GE Global Research to Develop Robotic-Enabled Intelligent System Which Could Save Patients Lives and Hospitals Millions

NISKAYUNA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imagine an intelligent system managing the surgical tool sterilization process in a hospital – ensuring safe delivery of care, enabling new levels of hospital efficiency, and delivering with surgical accuracy all of the medical devices doctors need to perform life-saving procedures. At GE Global Research, the technology development arm for the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), scientists envision such a future and will soon begin a groundbreaking project designed to leverage the power of the Industrial Internet to transform the way hospitals manage and track their thousands of surgical tools.