GE Healthcare

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GE Healthcare comprises the health services of the American General Electric Company, one of the world's top-selling conglomerates . GE Healthcare is based in Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire , UK . GE Healthcare achieved worldwide sales of around $ 20 billion in 2018, with a research and development budget of around $ 1 billion. It employs over 46,000 people in more than 100 states.

The portfolio includes medical technology solutions and services in the areas of medical imaging and information technology , medical diagnostics , patient monitoring , drug research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies.

Business areas

  • GE Healthcare Systems
Healthcare Systems encompasses a wide range of technologies and services for patient care, including a. Imaging technologies for the diagnosis of bone fractures , trauma diagnoses in the outpatient department, examination of the heart and its functions as well as for the early detection of cancer and brain diseases, in particular computed tomography , magnetic resonance tomography , X-ray technology, digital mammography and molecular imaging (including PET and SPECT systems); Ultrasound technologies , densitometry , ECG systems, patient monitoring , incubators and Wärmebettchen, ventilation and anesthesia management .
  • GE Healthcare Life Sciences
Life Sciences researches and produces in medical-pharmaceutical biotechnology . Areas include bioprocess engineering, protein research , genome science, and cellular imaging.
  • GE Healthcare Medical Diagnostics
Medical Diagnostics is active in the research, manufacture and sale of diagnostics ( contrast media and radiopharmaceuticals ) that are used in radiological and nuclear medicine examinations to display organs, tissues and functions in the human body.
  • GE Healthcare IT
Healthcare IT provides clinical information systems for radiology , cardiology , anesthesia and intensive care medicine as part of the Centricity® product family .
  • GE Healthcare Surgery
Surgery includes products for intraoperative and interventional imaging, in particular mobile fluoroscopic imaging systems - so-called C-arms - for use and the like. a. in surgery, orthopedics and cardiology.

Other services are

management

  • President and CEO : Larry Culp
  • President and CEO Global Diagnostic Imaging: Kieran Murphy
  • President and CEO Clinical Systems: Omar Ishrak
  • President and CEO Life Sciences: Kieran Murphy
  • President and CEO Medical Diagnostics: Pascale Witz
  • President and CEO IT and Performance Solutions: Jan de Witte
  • CEO Surgery: Pete McCabe
  • President and CEO GE Healthcare, International: Reinaldo Garcia
  • Chief Quality Officer: Dee Mellor

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GE Healthcare is represented in Germany with around 1,800 employees at 11 locations. a. in Munich , Solingen , Dornstadt , Wendelstein , Berlin , Hamburg , Freiburg im Breisgau , Braunschweig and Dassel . The main place of business is Munich. The location in Freiburg is the direct successor of Marquette Hellige , which GE bought in 1996 together with the parent company Marquette Medical Systems . The company is structured as follows

  • GE Healthcare GmbH (formerly GE Medical Systems Deutschland GmbH and GE Ultraschall Deutschland GmbH): Diagnostic imaging, ultrasound
  • GE Medical Systems Information Technologies GmbH: Clinical Systems
  • GE Healthcare Information Technologies GmbH & Co. KG: IT solutions
  • GE Healthcare Buchler GmbH & Co.KG (formerly Amersham Buchler GmbH & Co. KG): Medical Diagnostics
  • GE Healthcare Europe GmbH: Life Sciences

In Austria there are locations in Zipf ( near Neukirchen an der Vöckla ), Pasching (near Linz ) and in Vienna . In Switzerland there is a location in Glattbrugg near Zurich.

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