GE Healthcare
GE HEALTHCARE FACT SHEET
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our broad expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies, performance improvement and performance solutions services help our customers to deliver better care to more people around the world at a lower cost. In addition, we partner with healthcare leaders, striving to leverage the global policy change necessary to implement a successful shift to sustainable healthcare systems. Headquartered in Chalfont St. Giles, United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com.
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2006 Revenues: $16.6 billion 2007 Revenues: $16.9 billion 2008 Revenues: $17.3 billion Research & Development Expenditures: ~$1 billion
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Our Vision At GE Healthcare, we strive to see life more clearly. Our "healthymagination" vision for the future invites the world to join us on our journey as we continuously develop innovations focused on reducing costs, increasing access and improving quality and efficiency around the world. In an effort to make even greater strides toward realizing this vision, GE Healthcare recently realigned its operating structure into five product P&Ls and five regional P&Ls, divided by geography.
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GE Healthcare Regional P&Ls Americas Asia-Pacific China EMEA India GE Healthcare Product P&Ls GE Healthcare’s Surgery business offers a range of market-leading intra-operative and interventional imaging products. Surgery's C-arm imaging products are integral in many fields including general surgery, orthopedics, neurosurgery, urology, cardiology, and GI, and for specialized procedures such as pain management. Surgery prides itself on offering imaging products with superb image quality and an unparalleled technical and clinical support team that ensures the products deliver optimum performance. GE Healthcare’s Healthcare Systems business provides a wide range of technologies and services for clinicians and healthcare administrators that can help caregivers improve the consistency, quality and efficiency of patient care everywhere. These technologies help provide fast, non-invasive ways for doctors to see broken bones, diagnose trauma cases in the ER, view the heart and its function, or identify the early stages of cancers or brain disorders. With X-ray, digital mammography, Computed Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance (MR) and Molecular Imaging technologies, GE creates industry-leading products that allow clinicians to see inside the human body more clearly than ever. In addition, with efforts in ultrasound, ECG, bone densitometry, patient monitoring, interventional imaging, incubators and infant warmers, respiratory care, anesthesia management and a wide range of technologies and services for clinicians and healthcare administrators, GE’s Healthcare Systems business enables clinicians to provide better care for millions of patients every day - from wellness check ups to advanced diagnostics to life-saving treatment. GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences business delivers breakthroughs in tools for drug discovery and biopharmaceutical manufacturing and the latest in cellular technologies, enabling scientists and specialists around the world to discover new and better ways to predict, diagnose and treat disease earlier. The Life Sciences business also makes systems and equipment for the purification of biopharmaceuticals. GE Healthcare’s Medical Diagnostics business researches, manufactures and markets innovative imaging agents used during medical scanning procedures to highlight organs, tissue and functions inside the human body, to aid physicians in the early detection, diagnosis and management of disease. GE Healthcare’s Healthcare IT business provides comprehensive clinical & financial information technology solutions including enterprise and departmental Information Technology products, RIS/PACS
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and CVIS systems, revenue cycle management and practice applications, to help customers streamline healthcare costs and improve the quality of care. GE’s involvement in key care areas: Cardiology Cardiovascular disease refers to any disease relating to the blood vessels. This includes coronary heart disease (including heart attacks) and cerebrovascular disease (problems relating to the blood supply to the brain, including stroke and brain haemorrhage). Advances in diagnostic tools, targeted therapies and IT-based disease management hold the potential to change the course of cardiovascular disease as we know it today. Integrated Cardiac Solutions from GE Healthcare transform how doctors predict, diagnose, inform and treat heart disease. Neurology Neurologists advancing the understanding of function and disease in the central nervous system rely heavily on modern medical imaging, from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). These technologies are providing ever better insight into neurodegenerative diseases – diseases that affect and degrade the functioning of the brain and the central nervous system. GE Healthcare’s expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping physicians develop new ways to predict, diagnose, monitor and inform about brain disease. Emergency Medicine GE Healthcare has a comprehensive portfolio of Emergency Medicine solutions and products that can empower customers to transform patient care. Our offerings provide Emergency Department clinicians and directors patient-oriented tools and information that enable them to consistently work faster and help improve quality of care. GE Healthcare has a unique combination of products and services to offer customers clinical excellence, technology leadership and industry expertise. Oncology PET/CT, CT, MR, mammography and ultrasound are all key components of GE Healthcare’s involvement in the field of oncology, with our Molecular Imaging business at the forefront. Molecular Imaging uses sophisticated diagnostic imaging equipment and systems to visualize specific ‘signal molecules’, based on their chemical and biological properties. This enables physicians to peer into the living body in to identify diseases, monitor their progression, and treat medical conditions at a molecular level.
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By monitoring patient response to treatment, molecular imaging provides physicians with an understanding of effectiveness for precision treatment. GE Healthcare also offers an array of imaging solutions for use in pre-clinical research for drug development and related applications to deliver complete solutions for Molecular Imaging research. Women’s Health GE Healthcare provides a broad, technologically advanced portfolio across the spectrum of femalespecific conditions. We are committed to developing technologies that enable earlier detection, more accurate diagnoses and personalized treatment plans for women affected by cancer, heart disease, stroke and other conditions. Bone Health: An integral part of a woman's overall well-being. Bone densitometry can play and important role in early detection and monitoring progression of bone loss. GE Healthcare offers options for in-office and portable densitometry systems as part of an overall bone health program. Breast Health: Whether delivering screening exams or a complete breast care continuum, GE Healthcare provides the most technologically advanced tools available to the field. Bringing together world-class expertise in the biosciences, medical imaging, information technology and workflow optimization, GE Healthcare can help optimize patient care from screening and diagnostics through treatment and therapy monitoring. Heart Health: Heart disease is the #1 killer of women globally. Catching heart disease early is critical especially for women that may not exhibit traditionally recognized symptoms. At GE Healthcare we are committed to a gender-specific approach to the prevention of cardiovascular disease, and to the development of innovative technologies that help doctors diagnose and treat their female patients. OB/Gyn Health: Obstetrical care is often the first in-patient experience for a woman and can lead to a life-long relationship with a care provider. GE Healthcare understands the importance of Obstetrics and Gynecologic care to a Woman's Health program by providing industry leading ultrasound technologies, unique therapeutic solutions for the treatment of uterine fibroids and world-class devices for perinatal and post-natal care.
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