GE Healthcare to Enhance Training for Health Professionals Worldwide

GE Healthcare (GE; Little Chalfont, United Kingdom) will invest more than USD one billion over the next five years on the development of educational offerings.

The company, which expects to reach more than two million healthcare professionals worldwide by 2020, will develop and deliver localized commercial offerings for the healthcare sector, helping them to improve healthcare from within through enhanced training programs and solutions for physicians, radiologists, technologists, midwives, nurses, biomedical engineers and beyond. The solutions offered will be geared to meet local needs and will include clinical, product application, technical, and leadership training and education.

The new education solutions are being developed around two critical goals – greater access and measurable outcomes. For example, there are ongoing global pilot programs of a new class of remote-controlled robotic telepresence training solutions that will enable any GE expert or clinical partner to deliver highly effective, interactive, hands-on training sessions for practically any device and any user in a given hospital, regardless of the expert trainer’s location. These new solutions hope to provide an experience and effectiveness that’s remarkably close to the trainer being physically there, working with them.

Other examples of implementation could include peer-to-peer training provided by key opinion leaders among customers; virtual video conference training; clinical product training by certified clinical applications specialists; biomedical training supervised by technical instructors; and leadership training managed by certified GE professionals and consultants. GE Healthcare expects the new training and education solutions will enable the growing healthcare workforce in emerging economies to benefit more than 300 million patients worldwide.

“Challenges around localized capacity building, training, and innovation are consistent themes for many healthcare systems and Ministries of Health around the world,” said John Flannery, President and CEO of GE Healthcare. “We will continue to work closely with local governments, institutions, and customers to address some of their most important concerns. In some countries, this will mean training midwives to use new ultrasound or portable diagnostic equipment. In others, it will include supporting multi-hospital networks to enhance their clinical and operational outcomes.”

“Our focus is to develop meaningful, relevant education solutions that will help healthcare professionals create long-term value and positive measurable impact,” said Mario Lois, general manager of global education services at GE Healthcare. “By combining our heritage in medical technology, healthcare IT, software and life sciences, we can provide enhanced learning, insights and best practices that can make a real difference.”

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