GE Healthcare has received FDA clearance of Q.Freeze, a PET/CT quantitative imaging technology designed for treatment evaluation earlier in a patient’s cancer treatment.
Clino, a venture by Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, has entered into a research collaboration with GE Healthcare’s medical diagnostics division to discover in vivo imaging tracers for tau proteins that accumulate in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
Outpatient Diagnostic Center of Nashville has updated its facility, which included interior renovations and the installation of GE MRI equipment.
GE Healthcare has acquired SeqWright, a developer of nucleic acid sequencing and other genomic services, to add complementary genomics capabilities to Clarient, a unit of GE Healthcare in the molecular diagnostics sector.
GE Healthcare and Dyax have signed a licensing agreement for the development and commercialization of peptides binding to c-Met, which provides upfront, milestone and royalty payments to Dyax. The license includes application of the peptides in PET, SPECT and optical imaging.
The American College of Radiology’s (ACR) Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI) has released the official program for the RLI inaugural event, to be held July 12-15, at the Kellogg School of Management on Northwestern University’s Evanston, Ill., campus.
GE Healthcare has introduced the Discovery CT750 HD FREEdom Edition, which is pending FDA approval, at this year’s American College of Cardiology (ACC) annual scientific session in Chicago.
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.
The Pink Lotus Breast Center, a breast center focused on the prevention, screening, diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, has unveiled GE Healthcare's SenoBright, contrast-enhanced spectral mammography (CESM) technology at its flagship breast center in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Although most of the European women’s health imaging system market will decline over the next five years, overall revenues will increase slightly as a result of growth in the breast imaging system segment, due to the introduction and adoption of more expensive and innovative systems, according to Millennium Research Group.
Bay Ridge Medical Imaging, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based radiology group, has installed GE Healthcare’s Discovery MR750w 3T MRI scanner.
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AirStrip Technologies have launched AirStrip Patient Monitoring, which delivers patient monitoring information to critical-care physicians’ iPhones and iPads.
Iterative reconstruction, image processing software that reduces image noise while reducing radiation dose to patients, is the CT scanner technology garnering the most interest today, according to a white paper, “CT Scanning Systems,” published by the ECRI Institute.
