GE And Roche Join Forces In First-Of-Its-Kind Tech Pact

The goliaths of imaging and in vitro diagnostics have sealed a pact to codevelop a new data analytics platform for faster clinical decision-making, more accurate diagnosis and more personalized treatments.

GE Healthcare and Roche, the respective number ones in the diagnostic imaging and in vitro diagnostics markets, have agreed to codevelop a new, jointly branded software tool that will apply advanced analytics to in vivo data from GE's imaging and monitoring equipment and in vitro data from Roche’s biomarker, tissue pathology, genomics and sequencing portfolio.

The tool will allow for faster, more accurate and more confident decision-making,

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