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MacDoctor

Two generations ago we thought of doctors as carrying just a single black bag. In one of John Huston's first screenplays, "The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse," the doctor's black bag is a key device. The doctor, played by Edward G. Robinson, holds stolen jewels in it, but no...

Tags: Doctor, GE Healthcare, Document Management, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-26

GE Healthcare buys a Web strategy

GE Healthcare buys a Web strategyNewsflash! GE enters the 21st Century!Web based PACS have been around for a while. Philips recognized this when they acquired Stentor and re-branded Stentor as "iSite" years ago, while GE was still trying to plug Centricity their current proprietary PACS. iSite...

Tags: Channel management, HEALTHCARE, iSite, General Electric Co., Web, GE Healthcare, health care

Discussion threads 2007-10-14

GE Healthcare buys a Web strategy

Most diagnostic equipment is an island of technology. Its output is a report or a printed file. Now GE Healthcare has taken its first step toward linking all that data through its acquisition of Dynamic Imaging. Dynamic Imaging has been pushing the idea of...

Tags: Strategy, Web, Pacs, General Electric Co., Imaging, Health Care, Standards, GE Healthcare, Dynamic Imaging, Quality, Healthcare, Document Management, Channel Management, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-12

Best Practices: GE Healthcare - Do you have an Einstein Working for You?

Setting up a successful call center for providing technical support for complex products is much like a science experiment; the processes are well documented and have been established for many years. It's a combination of applying the right technology with the right processes and providing the perfect blend of operational...

Tags: General Electric Co., Kaidara Software Inc., Health Care, Best Practice, GE Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

White papers 2006-05-01

Qualcomm Case Study: GE Healthcare - Clinical Services

GE Healthcare is a $14 billion unit of General Electric Company. The company sought a way to dispatch this distributed team of skilled engineers to the appropriate facilities, based on both the type of equipment they are qualified to repair and their home office location. GE Healthcare-Clinical Services gave its...

Tags: General Electric Co., Qualcomm Inc., GE Healthcare, Roi/Tco, Healthcare, Team Management, Smart Phones, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Case studies

Additional Resources

Immelt seeks to unite healthcare with Silicon Valley mainstream

A lot was written about GE chairman Jeff Immelt's appearance yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit, but one key point can't be emphasized enough. Jeff Immelt was at the Web 2.0 Summit. He wasn't at a health care show. He was pitching tech people. ...

Tags: General Electric Co., Health Care, Immelt, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Web 2.0, Human Resources, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Will the policy debate narrow or end?

here we go again!Obama is trying to destroy the best healtcare system in the world and give free care to people who don't deserve it.The solutions for the healt reform are simple and have been enumerated by conservatives like John McCain and others:1.Vouchers to buy insurance2.Tort reform3.Tax cuts in the...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Obama, car

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

Are health IT vendors trying to pull a fast one?

Not sure about your last question, i guess he would be the best person...to ask.I think that sage, GE, siemans and mckesson do have the experience necessary to make good decisions, but these are also the guys who make software for the healthcare field.Maybe their vested interest also includes self...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Quality, HIT Standards Committee, Kibbe, health care

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

WellAWARE of watching grandma

WellAWARE of watching grandmaBehavioral Telecare Still In The MixWith all the talk recently of convergence between telecare and telehealth the latter is vital signs monitoring, here you finally get a partnership between two major national healthcare providers which are willing to bet on residential behavioral telecare to support aging in...

Tags: VOIP, WellAWARE, HealthSense, QuietCare

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

GE plays the embrace and extend game

GE plays the embrace and extend gameWhat really matters -- Quality care and cost of courseThis is a good market for GE; electronic medical records can increase efficiency and only about 10% - 15% of hospitals -- and about the same percent of doctors -- have adopted EMR systems....

Tags: Quality, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Strategy, game, EMR Systems, standards, General Electric Co., government

Discussion threads 2008-11-19

Cell images on Times Square?

If you're in New York this coming week, don't miss the images which will be displayed on the high-definition TV NBC screen at Times Square. General Electric -- which owns NBC -- launched last year a competition for the best images taken with its IN Cell Analyzer systems. GE received...

Tags: General Electric Co., Image, Cell, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-01

HIMSS moving on interoperability roadmap

One of the big problems in hospital computing has long been simple interoperability. Given the high sales cost and high value of a hospital sale, vendors resist this. Proprietary protections make the HIMSS show floor look like a trip back to the 1980s. There are big booths...

Tags: Open Standard, Goal, Workflow, Hospital Computing, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-27

Can HiTrust bring electronic health records forward?

HiTrust the Health Information Trust Alliance has launched with great fanfare. Its mission is to "a common security framework for use by all parties that create, access, store or exchange personal health information." Sounds promising. Its common security framework PDF would establish...

Tags: Security, Electronic Health Record, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, E-health, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-19

Always-On or Always-In

When I first started writing about the World of Always-On, almost five years ago, I envisioned sensors worn on clothing which would interact with wireless networks to monitor health in real-time. As the field evolved Always-On has become Always-In. A Body Computing Conference in October saw industry...

Tags: Sensor, Health Care, MEMS, Wireless Network, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-03

MedTech needs the BSA's help, stat

Attention Business Software Alliance! You need to offer better coverage to the medical technology area, stat. (Me love Dilbert. Image from Boingboing.)  No, the dermatologist isn't running a pirated copy of Microsoft Word. We're talking here of expensive medical imaging software from companies like...

Tags: Game, Business Software Alliance, MedTech, Games, Healthcare, Tools & Techniques, Personal Technology, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-07

GE CEO Jeff Immelt: India, globalization and the economics of scarcity

The influence of India on the technology industry was on display at the Indian Institute of Technology IIT Alumni 2007 Global Conference taking place at the Santa Clara Convention Center in the heart of Silicon Valley. The IIT is India's premier technology university and its toughest. Last year nearly...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-07-06

New HP Integrity NonStop Solutions: Working NonStop Around the World

The attendee of this webcast will learn how Home Depot, GE Healthcare, Belgacom, CME, Bon-Ton Stores & CEKAB use HP Integrity NonStop Solutions to speed growth, reduce costs & mitigate risks, by being up and running, 24/7.

Tags: HP Integrity, Hewlett-Packard Co., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management

Webcasts 2007-01-01

Medical Technology Provider Makes Product More Affordable With New Database Solution

As part of the company's drive for continuous improvement and to meet its accelerated development needs, GE Healthcare made a strategic business decision to consolidate two of its applications: Centricity Physician Office Electronic Medical Records EMR and Centricity Physician Office Practice Management, which simplify office processes. GE Healthcare determined that...

Tags: General Electric Co., Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Benefits, Databases, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Hardware, Human Resources, Data Management

Case studies

Intel Xeon Processor-Based Platform Drives Filmless Radiology at Tan Tock Seng Hospital to Get Medical Info to Clinicians Faster Than Before

When the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome SARS crisis broke out in Singapore, Tan Tock Seng Hospital TTSH had just gone online with its new Radiology Information System RIS and Picture Archiving and Communications System PACS. The timing could not have been better. TTSH became a SARS screening center and in...

Tags: Hospital, Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., SARS, Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

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