GE Healthcare to drive Edison platform from India

India is the center of gravity for a bulk of technology-development work for GE Healthcare’s AI-based healthcare platform Edison. Edison enables GE Healthcare and partners to deploy, manage, and distribute advanced applications, services, and AI algorithms.

The bulk of this programming will be led by company’s engineers, and GE will be hiring 100 people dedicated to this by the end of this year. The bulk of the investment in the Edison platform is in India. However, of the company’s R&D spends of about USD 1 billion, a large proportion goes into developing Edison and other digital technology. The company currently has 2300 engineers at its development center in Bengaluru, where most of the cutting-edge tech development on digital is taking place.

GE Healthcare recently onboarded its first set of five startups onto Edison through its Edison [X] startups program. While it would continue with such engagements, the focus will shift from individual onboarding to expanding the platform. The Edison platform allows these companies to collaborate and market their solutions to GE Healthcare customers globally. Additionally, it also gives them access to data from GE customers and healthcare partners. The first set of start-ups include those providing solutions in radio diagnostics and imaging, using AI and machine learning.