GE taking the Medical Industry to a Cloud of digital applications

Orange County, CA - April 27th 2016 - In the next decade, our entire approach to medicine is going to change due to a breakthrough made in data collection several years ago: cloud storing. You’ve probably utilized this in some way or another, whether through streaming songs or keeping digital photos, cloud storing has proven to be a booming business in the commercial sector. General Electric Healthcare (GE) is leading the medical industry to a cloud of digital analytics and medical applications.

GE taking the Medical Industry to a Cloud of digital applications

However, GE is harnessing data storage innovations and digital applications to foster wholesale changes how the medical industries conducts research and treat patients. Their work circulates around combining medical modalities–like CT Scans or MRI machines–with data collection software that stores information in their Health Cloud.

In making this shift towards cloud storing medical data, GE Health is creating a systematized way of cultivating connectivity for clinical connectivity. The group is already creating applications accessible through mobile devices and tablets that harness the data they have collected.

For instance, the Radiology Insights for Modality Utilization app uses machine data to track and trend x-ray rates. Due to the nature of it, scheduling scans can become a nightmare for busy hospitals. So GE sought to change that. The app can track data across entire regions or hospital systems, basically facilitating a conversation among medical scan machines, so one CT scan can tell the if the other is available for dinner next week, or not.

But GE’s application development goes beyond helping health care providers; their aim is to make medicine more effective. The Centricity Insights for Financial Management app is not only a mouthful, but also an analytics tool that looks for patterns in claim denials. According to a case-study from UC Irvine, one customer saved $93,000 in one month with the app’s help. These are just two of many more applications that GE Health has employed.

According to President and CEO of GE Healthcare John Flannery, the amount of data from healthcare devices will likely grow by 50 times in the next decade. In fact, they plan to have more than 500,000 GE Imaging machines connected in the Health Cloud, which was built on the same platform they used to develop the Industrial Internet.

A shift to data gathering and analytics means that at the heart of what GE is doing is connectivity. The implications of their technological advances for medicine worldwide are endless. It can catalyze clinical collaborations among physicians that will never meet one another.

As data is collected into the Health Cloud, others with the software will have access to it. So a doctor in China can analyze mammography scans from women in Canada ages 40-65 for her research without ever leaving her desk.

While we may witness a democratization of medicine in our lifetime, we need to address what kind of technology even allows for the type of connectivity GE Health is proposing.

Access to the cloud undoubtedly requires machines with network connectivity capabilities and the capacity to read a range of image types from analog to 4K UHD.

Overhauling an entire set of equipment for upgrades can be an extremely expensive endeavor and may push smaller hospitals out of innovations like GE’s cloud technology.

At Ampronix, we offer a host of OED solutions so those concerned with the bottom line can make their budgets while offering their Healthcare sites the best in modern medicine technology.

ChromamaxxVersapaxx, and Modalixx are just some of many displays we carry that have universal, autosensing connectivity to just about every kind of medical device brand. The Siemens Healthcare C-arm, for example, will show on Modalixx without issue.

As GE Health revolutionizes the medical industry with cloud storage, Ampronix is dedicated to revolutionizing the way in which healthcare providers can access these innovations in medicine.

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GE taking the Medical Industry to a Cloud of digital applications Orange County, CA – April 27th 2016 – In the next decade, our entire approach to medicine is going to change due to a breakthrough made in data collection several years ago: cloud storing. You’ve probably utilized this in some way or another, whether through streaming […]