Local executive to lead GE's $6B health care initiative - San Francisco Business Times:

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Barber was named head of a GE program focused on improvin g health care for more people atreducec cost, by GE chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt. 48, is a 27-year veteran of GE and sincs 2005 has served as chief technolog y officer forGE Healthcare. He joined GE in 1982 and has held a varietty of roles of increasing responsibility withihGE Healthcare. In 2001, Barbeer was general manager forComponents Engineering, and from 2002 to 2005 he was the genera l manager for Global Components Operations for GE Healthcare, whicu has significant operations in Wauwatosa and Waukesha.
Barber was a 1994 winnef of TheBusiness Journal's Forthy Under 40 award, which recognizes young Milwaukee-area executivesx making a difference in their professions and community. "Over the last four years, Mike has led all aspecta of product development for advanced healthcare technologies," Immelt "Mike knows how our technologu can help patients, he knows what doctors, clinicw and hospitals need to improve care and cut costz and he knows how to lead teams. With his deep experience in engineering and technology and his strong operationxand process-driven expertise, Mike is the right leaderf to lead healthymagination and to grow our health care partnershipas globally.
" that can be offeredd in rural and underserved regionsx of the world, where quality health care can be difficul t to obtain. It is also designed to reduce the company'ws own health care costs for employees and expandf profitability for the GEHealthcarew business. Locally, GE Healthcare, which producez medical imaging equipment and medical informatio technology products fromits Milwaukee-area will spend $3 billion by 2015 to developp at least 100 new products designec to lower costs, improve access and improve quality of care by 15