From the July 2022 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine


The study also found that 95% of patients would recommend the exam, which doesn’t require compression and takes about three minutes per breast.

Facilities can purchase the system outright, and the company also has an option that requires no money up front, with the facility paying per scan and using existing reading rooms and monitors.


“Maybe they didn't know last year that this was coming, and didn't budget for this, so now we've given them a really easy way to adopt it,” Forchette said. “We've made this as flexible as you can possibly make it because we don't want anything to stand in the way of this serving the unmet needs of women.”

GE Healthcare
St. Luke's University Health Network in Pennsylvania recently became the first U.S. facility to adopt GE Healthcare’s One-Stop Clinic rapid diagnostic breast cancer center model. There are also new sites in Colombia, Egypt and France.

GE's One-Stop Clinic breast care model originated at the Gustave Roussy Cancer Center in France. It’s designed to provide patients with a tightly coordinated journey from the initial appointment through diagnosis and treatment plan, in one location and with one team, in order to save time and speed up breast cancer diagnosis and treatment planning.

Since piloting the program in 2021, St. Luke’s has been able to reduce the time from screening to diagnosis and treatment to 36 hours or fewer for most patients, according to the company.

“We know that today, on average in the U.S., it takes women 21 days to get a result back from a biopsy,” said Celeste Slade, clinical solutions leader at GE Healthcare. “That is followed by weeks waiting to get a treatment plan. We can do better. And we know the science tells us that we can. For every 60 days that we delay treatment plans, cancer can advance for our patients, which limits our ability to give better clinical outcomes for those women. The One-Stop clinic model is all about redefining the patient's experience by reducing the time from screening to precise diagnosis and treatment plan, making a difference for the early detection of breast cancer and getting to answers and ‘what’s next’ faster.”

In Colombia, the One-Stop Clinic has reduced the time to treatment by roughly 93%.

In September 2021, GE Healthcare and Gustave Roussy also announced an initiative, backed by the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population, that aims to accelerate early detection and treatment planning of breast cancer through the creation of rapid breast cancer diagnosis clinics in Egypt.

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