GE Healthcare has acquired Novia Strategies, a healthcare clinical consulting firm focused on delivering critical outcomes in hospital operations. The acquisition will expand GE Healthcare’s clinical consulting capabilities to help healthcare organizations meet the demand for increased access, enhanced quality and more affordable healthcare for their patients. Originally founded under the name of InnoVia Health by Nancy Lakier in 1995, Novia Strategies help hospitals and health systems improve
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Hartford HealthCare, GE Healthcare Ink 7-Year Deal: 5 Things to Know: 5 Things to Know
Hartford HealthCare and GE Healthcare are teaming up on a 7-year innovation collaboration to launch a series of projects aimed at getting patients the care they need more quickly and safely. Over the course of the seven-year project, both organizations have committed to achieving measurable improvements and outcomes. Here are five things to know about the collaboration: 1. Over the next seven years, GE Healthcare and Hartford HealthCare will work together to help patients avoid unnecessary
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GE Healthare Taps eMedApps to Securely Access Stored Patient Info From Devices for Centricity EMR Customers
GE Healthcare has partnered with eMedApps as part of the GE Healthcare Centricity partner program that offers a comprehensive business continuity solution to GE Centricity EMR customers. eMedApps’ partnership with GE Healthcare will provide customers with an efficient and innovative contingency solution that allows clinicians, schedulers, and administrative staff to securely access stored patient information from any device – including mobile devices – whether their Centricity EMR is available
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GE Healthcare to Invest $500M In Unit Over Next 3 Years: 5 Things to Know
GE Healthcare CEO John Flannery announced this week that the company plans to invest $500 million in their healthcare technology unit over the next three years in digitalizing its operations. The move by GE Healthcare is part of a global push to evolve into a digital industrial-focused company to successfully compete against its rival Siemens and others. “It is our basic belief that we will grow faster within GE than outside of GE,” said GE Healthcare CEO John Flannery in an interview with
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GE Healthcare Acquires Fetal Monitoring Technology Monica Healthcare to Expand Digital Maternal-Infant Care Footprint
GE Healthcare has acquired U.K.-based wireless fatal monitoring technology provider Monica Healthcare to expand its digital maternal-infant care business. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The Monica acquisition will boost GE Healthcare’s mobile and digital offerings by providing clinicians and patients around the world with more innovative solutions for labor, delivery, and home care. GE Healthcare Maternal Infant Care offers neuro-developmental and family-centered
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GE, InTouch Health Partner to Use Telehealth in Remote Training for Radiologists
GE Healthcare has partnered with InTouch Health, a provider of FDA-cleared remote presence devices, to help train imaging techs and radiologists to use high-tech imaging devices. It’s an innovative use of telehealth technology that reduces the costs associated with onsite follow-up training, and in a recent pilot, was shown to improve training quality, potentially saving lives. The pilot connected GE experts to healthcare providers in over 200 telepresence classes around the world, successfully
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GE, Houston Texans to Fund 2-Year Concussion Telemedicine Pilot
The Houston Texans and GE are teaming up with the Houston Methodist Concussion Center to fund a two-year concussion telemedicine pilot to bring specialized concussion care to student athletes at 19 rural school districts in Texas. As part of the pilot, when a student athlete is injured in a game or practice with a suspected concussion, a Houston Methodist athletic trainer will go to the school or training facility to administer a comprehensive concussion evaluation, including a neurologic and
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Mission Health, GE Healthcare Form 10 Year Innovation Collaboration
Mission Health and GE Healthcare has announced a 10-year innovation collaboration to co-develop, pilot and deploy transformational healthcare solutions. As part of the collaboration, Mission Health and GE Healthcare will work in partnership to solve the system’s most complex challenges delivering over $40 million in savings for Mission Health over the course of the relationship. The partnership will initially focus on optimizing imaging experience and utilization and smoothing patient care
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GE Healthcare, ThoughtWire Partner to Help Hospitals Implement Digital Health Tools
GE Healthcare Partners, the global management consulting arm of GE Healthcare, and ThoughtWire, a Toronto-based software company have teamed up on a five-year digital health collaboration agreement. The goal of the collaboration is to help hospitals and health systems implement new digital health tools designed to improve productivity, quality of care and the overall patient experience. With both companies being experts in building healthcare apps for smarter healthcare, together they
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GE Centricity Named Official EMR Provider for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has selected the GE Centricity Practice Solution as the official EMR to be used by the medical teams of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The news marks the first time that all athletes and spectators at the Olympic Games will have their health interactions managed by an EMR.
Centricity PracticeEMR Solution will be used for managing data related to injuries and illness for athletes competing in the games as well as spectators, officials, athlete family
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