GE HEALTHCARE
Charles Koontz
President and CEO of GE Healthcare Digital and CDO of GE Healthcare
Koontz is Chief Digital Officer ( CDO ), GE Healthcare , and President and CEO , GE Healthcare Digital . In his roles , Koontz leads the horizontal implementation of analytics , cloud technology and deep learning solutions across all of GE Healthcare , and the strategy and operations of the Healthcare Digital business , which includes software solutions for enterprise imaging , workforce management and financial management .
and ingests it into the cloud . We do a lot of what we call Advanced Preventive Maintenance , which is driven across the company and applied to healthcare . Plus , we are driving two dimensions of horizontal : the internal IT system that we call Digital Thread , and a consortium of third-party developers .”
The Digital Thread is , quite literally , what connects all operational processes within GE Healthcare . The thread automates processes and enables insights and actions that improve performance . This lies within the remit of James Richards , the company ’ s CIO , who summarizes its purpose .
“ The simplest phrase I consistently use to explain ‘ digital ’ is that we need to get more output with less input ,” he says . “ Most companies that have been successful in digital have not entirely built their own technologies ; they have leveraged existing capabilities and put them together in a way that drives customer benefit for far less input than would have been required in the past . I also need to make it eminently easier for our employees
160 November 2017