AFSMI Welcomes GE Healthcare to Its Membership Community.Industry Leader Joins Burgeoning Medical Device Segment within AFSMI (Association For Services Management International, Fort Myers, FL, www.afsmi.org) A membership organization dedicated to the advancement of executives and managers in the high-tech services and support industry. SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- The Association for Services Management International (AFSMI), the largest and most influential association in the field services space, has welcomed GE Healthcare GE Healthcare is a $18 billion (USD) unit of General Electric (GE). It employs more than 46,000 people worldwide and is headquartered in Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. GE Healthcare is the first GE business segment headquartered outside the United States. to its growing membership community. AFSMI is internationally recognized for its 34 years of experience in delivering service industry research, training, and education programs, and industry events. GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. GE's expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, and treat disease, so their patients can live their lives to the fullest. GE Healthcare has joined AFSMI to obtain the benefits of benchmarking, collaboration, and research that only AFSMI can provide. As AFSMI continues to build out the medical technology market segment of its membership base, GE healthcare is looking forward to becoming a key contributor to the development of deliverables to the community. "This is a significant addition to the AFSMI community," said J.B. Wood, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of AFSMI. "GE Healthcare comes to us at an exciting time as we launch our 'Med Tech' initiative. We look forward to growing our relationship with GE as we work together to further advance the medical technology services industry." About AFSMI Founded in 1975, the Association for Services Management International (AFSMI) is the global leader in helping service professionals and field services organizations deliver more value for their customers. AFSMI is a member of a global network of associations that includes the Service & Support Professionals Association (SSPA SSPA Solid State Power Amplifier SSPA Service and Support Professionals Association SSPA Software Support Professionals Association SSPA Short Statured People of Australia Inc. SSPA Submicron Signal Processor Architecture ) and the Technology Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. Association (TPSA An earlier rating from the now obsolete TPC-A benchmark, which measures overall transaction processing performance. See TPC. ). www.afsmi.com. About GE Healthcare Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company. GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases Noun 1. neurological disease - a disorder of the nervous system nervous disorder, neurological disorder disorder, upset - a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning; "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; , and other conditions earlier. The company's vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection, and disease prevention. www.gehealthcare.com. |
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