Journey of the Journeyman

BrainLab AG, a German vendor, has come up with a Digital Lightbox. This has got a touchscreen with some basic functionality such as ROI measurement, zoom-pan etc. Could not help but wonder what amazing applications one can think of if we marry this with the Microsoft Surface platform.

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Today I complete 8 years at GE.
I had joined GE Healthcare straight out of school after my post-graduation.  Started to work on an image management platform writing CORBA code, with Henning/Vinoski as my pillow for the all-nighters. Moved over to Milwaukee on the Edison program, wrote a bunch of code starting from management dashboards implementing 3D […]

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General Electric has been selected as the world’s most ethical company this year. While this obviously makes me proud because I work here, there is something more to it. The process behind the selection appears to be quite free of glib and hype and brings out an amazing fact:

The World’s Most Ethical Companies beat the […]

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This is a new affinity group that has opened up in GE Healthcare.
The aim is to provide a tension free and non-discriminatory working environment for people with special preferences. Membership is also open to “straight-laced” people like me (yes, I joined), who support in principal and action, the need for such “Safe Spaces”.
Proud to work for a company […]

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Neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta demonstrates on CNN with Wolf Blitzer some amazing tumor detection technology from GE. The demo looks cool and impressive and it is all in a day’s work for most of us.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/05/21/gupta.kennedy.health.cnn
Caveat: I am a GE Healthcare employee and my current and former teams develop this stuff. (I blog).

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Mike Barber, Chief Technical Officer at GE Healthcare, was over at JFWTC today on a global visit. He gave a no-ppt talk on a bunch of issues ranging from Deficit Reduction Act to amyloid plaque accumulation analysis in Alzheimer patients. Mike has been with GE Healthcare for 26 years, starting as an intern from MSOE.
This […]

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I had created a mailing list about 18 months back when I used to work at Clinical Software Engineering (my previous team at GE). Was supposed to be a group where people could share tech/geek stuff.

@HEALTH CSE BLR TechGeek

The list was quite inactive yet once in a while I’d get  a mail from a new […]

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This post may not be relevant to people outside GE, but this is a personal milestone for me. After close to a year’s hard work laced with bouts of extreme frustration, painful lessons learnt and about 30000 frequent flyer miles leading to a few pleasantly surprising business class upgrades, CardIQ Physio has gone from scratch to […]

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Snapped on my mobile at a place rather close to where I work
If you can read Hindi, you would have noticed that some unsung genius has translated “Hard hat area” to “Helmet Pradesh“.
Poetry, sometimes, is what is created in translation.
Technorati tags: hindi, translation, poetry

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