GE Healthcare and MediView XR, a medical technology company that leverages augmented reality, announced their collaboration to co-develop the OmnifyXR interventional suite system. It will combine medical imaging and mixed reality solutions to help doctors and their healthcare teams.
Collaboration will combine GE’s imaging technologies with MediView’s augmented reality and surgical navigation expertise to enable physicians to evaluate multiple 3D live imaging holographic displays using Microsoft’s HoloLens technology .
The goal is to help physicians better assess a patient’s anatomy, make more informed clinical decisions, and enable remote collaboration between care teams in different locations.
OmnifyXR will be designed and manufactured by MediView XR and will initially launch in the United States
“We are excited to advance our strategic collaboration with GE Healthcare by co-developing and creating the interventional suite of the future – a suite designed to improve usability, with natural interactions for optimized workflow and easier collaboration of care teams.
“The physician is empowered to simultaneously interface with virtual monitors, holographic 3D anatomy, and collaborate remotely with colleagues around the world,” said Mina Fahim, president and CEO of MediView, in a statement.
THE GREAT TREND
In 2021, GE announced plans to spin off of its health division in early 2023 to separate the business into three public companies, one of which was GE Healthcare.
In October, the company published details on its progress in splitting the business, noting its intention to organize GE Healthcare into four segments: imaging, patient care solutions (which will include monitoring and digital tools), pharmaceutical diagnostics and ultrasound.
GE Healthcare acquires surgical visualization company BK Medical for $1.45 billion in 2021. Previously, he bought both Zionexaa developer of in vivo biomarkers to guide cancer treatment, and a Swedish medical X-ray imaging start-up Prismatic sensors.
In October, the healthcare giant announced its partnership with CMA Health to offer remote patient monitoring technology to patients after discharge from hospital.