GE Healthcare to Host Community Hospital Learning Event
by Barbara Kram, Editor | April 07, 2008
This event will take
place in Waukesha, WI
place in Waukesha, WI
WAUKESHA, WI, March 27, 2008 - GE Healthcare will host a two-day collaborative workshop April 22-23 in an effort to help educate hospital administrators nationwide on the benefits of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.
During the seminar, GE Healthcare's president and CEO, Joe Hogan, and leaders from various hospitals and medical centers around the country will join to discuss the clinical benefits of MR technology, industry trends and advanced applications that can help physicians diagnose a wide range of diseases within a community hospital.
"As leaders in the MR industry, GE Healthcare is committed to delivering the best technology and services to our customers worldwide," said Hogan. "The primary objective of this event is to further the dialogue between existing users of MR technology and those interested in implementing the technology in their facilities. It will be a great way for hospital administrators to network with colleagues sharing similar needs for technology and discuss the best ways to provide quality patient care."
The following individuals will be presenting at the workshop of their experiences with MR technology:
-Jeanie Gentry, VP of Allied Services at St. John's Lutheran
Hospital in Libby, Montana
-Pat Dailey, Director of Radiology at Saunders Medical Center in
Wahoo, Nebraska
-Carolyn Messner, DSW, MSW, LCSW-R, BCD, Director of Education &
Training, CancerCare
-Michael Silver, Vice President, Sg2
-Craig Aasved, CEO of North Valley Hospital in Whitefish, Montana
To register for the event, please visit
http://www.gehealthcare.com/usen/mr/communityhospitals/communityhospital
dayregister.html
For more information on the event and GE Healthcare's MR business,
please visit:
http://www.gehealthcare.com/usen/mr/communityhospitals/communityhospital
day.html
Date: April 22-23, 2008
Time: Begins at noon on the 22nd and ends at 2 p.m. on the 23rd
Location: GE Healthcare Institute
N16 W22419 Watertown Rd.
Waukesha, WI 53186
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat, and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest.
GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases, and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection, and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving
healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries.
During the seminar, GE Healthcare's president and CEO, Joe Hogan, and leaders from various hospitals and medical centers around the country will join to discuss the clinical benefits of MR technology, industry trends and advanced applications that can help physicians diagnose a wide range of diseases within a community hospital.
"As leaders in the MR industry, GE Healthcare is committed to delivering the best technology and services to our customers worldwide," said Hogan. "The primary objective of this event is to further the dialogue between existing users of MR technology and those interested in implementing the technology in their facilities. It will be a great way for hospital administrators to network with colleagues sharing similar needs for technology and discuss the best ways to provide quality patient care."
The following individuals will be presenting at the workshop of their experiences with MR technology:
-Jeanie Gentry, VP of Allied Services at St. John's Lutheran
Hospital in Libby, Montana
-Pat Dailey, Director of Radiology at Saunders Medical Center in
Wahoo, Nebraska
-Carolyn Messner, DSW, MSW, LCSW-R, BCD, Director of Education &
Training, CancerCare
-Michael Silver, Vice President, Sg2
-Craig Aasved, CEO of North Valley Hospital in Whitefish, Montana
To register for the event, please visit
http://www.gehealthcare.com/usen/mr/communityhospitals/communityhospital
dayregister.html
For more information on the event and GE Healthcare's MR business,
please visit:
http://www.gehealthcare.com/usen/mr/communityhospitals/communityhospital
day.html
Date: April 22-23, 2008
Time: Begins at noon on the 22nd and ends at 2 p.m. on the 23rd
Location: GE Healthcare Institute
N16 W22419 Watertown Rd.
Waukesha, WI 53186
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat, and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest.
GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases, and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection, and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving
healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries.
