Signify Premium Insight: GE Healthcare Looks to Solve Problems at Home

Offering patients the ability to conduct medical imaging in the home has numerous upsides, from straightforward benefits such as better provision in remote areas, patients not having to travel, the reduction in no-shows for appointments, to advantages that are more substantive for providers such as reducing in-hospital appointments, and helping to reduce the number of false alarm visits to the ER during pregnancy, saving the hospital money. These opportunities have been understood for some time, but so too have the problems barring the technology’s uptake.