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The general electric healthcare faces various issues in the implementation of the low cost diagnostic equipment cost in the developing countries. One of those issues is the female feticide in some of the developing countries like India and China. This is because their cultures economically and socially value men more than female in various ways. According to them, men carry-on the family name and contributes more to the families financial needs. This issue is very critical and calls upon the general electric in healthcare to resolve it. The issue can be resolved by ensuring that the ultrasound equipment or any other diagnostic equipment comes with a warning. The warning should warn any individual using the equipment that it is very illegal to use the equipment in determining the child’s sex before birth. The users should also be made aware that anyone that violates this legal warning should be subjected to sanctions by the government. The manufacturer of the equipment should properly place the warning signal on all boxes of the diagnosis equipment. This will help in dealing with the female feticide in the developing countries thus reducing the case of people terminating pregnancy when the pregnancy mother is carrying a baby girl.

Another ethical issue faced by the general electric in the health care is when it comes to managing and monitoring of the eHealth data for the patients, while the TrustLaw report on the mHealth privacy of data and any security issues. These issues help underscore the culture importance in the developing countries. There is an existing gap in the protection privacy and the data security. The developing countries government should therefore look for ways of dealing with the issue. It should come up with ways of ensuring that patients’ data and information are kept in a safe database where they can only be accessed under the permission of the patient.

Professional and applied ethics is a science or art that reflect on the moral problems in various social contexts. It is a philosophical method to help in the treatment of the moral problems. There are various types of these ethics; the bioethics that deals with the identification of the best approach to use when dealing with moral issues in the community. There is environmental ethics that deals with the ecological issues the government responsibility and corporations in dealing with pollution. Also there is business ethics that handles the responsibilities of the whistleblowers to general public. These ethics can be dealt with in various ways; like the utilitarianism, deontological ethics and the virtue ethics. There are general electric healthcare have applied various concept of the professional and applied ethics in the lowing the diagnosis equipment cost in the developed countries. Technology is advancing each day that passes. The advancement in technology has provided people with the best and effective medical attention. The combination of information technology and healthcare has a huge impact on GE healthcare. This will help in service improvement providing best care to the patients in the developing countries.

However, the general electric healthcare has breached the professional and applied ethic concept in various ways in its objective of lowing diagnosis equipment cost in the developing countries. One of these breaches is its increasing need of reverse innovation. Like for example, GE healthcare modern model states that the manufacturing should be carried-out in the low cost/developing countries but produced products sold In the developed countries. The general electric model is very strict and does not permit any company to meet the market opportunities present in India, China or any other developing countries that are really yearning for the low-end medical devices. The GE healthcare does not also but into consideration the need for expertise and innovation in the field of biomedical sciences. The available expertise are only equipped with the physics and engineering knowledge. In 1996, the general electric healthcare counsel told his team that what they were doing in India, China and other developing countries could lead to human right problems. He urged the team to look for ways of resolving the preference of male children in cultures where the diagnostic of the ultrasound was being sold.

For general electric healthcare to balance its responsibility of the continued growth and development in the developing countries, it has to target the clean technology innovation. GE has to create resource-constrained world. It can achieve that by coming up with a detailed bottom-up map of each need and everything that it represent. The resource efficiency will help it maintaining its growth and development balance. The clean technology gives them a world class performance in its operations. The general electric reverse technology should be fully emphasized as it specializes in the high quality technology diagnostic equipment. The general electric healthcare should the clean technology to redesign in a way that they can be used by all doctors including those in the developing countries. This will greatly help in balancing its responsibility to ensure ontinued growth and development in the developing countries.

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