BOSTON – [July 9, 2018 @ 9am ET] – A global innovation challenge for the improvement of wellbeing in aging populations was announced today by a group of industry, academic and government partners affiliated with Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s Council to Address Aging. The In Good Company: The 2018 Optimal Aging Challenge seeks to develop... Read more
Zipf, Austria – June 28, 2018 – In the lead up to the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) annual conference, GE Healthcare and Vitrolife are partnering to improve patient outcomes in assisted reproductive medicine. Infertility is a growing health issue that affects a significant number of women and couples around the world.... Read more
Baltimore, MD – June 24, 2018 – GE Healthcare showcased new molecular imaging and software solutions at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) 2018 that will help deliver the vision of precision health, giving personalized, quantitative data to clinicians. The company highlighted a new configuration for Discovery MI, the highest sensitivity digital... Read more
Guangzhou, China & Chalfont, UK — June 7, 2018 — GE Healthcare will provide Xiangxue Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (XPH) with a FlexFactory™ for cell therapy, a semi-automated end-to-end manufacturing platform, to help scale up, digitize and accelerate manufacturing processes for their cell therapy clinical trials and future commercialization. This project marks the first-ever application of... Read more
Milwaukee, Wis – June 1, 2018 – With 25 percent of the Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) population expected to retire over the next 10 years, hospitals and healthcare systems face an increasing challenge to train the next generation of professionals safely, affordably and efficiently. At AAMI 2018, GE Healthcare is introducing interactive, customizable training options... Read more
May 30, 2018 (Toronto, ON, Salt Lake City, UT) — Degenerative disc disease (DDD) is one of the most common causes of chronic low back pain – a condition that affects approximately 25 million adults in the U.S. alone[1]. Current treatments range from exercise, non-invasive physical therapy and pain medication, through to spinal surgery in... Read more
Madison, Wis. – May 17, 2018 – GE Healthcare announced today a joint marketing collaboration agreement with FitTrace™, a leading cloud-based body composition analysis and reporting software company. As a global leader in dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and quantitative ultrasound (QUS) technology, this collaboration integrates the reliability and versatility of GE Healthcare’s DXA technology... Read more
Chalfont St Giles, UK, Pasching, Austria & Logan, Utah, US– 16 May 2018 — GE Healthcare Life Sciences is increasing the annual production capacity of powdered cell culture media by tenfold in its facility in Pasching, Austria. The newly built manufacturing suite will help to strengthen product supply for biopharmaceutical companies in Europe. GE is... Read more
BOSTON – May 9, 2018 – GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) is working with Preventice Solutions to provide customers with an extension of the hospital heart station and to expand GE Healthcare ECG services into the home, creating a more holistic solution for monitoring ambulatory ECG patients. The collaboration offers a unified solution to providing in-hospital ECG,... Read more
Chalfont St Giles, UK – 17 April 2018 — GE Healthcare is launching a ready-to-run factory-in-a-box to speed up the production of viral vector based therapeutics, including viral vector based vaccines, oncolytic viruses and gene and cell therapies. The new, prefabricated and modular KUBio biomanufacturing facility is designed, constructed, assembled and fully fitted-out to current... Read more