The board of General Electric Co. officially approved the tax-free spin-off of the company’s health care business, which will be called GE Healthcare Technologies Inc. The new company will begin trading on the Nasdaq on Jan. 4, 2023, under the ticker symbol “GEHC.”
GE Healthcare has introduced an all-digital PET/CT System featuring a new category of digital BGO (crystal-based gamma ray detection) employing a smaller crystal size to deliver greater spatial resolution than other digital scanners. Pitched at the European Association of Nuclear Medicine’s annual meeting in Barcelona on Oct. 16, Omni Legend was designed to accelerate scan times and has demonstrated, according to GE Healthcare global chief marketing officer Sonia Sahney, “impressive small lesion detectability.”
Ernst & Young’s (EY) annual Pulse of the Industry report offers plenty of reasons for optimism within med tech as the impact of the pandemic recedes, while identifying several key areas that will require continued focus for the sector’s long-term success.
GE Healthcare issued a class I recall for Carescape R860 ventilators that covers more than 4,000 units distributed in the U.S., which was necessitated by problems with the battery backup component. No injuries or deaths have been reported in connection with the problem.
If GE Healthcare’s GM of Monitoring Solutions Neal Sandy gets his way, nursing staff will perk up and notice a newly launched wireless patient monitoring system that helps them detect patient deterioration much earlier than periodic, manual monitoring.
Elekta AB signed a commercial agreement with GE Healthcare Co. Ltd. to expand hospital access to radiotherapy. Marlborough, Mass.-based GE Healthcare said it will combine its precision imaging solutions with Elekta’s radiation therapy portfolio to provide hospitals worldwide with a more comprehensive oncology offering.
At this year’s Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2022 conference in Orlando, Fla., digital health companies across the sector gathered to showcase new products and services. HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf urged the industry to focus on global health equity and a 2022 survey of health care leaders highlighted the elements of digital transformation that are causing the biggest buzz.
PERTH, Australia – Nearly three-fourths of medical device stakeholders supported introducing mandatory reporting of medical device-related adverse events by health care facilities in Australia, but many raised concerns about data duplication and integrity.
Two med-tech giants GE Healthcare Ltd. and Boston Scientific Corp. are teaming up to expand cardiac care in Southeast Asia. GE Healthcare and Boston Scientific reported plans to collaborate on an end-to-end cardiac care solution offered to cardiac care centers in Southeast Asia. The suite of care offered ranges from diagnostic to percutaneous coronary intervention.
Be careful who you’re doing business with. That’s the warning the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sent this week to multinational drug and device companies doing business in terrorist hot spots around the world. Reversing a lower court, the D.C. Circuit cleared the way Jan. 4 for 21 drug and device companies to potentially be held accountable for doing business with Jaysh al-Mahdi terrorists, operating through the Iraqi Ministry of Health, who injured or killed hundreds of U.S. troops and civilians in Iraq.
