- St Luke’s $30 million investment in 21 GE HealthCare CT systems
makes it one of the health system’s largest investments of its
kind
- Continuous Artificial Intelligence (AI) and software updates
will be provided by GE HealthCare’s Smart Subscription, a service
to help extend the life of the CT Fleet
GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC), a leading medical technology
innovator, announced today its largest ever CT deal in the United
States – a $30 million order by St. Luke’s University Health
Network, a nationally recognized nonprofit healthcare network, to
install 21 of GE HealthCare’s innovative CT systems, powered by
Artificial Intelligence (AI), across their system. This order
builds upon the more than 30-year relationship between the two
organizations.
The new scanners will include a comprehensive suite of clinical
applications, and the latest AI, through GE HealthCare’s Smart
Subscription that seamlessly connects and integrates with St.
Luke’s existing network. As a result, GE HealthCare will provide
St. Luke’s with access to the latest CT technologies and solutions,
helping to extend the life of these devices and making it a more
consistent experience for patients.
“GE HealthCare is honored to partner with St. Luke’s to provide
cutting-edge CT technology across their network coupled with
regular software upgrades and updates to keep their fleet of CT
systems up to date,” said Catherine Estrampes, President & CEO,
US & Canada, GE HealthCare. “These updates will enable greater
standardized care for their patients using the latest capabilities
available without having to invest in additional new equipment to
keep pace with the latest technology.”
St. Luke’s patients scanned on this new CT technology will
benefit from faster scansi and sharper imagesii, a potential
reduction in radiation dose from advancements in technologyiii, the
capacity to better detect lesions or tissue abnormalities and to
map vascular structures, and the ability to capture fine detail in
the head and neck, which is critical in stroke diagnosisiv. These
scanners also are expected to be helpful within St. Luke’s
pediatric patient population, trauma cases, and especially in
advanced cardiac exams by using GE HealthCare’s SnapShot Freeze
technology. That technology, combined with fast rotation speed and
wide coverage provided by the GE HealthCare scanners, provides the
ability to image the heart with any heart rate in just one beat,
which reduces the motion artifacts significantly, thus decreasing
the likelihood for additional scanning.
“We can now offer the most advanced CT technology to all of the
communities we serve. This provides our patients with access to
this technology no matter where they go for their St. Luke’s care,”
according to Dr. Hal L. Folander, Senior VP, Chief Medical Strategy
Officer, Network Chairman, Department of Radiology at St. Luke’s.
“This investment also allows for a faster, more informed and
accurate diagnosis, with less inconvenience to patients.”
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About St. Luke’s University Health Network
Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is
a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network of more than
18,000 employees providing services at 14 campuses and 300+
outpatient sites. With annual net revenue of $3.2 billion, the
Network’s service area includes 11 counties in two states: Lehigh,
Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe, Schuylkill
and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon
counties in New Jersey. St. Luke’s hospitals operate the biggest
network of trauma centers in Pennsylvania.
Dedicated to advancing medical education, St. Luke’s is the
preeminent teaching hospital in central-eastern Pennsylvania. In
partnership with Temple University, the Network established the
Lehigh Valley’s first and only four-year medical school campus. It
also operates the nation’s longest continuously operating School of
Nursing, established in 1884, and 45 fully accredited graduate
medical educational programs with more than 400 residents and
fellows. In 2022, St. Luke’s, a member of the Children’s Hospital
Association, opened the Lehigh Valley’s first and only
free-standing facility dedicated entirely to kids.
SLUHN is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn
Medicare’s five-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency
and patient satisfaction. It is both a Leapfrog Group and
Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World’s Best Hospital. The
Network’s flagship University Hospital has earned the 100 Top Major
Teaching Hospital designation from Fortune/Merative 10 times total
and eight years in a row, including in 2022 when it was identified
as THE #2 TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY. In 2021, St. Luke’s was
identified as one of the 15 Top Health Systems nationally.
Utilizing the Epic electronic medical record (EMR) system for both
inpatient and outpatient services, the Network is a multi-year
recipient of the Most Wired award recognizing the breadth of the
SLUHN’s information technology applications such as telehealth,
online scheduling and online pricing information. The Network is
also recognized as one of the state’s lowest cost providers.
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i 19.5msec effective temporal resolution is achieved by a 6x
improvement of motion-blur reduction while maintaining high spatial
resolution as demonstrated in cardiac phantom testing. The
reduction in motion artifacts at speed of .23s/rotation is
comparable to a 0.039 equivalent gantry rotation speed with
effective temporal resolution of 19.5 msec, as demonstrated in
mechanical and mathematical phantom testing.
ii As demonstrated in a clinical evolution consisting of 60
cases and 9 physicians, where each case was reconstructed with both
DLIR and ASiR-V and evaluated by 3 of the physicians. In 100% of
the reads, DLIR's image sharpness was rated the same as or better
than ASiR-V's. In 91% of the reads, DLIR's noise texture was rated
better than ASiR-V's. This rating was based on each individual
reader's preference.
iii In clinical practice, the use of ASiR may reduce CT patient
dose depending on the clinical task, patient size, anatomical
location and clinical practice. A consultation with a radiologist
and a physicist should be made to determine the appropriate dose to
obtain diagnostic image quality for the particular clinical
task.
iv Thibault et al. “TrueFidelity™ for Gemstone™ Spectral
Imaging: A new generation of spectral imaging powered by deep
learning.” GE HealthCare. May 2022.
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