Product Summary

A GE Digital X-Ray room is designed to replace two GE analog X-Ray rooms, saving energy and space, and avoiding water and chemical use for film processing, while maintaining the same imaging volume.

Environmental Benefits

A GE Digital X-Ray system eliminates the need for water in film processing. For example, a GE Digital X-Ray system can produce the same imaging volume as two GE analog X-Ray systems while saving over 156,000 gallons (590,000 L) of water per year.

Operating Benefits

GE’s Digital X-Ray systems can increase productivity over analog X-Ray systems. For example, a hospital in the Central South found that one GE Digital X-Ray system provides the same throughout as the two analog systems it replaced, while saving over $90,000 in productivity, material, and processing costs annually.

Product Summary

GE Healthcare’s +PLUSPAK™ polymer bottle for contrast media offers significant advantages over traditional glass packaging, including decreased cost of waste disposal, reduced storage, and improved workplace safety for healthcare workers who administer contrast media to patients. +PLUSPAK™ polymer bottle achieves these benefits through its patented design and pharmaceutical grade polypropylene composition, which result in smaller, lighter, and safer packaging than glass.

Environmental Benefits

By switching from glass packaging to GE Healthcare's +PLUSPAK™ polymer bottle, a radiology department can reduce its waste disposal costs. For example, a radiology department that purchases over 11,700 bottles of contrast media per year can realize savings of more than 75%, or $600 in bottle disposal costs annually, by switching to GE Healthcare's +PLUSPAK™ polymer bottle.

Operating Benefits

By using the innovative GE Healthcare +PLUSPAK™ polymer bottle, a radiology department can reduce the weight of its contrast media red bag waste by more than 75%. For example, a radiology department that purchases over 11,700 bottles of contrast media per year can reduce annual contrast media red bag waste by 3,500 pounds by using GE Healthcare's +PLUSPAK™ polymer bottle instead of comparable glass packaging.

Product Summary

By replacing analog film and film processing with digital images, the GE digital mammography platform offers significant advantages over traditional analog mammography including improved throughput, less waste and reduced energy, water and chemicals use

Environmental Benefits

A GE Digital mammography system eliminates the need for water in film processing used by analog mammography systems. Replacing a GE analog mammography system that processes 27,400 films per year with a GE digital mammography system can save up to 8,000 gallons (31,000 L) of water annually.

Operating Benefits

By allowing rapid image acquisition and display, GE's digital mammography systems improve patient throughput by 55 percent compared to GE's film-based mammography systems

Product Summary

GE’s Optima CT660 Series scanner of Computed Tomography (CT) systems is designed to reduce electricity consumption and associated CO2 emissions on the electric grid, calibration time, and siting requirements compared to prior GE technology, while maintaining image quality.

Environmental Benefits

With its Energy Saving Mode activated, GE's Optima CT660 Series scanner is designed to reduce electricity consumption for operation and ambient cooling by more than 33,000kWh per machine annually, a savings of more than 60% compared to prior GE technology. This can avoid 20 metric tons of CO2 emissions on the U.S. grid per year, equivalent to the annual CO2 emissions of 4 cars on U.S. roads

Operating Benefits

With its Energy Saving Mode activated, GE's Optima CT660 Series scanner is designed to reduce electricity consumption for operation and ambient cooling by more than 33,000kWh per machine annually, a savings of more than 60% compared to prior GE technology. For a hospital in the US, this could yield annual savings of over $3,300 per CT system, assuming an electricity price of $0.10/kWh.

Product Summary

By employing efficient gradient and electronics design as well as innovative water-cooling technology, the High Efficiency Family of MR Systems from GE is among the most energy efficient 1.5T MR systems, using about 34% less energy than our previous generation systems.

Environmental Benefits

Compared to our previous generation systems, a product in the High Efficiency Family of MR Systems from GE reduces annual electricity usage by about 60,000 kWh under normal operating conditions, equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of about 5 US households. This avoids the emission of 35 metric tons of CO2 on the US grid, equivalent to the annual emissions of about 7 cars on US roads.

Operating Benefits

Compared to our previous generation systems, the High Efficiency Family of MR Systems from GE reduces annual electricity use by about 60,000 kWh, which can save over approximately $5,800 per year in the US under normal operating conditions, at an electricity rate of $0.10/kWh.

Product Summary

GE Healthcare’s High Efficiency Voluson Compact Series ultrasound imaging platforms reduce energy and paper consumption, enhance image acquisition and quality, and improve productivity by reducing scan time

Environmental Benefits

GE Healthcare's Voluson Compact ultrasound systems are among the most energy efficient in the industry. Due to decreased scan time and lower power consumption, a Voluson Compact consumes 1,300 kWh less electricity per year than compared to prior GE console-based technology for the same number of scans, a savings of 87%. GE Healthcare's High Efficiency Voluson DICOM digital imaging feature enables the elimination of printouts for archival purposes.

A hospital using the Voluson Compact can reduce archival printouts by 50% per year versus analog technology. This yields an annual reduction in ultrasound paper usage of 28 kg (62 lb) per machine per year compared to prior GE console-based technology.

Alternatively, if a hospital were to leverage the Voluson Compact Series' decreased scan time to image as many as 2 additional patients per 10-hour day of operation, the hospital would avoid an increase in paper usage, assuming a 50% reduction in archival printouts per patient. (In some regions, DICOM is offered as an option rather than a standard feature.)

Operating Benefits

GE Healthcare's High Efficiency Voluson Series ultrasound imaging platforms enhance image acquisition and quality while improving productivity through reduced scan time. The Voluson Compact Series reduces scan time 12% compared to prior GE console-based technology, which could enable 2 additional patients to be scanned per 10-hour day of operation.

In addition, GE's High Efficiency Voluson DICOM digital imaging feature enables the elimination of printouts for archival purposes. Assuming the same imaging volume, a hospital using the Voluson Compact reduces archival printouts by 50% per year versus analog technology. This would yield an annual reduction in ultrasound paper usage of 28 kg (62 lb) per machine, saving more than $15,000 per year compared to prior GE console-based technology.

Alternatively, if a hospital were to leverage the Voluson Compact Series' decreased scan time to image as many as 2 additional patients per 10-hour day of operation, the hospital would still save more than $9,000 in paper costs, assuming a 50% reduction in archival printouts per patient. 

Product Summary

GE Healthcare’s Voluson E- and S-Series ultrasound imaging platforms reduce energy and paper consumption, enhance image acquisition and quality, and improve productivity by reducing scan time.

Environmental Benefits

GE Healthcare's Voluson E- and S-Series ultrasound imaging platforms are among the most energy efficient in the industry. Due to decreased scan time and lower power consumption, a Voluson E8 consumes 580 kWh less electricity per year than prior GE console-based technology for the same number of scans, a savings of 38%. Similarly, a Voluson S8 consumes 1,000 kWh less electricity per year than prior GE console-based technology for the same number of scans, a savings of 67%.

Operating Benefits

GE Healthcare's Voluson E- and S-Series ultrasound imaging platforms enhance image acquisition and quality while improving productivity through reduced scan time. The Voluson E- and S-Series reduce scan time 25% compared to prior GE console-based technology, enabling 5 additional patients to be scanned per 10-hour day of operation.

In addition, the Voluson E- and S-Series' DICOM digital imaging feature enables the elimination of printouts for archival purposes. Assuming the same imaging volume, a hospital using the Voluson E- or S-Series reduces archival printouts by 50% per year versus analog technology. This would yield an annual reduction in ultrasound paper usage of 28 kg (62 lb) per machine, saving more than $15,000 per year compared to prior GE console-based technology.

Alternatively, if a hospital were to leverage the Voluson E- or S-Series' decreased scan time to image as many as 5 additional patients per 10-hour day of operation, the hospital would avoid an increase in paper usage, assuming a 50% reduction in archival printouts per patient. (In some regions, DICOM is offered as an option rather than a standard feature.) 

Product Summary

GE’s WAVE Bioreactor system – used for vaccine and other biotherapeutics production – enables cell culturing without requiring cleaning or steam sterilization because it uses disposable bags rather than large stainless steel tanks. This reduces water and energy consumption – and staff time requirements – compared to the stainless steel bioreactor it replaces.

Environmental Benefits

GE's WAVE Bioreactor system eliminates the need for ultra-purified water used to sterilize conventional stainless steel bioreactors. For example, a production facility that replaces a stainless steel bioreactor with a GE 500 liter WAVE bioreactor system with equivalent output can reduce water consumption by over 66,000 liters per year, equivalent to approximately 3 tanker trucks of ultra-purified water.

Operating Benefits

By eliminating "clean-in-place" and other sterilization activities required by stainless steel bioreactors, GE's WAVE Bioreactor system can reduce turnaround time by more than 1,300 hours per year, or 92% compared to a stainless steel bioreactor with equivalent output.