More evidence that healthcare IT will provide increasing job
opportunities in the coming years for IT professionals comes from GE chief executive officer Jeffrey Immelt (left). In a
conference call with analysts this week, Immelt discusses how increased collaboration with healthcare institutions will help grow the company’s healthcare IT business that includes high-tech diagnostic imaging, treatment and other wares:
”The trick is in the United States to position our $1.8 billion healthcare information technology business, which I think through some of the collaborations, we're forming with Mayo Clinic, Intermountain Health people like that is very well positioned now in the electronic health record to position this business to really grow rapidly as the government sets new standards and gives hospitals some capability to invest in this activity. … The story is going to be about productivity and efficiency.”
And, among those investments will be IT know-how. How else to connect all these healthcare devices with electronic medical record systems?
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