Sacramento, CA-based Sutter Health and GE HealthCare have entered a seven-year strategic enterprise partnership.
Under the agreement, Sutter Health will deploy GE HealthCare’s AI-powered imaging and ultrasound technology across the entire healthcare system, including GE HealthCare’s Omni Legend PET/CT, StarGuide SPECT/CT, and Vscan Air SL ultrasound machines. GE HealthCare’s AIR Recon DL MR image reconstruction software will also be deployed.
The “comprehensive technology refresh” covers the breadth of GE HealthCare’s portfolio of technologies and services, officials said, in a news release.
Sutter Health boasts more than 300 facilities and serves more than 3.5 million patients. The strategic partnership will also support the system’s strategy to open dozens of new care sites across Northern California in the next few years, including two new flagship campuses in Silicon Valley with specialty care focuses.
In addition, GE HealthCare plans to assist Sutter Health in the design of a scalable workforce and talent development program focused on talent acquisition, development, and retention to support the health system’s clinical staffing needs.
“We’re responding to what we’ve heard from our physicians and making comprehensive upgrades with the latest technology to boost our capacity and expand access points,” noted Warner Thomas, president and CEO of Sutter Health.