The effort, part of GE's "healthymagination" program, has Furyk talking about injury prevention. The two-year-old healthymagination initiative focuses on low-cost technology; healthcare IT; accessible technology; and consumer-driven healthcare.
The Fairfield, CT.-based company says that by 2015 it will have invested $3 billion in research and development to launch at least 100 innovations that will help deliver better care to more people at lower cost; put $2 billion into financing and $1 billion in technology to bring healthcare information technology to rural and underserved areas; reduce the cost of procedures that use GE technologies and services by 15%; and develop products for underserved regions worldwide.
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