GE Healthcare Introduces New Edge Technology Designed to Give Clinicians Rapid Access to Critical Data
October 14 2020 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
GE Healthcare today introduced Edison HealthLink, new edge
computing technology designed specifically for the needs of
healthcare providers, that allows clinicians to collect, analyze
and act upon critical data closer to its source. With 10
applications already available through Edison HealthLink –
including TrueFidelity image reconstruction, Mural Virtual Care and
CT Smart Subscription – the solution gives healthcare providers
another entry point into the Edison ecosystem.
While COVID-19 has accelerated the adoption of cloud technology,
analyzing data from a distance can pose various risks to
operational efficiency and patient care. Concerns around bandwidth,
network and latency challenges remain when a matter of seconds
could determine the outcome for a patient. For example, time is
critical when diagnosing and treating stroke—around 2 million brain
cells die every minute1 until blood flow is restored, increasing
the risk of permanent damage. Running advanced post-processing
software at the edge to evaluate brain scans allows clinicians to
analyze and act upon critical data without sending it to the cloud,
enabling rapid decision making.
“COVID-19 has accelerated industry-wide trends with implications
for the future of care delivery. It’s time to apply these trends
and use them to modernize the current health system
infrastructure,” said Amit Phadnis, Chief Digital Officer, GE
Healthcare. “As more care delivery becomes virtual and as more
healthcare data moves to the cloud, technologies like Edison
HealthLink provide a bridge, allowing devices to operate on
premise, at the edge and in the cloud.”
By operating medical devices that connect to Edison HealthLink,
health systems can continually receive advanced software updates
without requiring new equipment – essentially extending the life of
existing assets.
Built using GE’s deep healthcare domain expertise, Edison
HealthLink runs the Edison Health Services software stack, which
provides a set of healthcare-specific services – including
HIPAA-compliant data aggregation, connectivity, advanced
visualization, AI and non-AI algorithm orchestration – that
developers can leverage to build and deploy clinical applications
and workflows. These capabilities, along with other development
tools, can serve as the delivery platform for third-party
developers with edge applications for the healthcare industry. The
Edison Health Service software stack can be deployed at the edge,
on premise and in the cloud.
This Edison HealthLink news marks another milestone for GE
Healthcare’s Edison ecosystem, which helps GE Healthcare and select
strategic partners design, develop, manage, secure and distribute
applications and algorithms quickly. Healthcare applications
deployed on Edison HealthLink are part of GE Healthcare’s efforts
to provide clinicians with tools that help them aggregate data,
apply AI and analytics to that data and uncover insights –
empowering clinicians to achieve better patient outcomes, gain
efficiency and reduce errors.
For more information, visit gehealthcare.com.
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare is the $16.7 billion healthcare business of GE
(NYSE: GE). As a leading global medical technology and digital
solutions innovator, GE Healthcare enables clinicians to make
faster, more informed decisions through intelligent devices, data
analytics, applications and services, supported by its Edison
intelligence platform. With over 100 years of healthcare industry
experience and around 50,000 employees globally, the company
operates at the center of an ecosystem working toward precision
health, digitizing healthcare, helping drive productivity and
improve outcomes for patients, providers, health systems and
researchers around the world.
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1 University of Michigan Health System. "After a stroke, every
minute counts: New national guide for care." ScienceDaily.
ScienceDaily, 28 February 2013.
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