It is the only such reactor currently in operation. Also in 2004, GE Healthcare along with other healthcare companies built a research reactor for neutron and unit cell research at GE's European Research Center near Garching (outside of Munich), Germany. In 2004, the former Amersham plc business segments were separated into the GE Healthcare Medical Diagnostics and Life Sciences business segments and, both the business were combined again under the GE Life Sciences brand with Kieran Murphy taking the leadership role. The former Instrumentarium business was incorporated into GE Healthcare's Clinical Systems business segment. Currently, GE Healthcare owns 80% of all anesthesia machines in the United States and 60% of the machines in the world.
To satisfy regulatory concerns in the United States and in Europe, GE Healthcare was forced to divest Instrumentarium’s Ziehm Imaging mobile C-arm business, as well as its Spacelabs patient-monitoring unit. In 2003, GE Healthcare acquired Instrumentarium (including its Datex-Ohmeda division), a producer, manufacturer, and supplier of anesthesia machines and mechanical ventilators. Also in April 2002, GE Healthcare completed the acquisition of Visualization Technology, Inc., Boston, MA a manufacturer of intra-operative medical devices and related products for use in minimally invasive image guided surgery.
GE Healthcare IT would later merge the two products into one, although the stand-alone EMR product is still available and in development. By Jan 2003, GE acquired Millbrook Corporation, maker of Millbrook Practice Manager, a billing and scheduling system for doctors offices. In early 2002, GE Healthcare had acquired MedicaLogic (creator of the former Logician, an ambulatory Electronic Medical Records system) for approximately $32 million. The formal Imatron business was later incorporated into GE Healthcare's Diagnostic Imaging business segment. Imatron produced an Electron beam tomography (EBT) scanner that performs imaging applications used by physicians specializing in cardiology, pulmonology and gastroenterology. In 2001, GE Medical Systems acquired San Francisco, CA, based CT maker Imatron, Inc for $210 million.
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