Athlete Management Solutions, a new analytical tool created in partnership with Chicago-based GE Healthcare and the International Olympic Committee, provides physicians with real-time data and images regarding an athlete's blood pressure, heart rate and temperature as well as X-ray and ultrasound scan results. AMS was launched for the 2018 Winter Olympics and provides the information in nine languages.
Here are four things to know:
1. Physicians will use AMS to treat all 2,900 athletes currently competing in this year's Winter Olympics in South Korea.
2. Much of the equipment used at Olympics Polyclinic, the 24-hour healthcare facility for Olympic athletes, was manufactured at GE-owned facilities in southeastern Wisconsin.The clinic has mobile X-ray machines, ultrasound machines and patient monitors.
3. The IOC has partnered with GE Healthcare previously for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The IOC used GE Healthcare's Centricity Practice Solution to digitally manage athletes' emergency medical records; before this, the IOC used paper documents around the globe to track athletes' medical data, leading to incomplete or incorrect records, GE Healthcare reports.
4. GE Healthcare generated $1.15 billion in revenue for Boston-based General Electric in the recent fourth quarter. The subsidiary employs 6,000 in greater Milwaukee, making it one of the region's largest manufacturing and medical technology firms.
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