future of healthcare
Waiting To Inhale: GE’s AI Solution To Assess Breathing Tube Placement Gets FDA Clearance
Like many tasks in medicine, threading a breathing tube down a patient’s trachea requires skill, patience and steady hands. Insert the tube not far enough and the patient can throw up food into their lungs, causing infection; insert it too far and you might trigger a collapsed lung or cardiac arrest. Doctors often order a chest X-ray to make sure the tube is positioned right.
COVID-19
All Hands On Deck: Volunteers Rush In To Support 24/7 Production Of Ventilators In Wisconsin
Tutku Gövsa is a computer scientist by training. But during the past week, he’s been on the factory floor in Madison, Wisconsin, helping GE Healthcare produce a clinical tool in the fight against COVID-19: ventilators.
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Teaming Up: GE Healthcare And Ford Partner To Quickly Manufacture Ventilators For COVID-19 Patients
On Tuesday, GE Healthcare and Ford Motor Company announced plans to work together to scale up the production of ventilators — a move aimed to arm clinicians with vital medical equipment to treat patients with COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus. Equipped with the essential functions required to treat COVID-19, the new system will be built specifically to address the urgent needs of the pandemic.
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GE Steps Up Production To Help Fight COVID-19
GE Healthcare, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of medical technology and equipment, is adding production lines, hiring workers and expanding output to help arm hospitals and medical professionals with the equipment they need to diagnose and care for patients suffering from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.