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Sixteen of Eighteen Top Ranked Hospitals By U.S. News & World Report Are Customers of GE Healthcare Centricity Solutions

Posted on: Friday, 14 September 2007, 12:00 CDT

GE Healthcare announced today that 16 of the 18 top Honor Roll hospitals listed by U.S. News & World Report in its 18th annual edition of America's Best Hospitals currently use one or more GE Centricity® solutions. The report examined over 5,400 medical centers and ranked 173 hospitals as the best, giving Top Honors to 18 that demonstrated excellence with high scores in at least six specialties.

"GE Healthcare is humbled to be an IT solution of choice by a clear majority of America's top healthcare facilities," said Vishal Wanchoo, president and CEO, GE Healthcare Integrated IT Solutions, "and proud to collaborate with each of these prestigious organizations. We congratulate them on achieving this accomplishment and well-deserved national recognition."

At the top of this year's list is Johns Hopkins Hospital, a Centricity Business, Centricity Perinatal and Centricity Pharmacy customer, also currently implementing Centricity Electronic Medical Record (EMR) in the hospital's affiliated clinics. Other Honor Roll customers include the Mayo Clinic, a Centricity Enterprise customer; UCLA Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital, customers utilizing Centricity Imaging solutions; and Stanford Hospital and Clinics, a Centricity Business, Enterprise and Imaging customer.

The GE Centricity offering is a suite of proven, advanced solutions that span the entire care spectrum -- from independent physician practices to large and complex integrated delivery networks.

ABOUT GE HEALTHCARE:

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest.

GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com.

Source: Business Wire

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