Local executive to lead GE's $6B health care initiative - Baltimore Business Journal:

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Barber was named head of "healthymagination," a GE prograjm focused on improving health care for more peoples atreduced cost, by GE chairman and CEO Jeffrey Barber, 48, is a 27-year veteran of GE and since 2005 has served as chief technology officee for GE Healthcare. He joined GE in 1982 and has held a varietyg of roles of increasing responsibilitty withinGE Healthcare. In 2001, Barberr was general manager forComponents Engineering, and from 2002 to 2005 he was the generapl manager for Global Components Operations for GE which has significant operations in Milwaukee, Wauwatosa and Barber was a 1994 winner of The Businesa Journal's Forty Under 40 award, which recognizes young Milwaukee-area executives making a difference in thei professions and community.
"Over the last four Mike has led all aspects of product developmen t for advanced healthcare technologies," Immelr said. "Mike knows how our technology canhelp patients, he knows what clinics and hospitals need to improvd care and cut costs and he knows how to lead With his deep experience in engineering and technology and his stronfg operations and process-driven expertise, Mike is the righrt leader to lead healthymagination and to grow our health care partnershipsx globally." that can be offered in rurapl and underserved regions of the world, where quality healtbh care can be difficult to obtain.
It is also designed to reducw the company's own health care costs for employees and expansd profitability for the GEHealthcare Locally, GE Healthcare, which produces medical imaging equipmentg and medical information technology products from its Milwaukee-area will spend $3 billion by 2015 to developl at least 100 new products designeds to lower costs, improve access and improves quality of care by 15