Healthymagination

There are better ways to pass time than prepping for a colonoscopy. This week, the GE healthymagination fund invested in Israeli company called Check-Cap Ltd. seeking to change that experience.

Fluid partnerships and collaborations, rather than insular corporate research, are becoming the lifeblood of innovation. This trend was confirmed yesterday by the results of GE’s second annual Global Innovation Barometer. However, the barometer, which surveyed nearly 3,000 U.S. and foreign executives on innovation, also found a “partnership paradox.” While the [...]

GE released today its second annual Global Innovation Barometer, a survey of nearly 3,000 U.S. and foreign business executives on innovation. The report identified innovation as “inextricably linked” with economic growth and as the primary driver behind job creation and the rising quality of life.
The study also confirmed the findings [...]

In 2011, GE scientists, makers and business leaders created products, provided services and launched research projects that took on a wide range of global challenges. Here is our pick of the top five:
1. Reducing the High Cost of Solar Power: In April, GE announced that its thin film solar panels [...]

Pretend for a minute you are a nurse working with a group of doctors who help hundreds of patients with a disease like diabetes. Today, you rely on patients to come into the office with their individual charts from different doctors. Of course, there are also the [...]

With the global economic recovery pushing oil prices again above the $100 mark, Saudi Arabia, which holds some 20% of the world’s proven petroleum reserves and ranks as the largest oil exporter, may feel cheerful about its future.
Perhaps. But rather than just relying on oil revenues, which currently contribute some [...]

GE Healthcare announced today a $300 million investment in low radiation dose technology, bringing the total to $800 million since 2000. GE made the announcement at the RSNA 2011 trade show in Chicago, the largest annual radiology exhibition in the world.
Computed Tomography imaging, or CT, has quickly grown into one [...]