GE Healthcare and InTouch Health are teaming up to train radiologists, high-tech imaging techs and more than 300 other medical professionals, using imaging devices for virtual onsite training.

Fifty InTouch Health Tech remotes will be rotated for Virtual Onsite Training amongst more than 200 locations worldwide to reduce the costs associated with onsite training, improve training quality and potentially savelives.

“GE Healthcare provides technology to providers and patients around the world. The users who operate those devices are as impactful, if not more so, on the actual efficiency and patient outcomes as the product itself,” said Mario Lois, General Manager, GE Healthcare Global Education Services in a statement. “Therefore, GE has made it a global priority to re-imagine its training and education solutions to help users achieve and maintain optimal skills and product usage.”

These efforts come after a successful two year pilot program where medical porfessionals used the Virtual Onsite Training device replicating face-to-face training through an attached video monitor and robotics for two-way communication and interaction.

"Our work with GE Healthcare is a natural extension of the clinical solutions we provide each day to thousands of practitioners, delivering seamless clinical efficiency no matter the clinical setting, location or treatment modality. The right care, at the right time, anywhere, is easily migrated to the vision of GE Healthcare of ensuring that the person using a device has the best training and support possible, whenever and wherever it’s needed,” said Joseph DeVivo, president and CEO of InTouch Health.