GE Healthcare to invest in enhanced training for over two million health professionals globally by 2020
July 29 2015 - 5:00AM
Business Wire
- New training and education solutions
expected to benefit more than 300 million patients worldwide
- Investing over $1B to develop and
deliver localized commercial offerings for the healthcare sector,
including a new class of technology-enabled training solutions
- Targeting optimized efficiency, patient
outcomes and analytics in developed regions; enabling growing
healthcare workforce in emerging economies
In developed countries like the U.S., Europe and parts of Asia,
healthcare leaders are trying to optimize efficiency, systems
integration, data analytics and achieve greater productivity. In
emerging economies, enabling access to affordable, basic primary
care is often the most pressing concern. Healthcare systems around
the world face a wide range of difficult challenges. All could
benefit from training and education solutions focused specifically
on their particular needs.
To help address this issue, GE Healthcare today announced a plan
to invest more than $1 billion over five years in the development
of its educational offerings to reach more than two million
healthcare professionals worldwide by 2020, helping them improve
healthcare from within through enhanced training programs and
solutions for physicians, radiologists, technologists, midwives,
nurses, biomedical engineers and beyond. Solutions will be geared
to meet local needs and will include new clinical, product
application, technical and leadership training and education.
“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 & 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.”
A $1 Billion Investment in Transformational Change
As part of this training commitment, GE Healthcare will continue
to work with healthcare providers to build strategic programs that
may also include technology, finance and consultancy services to
help improve healthcare delivery and drive transformational change
in the industry.
“Our focus is to develop meaningful, relevant education
solutions that will help healthcare professionals create long-term
value and positive measurable impact. 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,” said Mario Lois, General Manager, Global
Education Services at GE Healthcare.
GE Healthcare will provide on-the-ground, online and remote
training mostly as part of a commercial partnership with customers
to help optimize health providers’ skills for real life clinical
situations. 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
its new education solutions to upskill healthcare professionals
worldwide and drive further growth in the industry.
Building on Success Across Markets
This program builds on GE Healthcare’s existing global training
initiatives, including:
- Skill India Initiative, developed by GE
Healthcare, brings together healthcare and education experts to
train and educate more than 100,000 new and existing healthcare
professionals in India over the next five years.
- GE Foundation has worked alongside
local Ministries of Health for more than a decade through its
Developing Health Globally initiative.
In parallel, to address some of the most critical health challenges
in East Africa, GE recently announced a $14.7
million commitment for skills development and capacity
building through GE Healthcare’s first-ever healthcare skills
advancement center in Kenya and other GE Foundation training
initiatives.
- A new $100 million commitment was
announced in February 2015 for the development and delivery of
localized education and training offerings to help address health
challenges in Africa, Turkey, the Middle East and Russia and CIS by
2018. This commitment builds on the opening of the Healthcare
Skills and Training Institute in 2013, launched in partnership with
King Fahad Medical City in Saudi Arabia, the first GE Healthcare
training center to be located at a customer site, which has trained
over 6,000 healthcare professionals to date.
- GE Healthcare, working with the Chinese
Medical Doctors Association (CMDA), has trained more than 6,500
rural doctors in China since 2011 through 36 sessions, featuring
professors as guest lecturers from influential Level 3 hospitals
across China.
- In collaboration with Senai (National
Service for Industrial Training), GE Healthcare has invested $3.5
million since 2012 to develop technical and clinical hands-on
courses for healthcare providers in Brazil.
- Early results from GE Healthcare’s new
approaches in Europe show more than a 300% increase in remote
expert training sessions, better addressing health professionals’
needs for continuous training and on-demand expert clinical
application support.
- For more than five decades, GE’s
Leadership Centre in Crotonville, New York, has been the epicenter
for GE’s world-renowned training programs for transformational
thinking in areas such as leadership development, change
management, organizational culture and innovation.
Taking Patient Care To A Whole New Level, Worldwide
GE Healthcare is developing new education solutions around two
critical goals – greater access and measurable outcomes. For
example, there are ongoing global pilots of a new class of
remotely-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.
GE Healthcare is also working on maximizing the quality and
measurable impact of its new training solutions. Some of these new
outcome-based education offerings leverage data and analytics to
better identify training needs and translate them into customized
training plans, with the ability to measure “before and after”
impact on key metrics, such as reduction on radiation dose or
patient throughput.
“Healthcare providers continue to experience increased patient
volumes and decreased time for training. And it’s clear to us that
the skills of healthcare professionals using medical equipment are
at least as impactful on the resulting outcomes, as the quality of
the product itself. Healthcare providers will be able to embrace
new GE education solutions, to better train their staff, optimize
equipment use, and ultimately improve patient care,” concluded
Lois.
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and
services to meet the demand for increased access, enhanced quality
and more affordable healthcare around the world. GE (NYSE: GE)
works on things that matter - great people and technologies taking
on tough challenges. From medical imaging, software & IT,
patient monitoring and diagnostics to drug discovery,
biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies and performance
improvement solutions, GE Healthcare helps medical professionals
deliver great healthcare to their patients. For more information
visit our website www.gehealthcare.com.
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