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One of the sessions being held at GE’s healthymagination technology showcase today is a business update for investment analysts. John Dineen, President and CEO of GE Healthcare, is among those who will be giving the financial audience a look at the state of the business and GE’s work to develop more products at more price points. Among the topics they’ll be focusing on, in addition to new technologies, are GE’s work in healthcare IT, services, biotechnology, and emerging markets. In the video below, John gives an overview of what they’ll be talking about today, and how it ties in with healthymagination’s focus on cost, quality and access.

In our walkthrough yesterday of the new healthymagination showcase — which is a two-week series of healthcare panels and seminars being held in Manhattan — GE’s Bob Schwartz, General Manager of Global Design, explained how the event space and its themes are all centered on patient stories. That focus on the human side of healthcare is one that will be explored in depth later this week when Bob and design experts from in and outside of the healthcare industry join GE’s “Health By Design” panel — which explores how the look and feel of technologies fuse with functionality to make a real impact on patient outcomes and patient experiences in often intimidating hospital settings. Bob explains more in the video below:

This morning, GE launched its two-week healthymagination showcase in New York City featuring an array of technologies with the potential to dramatically transform healthcare. One of the breakthroughs in the spotlight at the event in Midtown is the world’s first high-definition CT scanner — which is revolutionizing the way doctors view CT scans while simultaneously slashing the amount of x-ray doses a patient receives. To achieve the HD innovation, GE’s scientists built upon the natural properties of a garnet gemstone to create, for the first time in 20 years, the first new scintillator material, which is a ceramic that turn x-rays into visible light. The video below shows how the Discovery CT750 HD jumped out of the lab and into the marketplace to provide image clarity that’s never been seen before.

Today, GE launched its healthymagination showcase in the heart of New York City. Taking over a former bank building on the corner of bustling 5th Avenue and 44th Street, the two-week event — filled with a mix of seminars and thought leadership panels — highlights the transformative role that technology and innovation play in delivering better health to more people. On display throughout the futuristic space are 23 of GE’s latest healthcare innovations that spotlight breakthroughs in areas such as miniaturization, mobility, healthcare IT and molecular imaging used in cancer detection. The personal impact that these technologies can have is told in a series of patient vignettes told in first-person videos throughout the event space. As the team was prepping the showcase yesterday, we asked Mike Barber, Vice President of healthymagination, and members of his team to tell us what to expect in the weeks ahead.

In our stories last week, we talked with our employee volunteers on the ground in Cambodia, where medical equipment donated by GE is now up and running in three hospitals. Today, we turn to Africa with Part 4 of our recent video series chronicling the work that International Medical Corps is doing at clinics in conflict and poverty-stricken communities in Chad. Using medical equipment donated by GE — which includes mobile x-rays, ultrasounds, baby warmers, patient monitors and fetal dopplers — the IMC teams have been working with local doctors at three targeted hospitals to help provide care to nearly 200,000 people, including 30,000 refugees from Darfur. In the video, IMC’s Country Director for Chad, Dayan Woldemichael, describes how doctors now have the tools they need — and patients no longer have to travel 950-miles to use equipment at the next closest facility.