GE Healthcare has launched an accelerator focused on startups creating technologies that can improve healthcare delivery in developing or low-resource settings. The company is offering as much as $5 million per startup, reports Business Wire. John Flannery, president & CEO of GE Healthcare said, "Globally, it’s estimated that more than...
Wipro-GE Healthcare Launches First India-Made CT Machine
Wipro GE Healthcare shipped out the first Computed Tomography system designed and developed in India to a hospital in Pune, in the western state of Maharashtra. “This is the first CT system to be entirely designed, developed and manufactured in India,” said Milan Rao, President and CEO, GE Healthcare South...
GE’s High-Quality, Low-Cost CT Scanner “Made in India”
GE's R&D center in Bangalore is its largest outside that in the U.S. and one of its mandates is to produce quality products that are priced significantly lower than imported equivalents. The Times of India reports that the latest device developed by the company is the computed tomography (CT) system,...
USAID and Mass General's Camtech Host Med-Tech "Hackathon" in Bangalore
Two day intense programming projects or "hackathons" are quite common in the software business, but India hosted a first-of-a-kind medical device and healthcare project this year. As part of a new, USAID-funded partnership with GE Healthcare India and Glocal Healthcare, CAMTech’s first ever healthcare Hackathon took place at GE’s R&D...
GE Healthcare Funds University Innovation
GE Healthcare has funded a three year $150,000 project to develop affordable medical technologies in the areas of cardiovascular care, oncology and maternal and child healthcare. The project will identify, assess and evaluate appropriate technology solutions and then, create equipment accordingly. Professor Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam, Head, Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC),...
Innovative partnership to Address Cancer Treatment Market in India
GE Healthcare is jointly investing $130 million with Pennsylvania based Cancer Treatment Services International (CTSI) to set up a chain of 25 cancer detection and treatment centers across India. GE will provide equipment while CTSI, which set up the 250-bed American Oncology Institute in Hyderabad in 2012, will take care...