GE Healthcare China CEO Zhang Yihao Launches Edison Intelligence Platform to Build a Digital Health Ecosystem

Securities Times reporter Zhu Kai

Figure: Zhang Yihao, President and CEO of GE Healthcare China

At the GE Healthcare Digital Ecosystem Forum held in Shanghai on September 21, GE Healthcare announced the launch of the Edison Intelligence Platform (Edison Platform) in China. Meanwhile, GE Healthcare also announced the signing of strategic cooperation memoranda with five local software development enterprises—Shukun Technology, Yizhun Intelligent Medical Technology, Yitu Technology, Tuma Shenwei, and Ande Medical Intelligence—to jointly develop digital healthcare applications based on the Edison Platform.

Edison is a digital health intelligence platform built by GE Healthcare, designed to help improve efficiency, increase patient throughput, and enhance healthcare accessibility. Reporters learned at the forum that the platform employs a comprehensive suite of specialized medical development modules, enabling GE developers and its strategic partners to rapidly design, develop, manage, secure, and distribute advanced applications, services, and AI algorithms.

At the forum, Zhang Yihao, President and CEO of GE Healthcare China, pointed out that digitalization is disrupting every aspect of healthcare. GE Healthcare’s proposal of a digital ecosystem aims to build a more integrated, open, collaborative, mutually beneficial, and interconnected digital healthcare ecosystem that links upstream and downstream industries. To meet the complex and diverse demands of today’s healthcare market, relying solely on individual efforts is insufficient; it requires close collaboration among all parties within the ecosystem, leveraging complementary advantages and coordinated development to jointly develop applications for hospitals and end users, ultimately benefiting the entire industry and patients. Zhang Yihao stated that GE has always been closely aligned with China’s development, with GE’s presence evident in every major Chinese project and initiative. In the future, we will continue to take responsibility for the health of hundreds of millions of people and consistently support the advancement and implementation of the “Healthy China 2030” strategy.

In an interview with Securities Times reporter, Amit Phadnis, Global Chief Digital Innovation Officer at GE Healthcare, stated that the healthcare process generates vast amounts of data, such as diagnostic imaging, digital health records, monitoring information, and clinical research data. Typically, these data are difficult to integrate and utilize, making it challenging to generate clinical value beneficial to patients. “GE Healthcare has always been committed to addressing this issue, which is precisely why we are launching the Edison platform in China today—leveraging these digital technologies to gain timely insights into changes, truly improve patient outcomes, reduce waste and inefficiencies, optimize costs, and prevent major medical accidents,” he said.

Dai Ying, Chief Innovation Officer of GE Healthcare China, stated that the strategic cooperation agreements signed between GE Healthcare and five leading Chinese digital health development enterprises demonstrate that our strategic partners possess highly mature software products and share a solid foundation for collaboration with GE Healthcare. The Edison ecosystem, jointly built with our partners, represents a significant step in GE Healthcare’s digital transformation. We aim to leverage this platform, along with its technologies and services, to create a healthier and more efficient digital health ecosystem, thereby advancing further toward the goal of precision medicine.

According to reports, GE Healthcare is the healthcare business unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), with annual revenue reaching $19 billion. The Edison platform was officially launched in November 2018 and was previously primarily available for use by GE’s internal digital application developers and strategic partners such as NVIDIA, Intel, and the University of California, San Francisco.

Source: Securities Times

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