GE Healthcare Digitises Indian Healthcare

GE Healthcare unveiled a new designed ‘In India, for India’ low cost IT solution - GE Centricity PACS Reach, a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) aimed at affordably digitising India’s 15,000-plus small diagnostic centres and hospitals, a market that’s traditionally lower in clinical image volume but is growing at a tremendous pace in India’s Tier-II and Tier-III cities. Centricity PACS Reach endeavors to bring this market faster image access, greater efficiency & lower operational costs.

“IT delivers information to the heart of healthcare institutions and to the fingertips of providers and patients seamlessly, anywhere, anytime,” said Vishal Wanchoo, President & CEO of GE Healthcare IT. “We’re not strangers here. We understand the challenges Indian healthcare is facing between disparate clinics, sparse information sharing, bandwidth challenges and the paperwork barrier. We are committed to begin changing this through solutions that we will develop in India, for India, to help expand healthcare’s reach to more people.”

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“IT is the backbone of any good healthcare system,” said V Raja, president & CEO, GE Healthcare South Asia. “India, unfortunately, lags behind in this sector though the country is known for its broad-based IT strengths. Just as it has helped grow other businesses in India, IT can help bring affordable healthcare to millions and help the industry grow.”

To reduce the adverse social & economic impact of rapid growth in incidence of lifestyle related disease, it is imperative that medical technologies drive early & affordable diagnosis and therefore earlier treatment. While GE Healthcare continues to drive down cost on diagnostic equipment through our ‘In India, for India’ approach, the company strongly believes that Healthcare IT will form an integral link, connecting these systems to radiologists & clinicians while driving greater access, improved efficiency and productivity.

“India has a huge advantage today,” said Raja, “We have the chance to adopt IT as we are building our healthcare system and not farther on, as we’ve seen in some developed economies. IT adoption now can bring healthcare costs down, increase quality of diagnosis consistently and improve healthcare reach drastically. We are extremely proud to bring this low-cost Centricity Reach solution and believe its potential to spread affordable healthcare delivery across India will be realised almost immediately.”