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Barbara Kram, Editor | November 18, 2008
Reinaldo Garcia, President and CEO at GE Healthcare International, added, "The global burden of cancer continues to increase. We are pleased to support UPMC's worthy initiative and share its vision of improving access to high-quality healthcare delivery. Our aim is to bring quality care to developing and developed regions of the world, enabling the transformation of healthcare delivery from being reactive - when diseases are diagnosed late and could be more difficult to treat, to a proactive 'Early Health' model of care - possibly preventing disease before it happens, with earlier diagnosis and accurate follow-up."
UPMC's collaboration with GE is part of the health system's larger strategy of commercializing its medical, technology and management expertise for the benefit of patients. The goal of these ventures is to create new revenue to support UPMC's mission of providing excellent patient care and research. Recently in June 2008, the two organizations announced the creation of Omnyx LLC, a jointly owned company that is developing and marketing digital pathology systems that promise to revolutionize diagnostic work previously done through microscopes and glass slides.
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About UPMC
UPMC is an integrated global health enterprise headquartered in Pittsburgh and one of the leading nonprofit health systems in the United States. As western Pennsylvania's largest employer, with 50,000 employees and $7 billion in revenue, UPMC is transforming the economy of the region into one based on medicine, research and technology. By integrating 20 hospitals, 400 doctors' offices and outpatient sites, long-term care facilities and a major insurance plan, UPMC has advanced the quality and efficiency of health care and developed internationally renowned programs in transplantation, cancer, neurosurgery, psychiatry, orthopaedics and sports medicine, among others. UPMC is commercializing its medical and technological expertise by nurturing new companies, developing strategic business relationships with some of the world's leading multinational corporations and expanding into international markets, including Italy, Ireland, the United Kingdom and Qatar. For more information about UPMC, visit our website at www.upmc.com.
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. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com.
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