Healthymagination

GE unveiled Vscan, the pocket-sized, battery-powered ultrasound device in 2009. Since then it’s been used by physicians to improve maternal and child care in rural Indonesia, by trained clinicians and cardiologists in remote jungle villages in east Malaysia, and by emergency medicine doctors to examine athletes at the 2010 Winter [...]

Access to healthcare is a persistent challenge for many of the neediest Americans. The latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau show that the poorest U.S. residents are also most likely to lack health insurance. In 2010, some 16 million people, or 27% of the 60 million individuals living in [...]

Many women do not get mammography screenings for breast cancer not out of fear but because of distance from these services. GE has developed an innovative campaign to change that. It will allow women in rural communities in Wyoming to “pledge to be screened,” and book appointments at a traveling [...]

The United Nations estimates that as of today the world population surpassed seven billion. This is more than double the total from 1965. The growth is primarily coming from three areas: India, the Arab world, and sub-Saharan and East Africa. Take a look at how GE technology and ideas [...]

The technology allowing physicians to pinpoint the right diagnosis and match it to the right treatment is becoming the crux of modern medical research. “Everybody’s different,” says Gerard Brophy, head of new product development at GE Healthcare Medical Diagnostics. “So why are we all the same when it comes [...]

For many women, getting a screening for breast cancer can be an unnerving, intimidating, uncomfortable experience–so uncomfortable that some women avoid it altogether. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, less than 70 percent of American women aged 40 years and older have had a mammogram in the [...]

This week in New York City, 6 breast cancer survivors and 11 female designers will come together to share their stories and explore how better design can improve the breast cancer experience – from mammography screening through the entire patient experience. GE and several health and design partners are sponsoring [...]