Blueprint Overview

GE Blueprint assists healthcare organizations with the information they need to proactively address key opportunities and improve the way they manage radiation across their enterprise.

A new perspective

For many years, the dose conversation has been dominated by the emergence of new innovative technologies that enable high-quality images at low doses. Clearly, technology is an important part of the industry’s progress in managing dose. However, in order to achieve consistent, broad-based performance improvement, we believe that a broader perspective is needed…a perspective that includes technology, but also takes into account the culture, people, organizational structure, practices and processes that surround it.

The GE Blueprint is designed to help healthcare providers assess performance across a broad spectrum of metrics and use that knowledge to inform a systematic program to consistently achieve improvement across the health system.  

But GE’s support doesn’t have to end with the assessment. We can help develop a customized plan to meet an organization’s objectives, and then deliver the resources, technologies, and expertise to help make it a reality. 

Assess Performance

The ability to improve a CT imaging program begins with understanding its current performance. GE can help you assess the performance of existing programs and help identify specific areas for improvement.

Radiation Management Assessment Tool

The GE Blueprint Radiation Management Assessment Tool can be used to evaluate performance and identify potential opportunities for improvement in individual facilities or across an entire healthcare system. 

Our GE Blueprint assessment focuses on three major areas: Leadership, Practices, and Technology. In those areas, we will review items, such as your culture, organizational structure, and the people that are the heart of your imaging program; the practices, protocols, and procedures you have in place; and the systems you use to provide imaging services. The goal of the assessment is to help you benchmark your health system’s efforts to reduce radiation exposure, and to help you uncover opportunities to improve your radiation management program.   

You can conduct the assessment yourself, or you can ask one of our GE Low-Dose Architects to help guide you through the process and provide insights based on their experience. 

GE Low-Dose Architects

Our multi-disciplinary team is prepared to help identify opportunities for improvement in a healthcare facility’s dose-management program. By conducting a thorough, detailed review and assessment of current dose usage and dose-management capabilities, we can help you develop and implement an ongoing plan for effective dose management.

Improve Performance

The GE Blueprint can help support your efforts to build a comprehensive radiation dose management program by offering insights and suggestions to integrate and optimize a healthcare organization’s leadership, practices, and technological resources. 

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Leadership


A radiation dose management program can only be as effective as the people who administer, oversee, and execute it. Learn more!

Practices


To realize all the potential benefits of your dose-reduction program, you may need to optimize the practices, procedures, and protocols. Learn more!

Technology


New dose-reduction technologies, combined with the vigilant use of current technologies, can help you to continually optimize dose while maintaining clinically diagnostic image quality. Learn more!

Resource Library

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Guides & Tools


Learn more about the GE Blueprint program.


Industry Resources


Learn more about radiation dose from these leading organizations.

Products & Services


Learn more about key GE products and services to support your dose management efforts.

Understanding Radiation

Getting the most from medical imaging means high-quality images and an understanding of the impact of the radiation that is often required to make those images possible.

The advent of medical imaging has given the world more precise, less invasive ways of detecting, diagnosing, and treating medical conditions. These imaging methods are a wonder not only of technology but also of the human mind, as people continually work to improve, employ and interpret this technology every day.

But with some of these imaging wonders comes uncertainty about radiation exposure. Patients and medical professionals alike want to know how much radiation various procedures involve, what the risks may be, and how to minimize personal exposure.

At GE Healthcare, we never stop working to try to maximize the benefits and clarity that medical imaging can bring. We also work to find new ways to minimize the uncertainty by seeking answers to the questions and technological challenges related to radiation exposure. Engineering our technology to minimize radiation exposure is an important part of our work, but equally important are the education and training we offer to help medical professionals and patients better understand how to manage exposure. Staying true to that commitment is how we all come to experience more clarity. And less uncertainty.

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The Basics


There was a time when the only way a physician could look inside a patient was through invasive surgery. Today physicians turn to advanced medical imaging. Learn more!

Risks and Benefits


Almost all medical procedures, including imaging procedures that use radiation, have risks associated with them. Learn more!

Safety Tips


This content is designed for healthcare professionals who work with medical radiation in imaging procedures. Learn more!

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Procedural Overviews


Medical imaging is conducted through the use of a variety of devices. Learn more!

Glossary


A glossary of dose terminology. Learn more!