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By  Trevor Dermody 10:28 am April 3, 2024
Chicago-based GE HealthCare announced it closed its acquisition of AI and imaging solutions company MIM Software, expanding its digital imaging offerings.  Cleveland-based MIM Software provides remote software solutions for oncology, nuclear medicine, cardiac imaging and neuroimaging.  The company touts its products as reducing time spent on manual tasks, allowing clinicians to focus on providing...
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By  Emily Olsen 01:06 pm January 4, 2023
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...
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By  Jessica Hagen 01:07 pm November 29, 2022
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...
By  Bernie Monegain 03:45 pm November 28, 2017
GE Healthcare has partnered with Nvidia to fast-track artificial intelligence adoption in healthcare and with Intel to boost digital imaging. The Nvidia partnership builds on GE Healthcare’s 10-year alliance with the company to bring the most sophisticated artificial intelligence to GE Healthcare’s 500,000 imaging devices globally and to accelerate healthcare processing. The new CT system is two...
By  Bernie Monegain 06:16 pm July 12, 2017
GE Healthcare and HeartFlow are working together to increase the clinical availability and adoption of HeartFlow FFRct, a proprietary technology that helps clinicians diagnose and treat patients with suspected coronary artery disease. The goal of the partnership is to increase the clinical availability and adoption of the technology, the partners say. They announced the collaboration on Thursday...
By  Heather Mack 03:17 pm July 7, 2016
Investment in digital health for the first half of 2016 has reached $3.9 billion, breaking funding records and showing a robust market that is expected to continue growing, according to a midyear report by digital health network and accelerator StartUp Health. The report found the first half of 2016 to post the largest mid-year total on record for the industry, besting both last year's $2.9...
By  Jonah Comstock 10:04 am January 21, 2015
A Dublin, Ireland-based company, Kinesis, has found that its QTUG system, which uses app-connected wearable sensors to assess fall risk, could be valuable for evaluating multiple sclerosis, too. Studies have found the technology to be 10 to 20 percent more accurate than existing methods for detecting falls. Kinesis, a spin-off of Dublin's TRIL Centre for aging technology research, launched last...
By  Brian Dolan 03:00 am December 9, 2013
Qualcomm Life Fund's Jack Young More than $4 billion has been invested in digital health startups in the past three years, Qualcomm Life Fund's director Jack Young told attendees at HIMSS' Venture+ event at the mHealth Summit this week, and that means those investors are expecting a total return of about $15 billion in the next five to seven years. Young said the excitement in digital health...
By  Neil Versel 06:44 am September 27, 2013
Louis Burns, CEO of Intel-GE Care Innovations since the joint venture launched in early 2011 and, before that, head of Intel's Digital Health Group, will retire at the end of the year, Roseville, Calif.-based Care Innovations announced Thursday. Taking his place will be former Humana executive Sean Slovenski, who brings a background in behavior change and wellness to the three-year-old maker of...
By  Jonah Comstock 01:33 pm May 28, 2013
Clinical results from the New Cities Foundation pilot study A 2012 PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report suggested that in the years to come, US mobile health development would trail developing countries like South Africa, India, and Brazil, and another PwC report predicted a $46.6 million health app market in Brazil by 2015. That Brazilian market has been the focus of a lot of attention lately,...