Shahd Alhamdan
Saudi Gazette
DUBAI — GE Healthcare has announced an agreement with UAE health officials to develop radiology departments in the Emirates.
The company made the announcement during the Arab Health Exhibition and Congress in Dubai, where it signed a deal, along with partner Abu Dhabi Investment Company, with the UAE Ministry of Health for GE to manage, equip, and operate the radiology departments in 11 hospitals.
The company also toted its health cloud at the convention and said the service would spark a revolution in healthcare.
"We announced the GE health cloud ecosystem for the industry at the last annual Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting, few months ago, and that is an enabling platform for everyone — our competitors, other parties, and health care providers to really develop and deploy in any application that they build for their users," GE Healthcare's software chief technology officer, Evren Eryurek, said.
GE Healthcare also announced a partnership with Al Amiri hospital in Kuwait and Advanced Technology Company to support the expansion of the hospital as part of the Ministry’s strategic healthcare infrastructure modernization plan.
The company will provide the hospital with a range of healthcare services and technologies, including CT and MRI devices to improve diagnostic capabilities.
Conference visitors had the chance to see new GE technologies, such as, Invenia, the company's automated breast ultrasound system that provides scan results faster than traditional screening methods.
According to clinical studies, using the system in addition to a standard mammography increases the likelihood of finding invasive breast cancers by 55 percent compared to using just a mammogram.
Other GE technologies on display at the convention included ViosWorks, GE's MRI sysytem that reduces screening time and the need to screen patients, as well as DoseWatch, software that uses data analytics to capture, track, recommend and report radiation doses directly from any imaging device.
