General Electric Co.'s (GE) GE Healthcare Tuesday revealed its plans to invest $2 billion over the next five years to accelerate the development of innovative software for healthcare systems and applications.
According to the company, this investment is designed to advance current and future offerings to address new and pressing operational and productivity challenges faced by healthcare organizations.
It will specifically focus on maximizing asset performance, improving hospital operations management, improving clinical effectiveness and optimizing care across entire populations.
Key focus areas include caring for more patients as a result of scheduling efficiencies, faster data entry, proactive asset management, clinical decision support and financial gains that allow for expansion.
Cost reduction will be a focus through optimizing workflow in care delivery, minimizing payment cycles, maximizing reimbursement rates and eliminating unnecessary waste.
Another area of focus will be minimizing rework and redundancies by enhancing collaboration and making patient information universally accessible.
GE Healthcare will work closely with the GE Software Center of Excellence in San Ramon, California - as well as various research and development hubs around the world - to develop new software solutions.
The firm provides a wide range of medical imaging technologies, IT services, patient monitoring and diagnostic solutions, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies and operational and technological service solutions.
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