GE Healthcare
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
- GE HC Financial Services , financing solutions (rental or leasing ) for medical technology systems.
- GE GoldSeal , trading in used medical technology systems.
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
GE Healthcare DA-CH
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.
Web links
- GE Healthcare (German)
- GE Healthcare Products (German) (PDF file; 73 kB)