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When New York Police Department cracked on crime in the 1990s, it deployed CompStat, a process that crunched police data and spotted bad blocks and street corners. Cops then swooped in and cleaned them up. Now GE’s Medical Event Reporting System, or MERS, does something similar. It devours medical data and lets hospitals track errors and close calls to floors and wards with drop-down menus and mouse clicks.

The problem is grave. Medical errors cause as many as 98,000 deaths and cost American medical providers an estimated $29 billion annually.

Read how GE Healthcare’s MERS tackled the problem on GE blogs.

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KEYWORDS: People, Social Action & Community Engagement, Technology. Innovation & Solutions, doctors, Health, MERS, Medical Event Reporting System, GE, GE healthcare, Big Data

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“Nuclepore – another ’64 polymer advance – is now in production at Pleasanton, Calif., supplying medical and other customers with a filter whose extremely fine pores can be used in such ways as isolating cancer cells for medical research.”

For almost half a century GE has been on the front lines of cancer research. The company’s scientists and researchers have been central to the development and improvement of cancer screening tools that have detected cancer before it kills.

From the company’s earliest investment in x-ray machines, GE’s cancer screening tools are part of what is now a healthcare innovator that employs over 46,000 people worldwide and have saved countless more lives.

Read more about GE’s progress on Triple Pundit.

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KEYWORDS: Technology. Innovation & Solutions, Cancer, cancer research, GE, technology for good, Health, Triple Pundit

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It’s the blood-diamond issue of the electronics industry: Many of the minerals used in electronics — including tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold — come from areas awash in corruption, child labor and slavery, where mines are controlled by armed groups.

A U.S. law requiring companies to disclose if they source key minerals from conflict-torn areas has lit a fire under businesses to trace their supply chains and find conflict-free supplies. But with other countries also pressuring companies to eliminate conflict materials, there’s more demand for conflict-free minerals than supply.

And removing conflict minerals from a supply chain can be a major challenge because many companies don’t deal directly with a mine. Instead, those companies would need to check with every supplier along the route if they want to make sure their products are conflict-free.

A new fund backed by Intel, HP and the GE Foundation aims to lower the cost for smelters that seek to prove they’re conflict-free. It joins a variety of programs that have sprung up to support different stages of the mineral supply chain.

Read more about what GE, Intel and HP are doing to boost conflict-free minerals on GreenBiz.

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KEYWORDS: Eco-Living, Consumption & Travel, Environment, Finance & Investment, People, Social Action & Community Engagement, Conflict Minerals, Conflict-free, HP, Intel, GE, GE foundation

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In 1905 GE established the Electric Bond and Share Company to provide financing to small local utilities. Already in business for a quarter century by that year, GE realized that capital flow and capital were crucial for conducting business.

Since that venture into a space that had traditionally been left to banking, GE’s financial services have morphed into a global power in its own right. Over a century later, that precursor to GE Capital now employs over 60,000 people and manages more than half a trillion dollars in assets. Its portfolio is both huge and diverse: aviation, communications, entertainment, healthcare and real estate are among the businesses in which GE regularly finances.

Over 90 years after its earliest origins, GE had a crucial role in resolving the financial crisis that rocked Asian banking systems. In 1998, GE Commercial Finance developed a rapid valuation process that bundled 30,000 loans from 56 different firms. Developed at the time enormous loan auctions were held in Asia to restore liquidity, this approach helped stabilize global markets.

To read how GE has evolved, visit Triple Pundit.

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Roy Guo
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KEYWORDS: Business & Trade, Environment, Finance & Investment, Technology. Innovation & Solutions, GE, technology for good, Triple Pundit, green tech, start up

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GE is ramping up its wind power business in the heart of oil country. This week the company announced that it bought a 51 percent stake in a $375 million wind farm north of Oklahoma City. The Italian company Enel Green Power, which is building the project, will hold the rest of the stake in the 235 megawatt wind farm. For GE, its investment in the Chisholm View wind project both expands the partnership it has with Enel and its portfolio of 9.6 gigawatts of wind capacity it manages in the U.S. and across the globe.

The wind farm will be located outside Hunter, a small town of 173 people just south of the Kansas border. A transmission line runs through the project that electricity supplies the power grids in Oklahoma City and Wichita. But electricity generated by the wind farm will be supplied to Alabama Power Company, a utility that supplies electricity to 1.4 million customers in the U.S southeast.

Read more about GE and wind power at Triple Pundit.

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KEYWORDS: Energy, Environment, Technology. Innovation & Solutions, Oklahoma, wind power, GE, GE Energy, renewable energy

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Sustainable Packaging Symposium 2012, the second edition of the event, organized by Greener Package and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ Institute for Sustainability, kicked off in Houston, TX, with an emphasis on packaging’s role in the sustainable supply chain and the importance of Life Cycle Analysis for optimizing packaging.

Day one keynote presenter Dr. Bill Flanagan, leader of the Ecoassessment Center of Excellence for GE Global Research, began the event by enumerating for attendees the benefits of the LCA. “The LCA is a qualitative assessment,” he said. “If we are going to be making decisions, we want to be sure that we are not shifting the burden.”

He added that a LCA allows a company to:
• Focus on the areas where they can make the most impact
• Communicate fairly complex product benefits to consumers
• Foster transparency with stakeholders

Read the full article at Packworld.

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KEYWORDS: Business & Trade, Eco-Living, Consumption & Travel, Events, Conferences & Webinars, SPS 2012, GE, GE Global Research, conferences, life cycle analysis, sustainable packaging

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As part of its 20^th Anniversary of Energy Star celebrations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) named 109 organizations 2012 Energy Star Award winners for their outstanding leadership and commitment to protecting America’s environment through energy efficiency.

The Sustained Excellence Award was given to 57 organizations that continue to raise the bar across their respective industries for outstanding achievements in energy efficiency. Among them are GE Appliances and Lighting, whose offerings include 500 ENERGY STAR lighting models and 93 new LED products. The company was also the first major appliance manufacturer to partner with the EPA on the Responsible Appliance Disposal (RAD) Program to help reduce ozone depleting substances.

You can read the full article at ThomasNet.

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KEYWORDS: Eco-Living, Consumption & Travel, Energy, Environment, Reporting, Ratings & Rankings, Technology. Innovation & Solutions, Energy Star, GE Appliance and Lighting, led, EPA, Sustained Excellence Award

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• GE has supplied the first of three 2 MW Jenbacher Combined Heat and Power (CHP) engines, for the 67 acre King’s Cross development
• The engine, affectionately named the Pink Panther, has been uniquely painted pink to support Breast Cancer Research
• From 12-20 May the team will be trailing the Pink Panther in a 750 mile charity cycle ride from Jenbach, in Austria where the engine was built, to its new home in King’s Cross

Goal of making more powerful engines that run cleaner and require less fuel

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A quick look at our nation’s philanthropic, industrial and government landscapes reveals dozens of inventive – but separate – initiatives designed to enhance water sustainability and address the clean water crisis in developing countries. But imagine if we were somehow able to distill these efforts into a cohesive approach that would identify and capitalize even a small percentage of the synergies among them.

While NGOs and foundations, the private sector, and governments are all working diligently, imagine the impact they could create working in concert.

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Tweet me: #Water #Sustainability: What Governments, Industry & NGOs Can Accomplish Together http://3bl.me/kkwew4 by Jon Freedman of #GE

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KEYWORDS: Eco-Living, Consumption & Travel, water, Water Sustainability, sustainability, Governments, Industry, NGOs

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