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Innovations at CMEF to Meet China’s Healthcare Needs
Healthcare executives at a demonstration of an IGS Computed Tomography (CT) system during a hospital visit in Shanghai. “China is in the midst of a ‘new normal,’” said Rachel Duan, GE Senior Vice...
View ArticleNew Portable Ultrasound for Developing Nations Launched at World Health Assembly
Mother and child mortality is one of the biggest healthcare challenges in the world today. Although global estimates have been falling by around 1.4% every year for the last twenty years, there is...
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World Health Assembly Gathers in Geneva: What’s next for the Millennium...
Helga Fogstad of NORAD, speaking at the GE Healthcare UK Embassy event. This May 18th to May 26th, the World Health Assembly, the supreme decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO),...
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48 Hours, 450 Innovators, 8 Countries, and How the Next Health Start-Up May...
Jason Sanders, an Emergency Medicine Resident and PhD, and the team of health professionals he was working with knew about the barriers. The developing world, they’d been told, was still struggling in...
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While You Were Sleeping… Under Anaesthetic
This weekend, anesthetists from around the world will descend on Euroanaesthesia 2015, the European Society of Anesthesiology’s annual congress running between May 30th and June 1st to find out about...
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A Step in the Right Direction
Pfizer and GE’s In Vitro Diagnostics Team Up to Work on Cancer-Fighting Immuno-Therapies Dividing cancer cells, 3D artwork. Imagine a world where cancer treatment does not involve chemotherapy or...
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Not a Wasted Watt: Running Hospital Equipment in an Age of Austerity
2015 is a vital year for climate change action. With many scientists saying that we have now entered the Anthropocene era, and this year’s UN climate change talks expected to lay the foundations for a...
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Stopping Latin America’s Biggest Killers
The panel at the World Affairs Council of Atlanta. At last week’s World Affairs Council of Atlanta, CEO and President of GE Healthcare in Latin America Daurio Speranzini Jr. set a new direction for...
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Trim the Cost and Lose the Wait
The current healthcare environment shows that on average, 58% of a hospital’s assets are idle. And despite the seeming oversupply, nurses spend an average of 21 minutes per shift searching for lost...
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New Tech for Health Systems can Number-Crunch its Way out of Denied Claims
The Industrial Internet is fast becoming a cornerstone of modern healthcare. It now provides clinicians with the missing links between information and the patients who can benefit the most from it....
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This Flagship ‘Hospital of the Future’ Redefines the Patient Experience
Hospital is not always the most pleasant place to be. For most (if not all) patients, going for an MRI or CT scan is a daunting prospect, as sitting in a claustrophobic space is not most people’s idea...
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Is Education the Best Medicine?
In the words of Nelson Mandela, “education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.” Healthcare systems everywhere are being pressed to do more with less. More developed parts of the...
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Skills and Training are vital for Sustainable Emerging Market Health
The global health sector, especially in developing markets, is facing critical workforce shortages. Africa ranks the lowest in the availability of health personnel.1 With 12% of the world’s population...
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Knocking Down The Great Wall of Knowledge
West China Hospital of Sichuan University Named National Primary Imaging Doctor Training Base. China is seeing a shortage of doctors and nurses, most significantly in rural areas where they are often...
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Ultrasound in the Jungle: How a Group of Volunteers Delivers Healthcare in...
Much of the medicine we use today comes from the Amazon, the world’s largest and most diverse rainforest. Drugs to fight cancer, HIV, malaria and other diseases have been discovered here, and we have...
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This Hospital Just Saved a Projected 5 million+ Dollars a Year and Helped ICU...
Each year, 5 million humans are rolled into the door of the ICU in the United States. 2 Half of these patients are on ventilators, unable to breathe on their own8. Demand for critical care is...
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An “Ideal” Arrangement for Radiologists: Proving Innovation and Low Cost Can...
The ultimate goal of this first-of-its-kind agreement is to drive the “Triple Aim” – better care and better health at a lower cost. As hospitals across the U.S. experience increasing pressure to...
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The Fault in Our Genes: How CRISPR Could Eradicate Genetic Disorders
Each one of your 37.2 trillion cells contains all the instructions to make a complete human. These instructions are governed by a code made up of four letters: A, T, C and G. These are nucleotides, the...
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World’s Largest Single-Use Biopharmaceutical Factory Made in Germany, Bound...
Construction of the outer frame of one of 62 modules. In a few weeks, biologics manufacturer JHL Biotech will begin to take delivery of the largest single-use modular biopharmaceutical manufacturing...
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“Turmoil and Hope”: Future of Global Health Discussed at 70th UN General...
Image credit: Linh Do, Flickr Creative Commons. Eighty per cent of all people globally have little to no access to healthcare. That’s 5.8 billion people. Bleak as this sounds, there has actually been a...
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