GE HealthCare and URMC form alliance to build advanced capabilities in imaging and monitoring

The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and GE HealthCare have formed a seven-year Care Alliance to build advanced capabilities across URMC’s footprint in upstate New York.

This includes a centre of excellence in its imaging sciences department, the addition of diagnostic tracer production for molecular imaging applications and the standardisation of patient monitoring across the health system.

The alliance is an expansion of a long-standing relationship between URMC and GE HealthCare, which will work to implement efficiencies that can help to decrease burdens on IT, biomed and clinicians, while standardising equipment across the health system.

The technology deployment includes upgrades to existing MRI systems and the delivery of new MRI systems with on-device AI applications that reduce imaging noise. The Continuum+ package allows for ongoing software upgrades as technology becomes available. URMC will also install one of the first Aurora SPECT/CTs in the USA, a dual-energy CT capable of single heartbeat cardiac scans, and the Logiq E10 ultrasound portfolio, while standardisation of patient monitoring will include solutions from across the Carescape monitoring portfolio.

Picture: Chair of imaging sciences at URMC Dr Jennifer Harvey.

Published on page 5 of the April 2026 issue of RAD Magazine.