The web site describing General Electric Co.’s healthymagination initiative highlights the company’s strategy for transforming health care globally. It lists programs including Innovation Challenge awards (first around breast cancer and now in traumatic brain injury diagnosis, in collaboration with the National Football League), public health initiatives, and product innovations (a process of validating GE products as meeting criteria for quality, access, and affordability – the cornerstones of healthymagination’s vision). There’s also mention of the healthymagination investment fund, which links viewers to the GE Ventures home page.
But what is out in the public domain does not tell the story of what healthymagination is doing today. Launched in May 2009 as a six-year, $6 billion commitment by...
