Efficiency as our biggest opportunity: doing our part to create value while advancing patient care

Last year, healthcare inefficiencies led to nearly $1 trillion of financial waste in the United States. It’s no surprise that healthcare executives report costs and transparency as their number one concern moving into next year. As a leading MedTech provider, it is our responsibility to understand these challenges and deliver products and solutions that address and help providers overcome them.

For clinicians, it’s providing them with technologies with intuitive workflows, that improve diagnostic confidence and require less rework, allowing them to spend more time with patients. For healthcare executives, it’s providing products and solutions that yield operational savings by improving technology utilization and helping increase patient volumes. 

It’s with this perspective that this year’s annual RSNA, GE Healthcare launched more than 30 new, intelligent imaging applications and smart devices designed to drive efficiency and productivity in radiology departments. To highlight a few:

1.      AIR? Recon DL*, an Edison application providing True Fidelity images, is a GE-first, deep-learning MRI reconstruction technology application designed to improve signal-to-noise and image sharpness and enable shorter scan times.

2.      Critical Care Suite is an industry-first, FDA cleared collection of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms embedded on a mobile X-ray device for triage.

3.      Edison? Open AI Orchestrator is designed to seamlessly integrate clinical applications into the radiology PACS reading workflow, reducing the complexity of multiple systems and algorithms working together that could leading to error and risk if implemented incorrectly.

At the core of efficiency is using data and AI to make our products and solutions smarter and providing a platform where healthcare providers gain easier access to market-ready algorithms and applications by directly integrating these technologies into existing workflows. That’s why many of the new smart devices and intelligent applications were developed using Edison, GE Healthcare’s secure intelligence platform that helps both GE Healthcare developers and select strategic partners to design, develop, manage, secure and distribute advanced applications, services and AI algorithms quickly.

Finding new, smarter ways to reduce waste and increase efficiency across healthcare is our industry’s challenge of today.

What advancement are you most excited about? For me, it’s bringing them all together to help health systems save millions while still proving high quality, efficient patient care. There’s so much opportunity for us; I’m proud of the progress we’re making.

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*510(k) pending at FDA. Not available for sale in the United States.