Published: January 03, 2011
GE and Intel's Telehealth and Independent Living Company is Operational Today
FAIRFIELD, Conn. & SANTA CLARA, Calif. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - GE (NYSE:GE) and Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) announced that Intel-GE
Care Innovations LLC ("Care Innovations") is the name of their
healthcare joint venture and that the company is operational starting
today. Care Innovations will develop technologies that support healthy,
independent living at home and in senior housing communities. The
executive leadership team and board of managers are now in place to
support the new company's transition and future growth.
The formation of Care Innovations follows the success of the healthcare
alliance between Intel and GE, announced April 2009. Care Innovations,
which combines assets and the expert teams and operations of both GE
Healthcare's Home Health division and Intel's Digital Health Group, has
received final regulatory clearances and is now fully operational. The
jointly owned company's focus is to help address some of the largest
issues facing society today, including the aging population, the growing
number of people with chronic conditions, and increasing healthcare
costs. The market segments for telehealth and home health monitoring are
predicted to grow to an estimated $7.7 billion by 2012[1].
"Our vision as we launch this exciting new company is for Care
Innovations to positively affect millions of people by providing
innovative products and services that will enable new models of care,"
said Louis Burns, CEO of Care Innovations. "Our passionate leadership
team and board of managers will help drive the business strategy
necessary to improve quality of care and patient empowerment while
helping reduce healthcare costs through new technologies."
Burns is joined by an experienced senior leadership team with a breadth
of knowledge in healthcare, business strategy, sales and marketing, and
product development in the company's core focus areas: disease
management, independent living and assistive technologies. The
leadership team includes:
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Louis J. Burns, CEO
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Douglas F. Busch, Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
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Lauren Salata, Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief
Compliance Officer
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Michael Bassett, General Manager of Assistive Technologies
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Becky Davis, Director of Corporate Marketing
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Eric Dishman, Director of Health Policy
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Aaron Duerksen, General Manager of Disease Management
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Bonnie Norman, Director of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs
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James Pursley, General Manager of Independent Living
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Randall Swanson, Vice President, Business Operations
In addition to Burns, GE and Intel have also appointed four board
members to Care Innovations to represent the interests of the parent
companies. Senior Vice President of GE and President and CEO of GE
Healthcare Systems, Omar Ishrak, is chairman of the board for the
company. GE has also appointed Michael Jones, executive vice president
of Business Development for GE International, as a board member. Intel
board members include Robert Crooke, corporate vice president and
general manager of Intel's Atom and System-on-a-Chip Development Group
(ASDG); and Patricia Murray, senior vice president and director of human
resources.
Care Innovations markets remote patient monitoring, independent living
concepts and assistive technologies, such as the Intel Health Guide,
Intel Reader and GE QuietCare. The company is also continuing to
develop healthcare IT innovations which will help enable healthcare
providers to drive toward lower costs and a higher quality of life for
patients worldwide.
Visit www.careinnovations.com
for more information.
[1] Combined data for United States and Europe. Data Monitor
reports Telehealth spending North America and Telehealth spending 2007
â2012
About GE Healthcare:
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and
services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our broad expertise
in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics,
patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical
manufacturing technologies, performance improvement and performance
solutions services help our customers to deliver better care to more
people around the world at a lower cost. In addition, we partner with
healthcare leaders, striving to leverage the global policy change
necessary to implement a successful shift to sustainable healthcare
systems.
Our "healthymagination" vision for the future invites the world to join
us on our journey as we continuously develop innovations focused on
reducing costs, increasing access and improving quality around the
world. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a unit of
General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employees
are committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in
more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit
our website at www.gehealthcare.com/quietcare.
For our latest news, please visit http://newsroom.gehealthcare.com
About Intel
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation. The
company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the
foundation for the world's computing devices. Additional information
about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom
and blogs.intel.com.
To learn more about Intel in health care, visit www.intel.com/healthcare.

Burson-Marsteller for Care Innovations
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