Healthymagination

GE’s global campaign to accelerate the fight against cancer kicked off earlier this month—along with $1 billion in R&D spending over the next five years, GE and several venture capital partners announced a $100 million open innovation challenge to find and fund the best ideas for improving breast cancer diagnostics [...]

What happens when you ask 60 Australian high school students to create data visualizations about an impending demographic crunch down under (when an aging population begins to strains the healthcare system)? Not blank stares, as it turns out. Actually, the Visualizing Marathon 2011, which kicked off in Sydney and is [...]

Last week GE announced a new global campaign to accelerate the fight against cancer, starting with breast cancer. That effort will include the $100 million open innovation healthymagination challenge to find and fund the best ideas for improving breast cancer diagnostics. GE also announced several new technologies in development. Check [...]

It’s a staggering figure. Two-thirds of all women forego regular breast cancer screenings due to a lack of access to the appropriate facilities—be it up-to-date imaging technology, trained medical professionals or both. Put another way, just a third of the world’s women have access to such technology and medical expertise, [...]

At the launch of GE’s global campaign against cancer—a billion-dollar commitment to fund cancer-related R&D over the next five years, including a new $100 million Healthymagination challenge focused specifically on breast cancer—talk among the event’s panelists centered on the disruptive thinking necessary to fuel innovation and the challenges the healthcare [...]

This morning in New York, GE’s CEO and Chairman Jeff Immelt announced an ambitious new global campaign against cancer that will combine the unique strength of GE’s portfolio of integrated cancer technologies with collaboration between GE and new partners and data sources to help clinicians provide better, more personalized care [...]

As part of today’s cancer campaign launch, GE employees who are breast cancer survivors shared their stories in videos shown at the event in New York and featured below. Each cancer survivor describes a particular moment in their experience, and the videos are arranged chronologically, from the initial screening, to [...]