Frost & Sullivan highlights GE’s command centres
February 3, 2021
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Based on its recent analysis of the global healthcare command centre market, Frost & Sullivan has recognized GE Healthcare with the 2020 Global Company of the Year Award. GE Healthcare enables customers to develop virtual or physical command centres that support single departments, hospitals, health systems, and even states or regions. While competitors typically leverage their own solutions as the core of their offering, GE Healthcare works with hospitals’ existing technology solutions and source systems, integrating and analyzing data from all of them to drive greater efficiencies, as well as additional outcomes.
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