Dive Brief:
- GE Healthcare has launched a new cloud-based service designed to streamline the process of clinical collaboration on images.
- The new tool, Centricity 360, offers on-demand medical imaging apps that can be used by distributed care teams to share data and images.
- Because the apps will be based on GE Healthcare's cloud services platform, users will not need to make an upfront investment to use the service.
Dive Insight:
What's interesting about this announcement is the way GE Healthcare describes its end users, which include clinicians, integrated delivery networks and (wait for it) patients. I'm not sure what use patients could make of discussion around images documenting their condition, but the cloud could at least make it easier for patients to get images from one doctor to another. In other words, if GE Healthcare can get decent market penetration, this might actually help patients too.