GE Healthcare Re-Imagines Health Information Technology at the 2006 HIMSS Conference; Company Unveils Comprehensive Solutions for Complete Continuum of Care.

SAN DIEGO -- GE Healthcare Introduces Breakthrough Integrated IT Initiatives to Transform Healthcare, Bringing Together the Strengths of GE and IDX Systems Corporation

GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), today kicked off its participation in the 2006 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference & Exhibition in San Diego, unveiling breakthrough efforts to seamlessly connect clinicians from physicians' offices to hospitals with comprehensive, enterprise-wide electronic medical record (EMR) solutions. These technology offerings, under the Centricity(R) product brand, will be introduced for the first time since the recent January 2006 acquisition of IDX Systems Corporation.

"The new GE Healthcare Integrated IT Solutions business is combining the best minds in medicine, technology, and business to transform the way healthcare is delivered by offering customers a comprehensive suite of clinical, financial and business management solutions that support knowledge-driven care," said Vishal Wanchoo, president and CEO of GE Healthcare Integrated IT Solutions. "These powerful new capabilities position GE as a leading healthcare IT provider, helping customers streamline healthcare costs, reduce medical errors and improve the overall quality of patient care."

During HIMSS, GE is launching its enterprise strategy through the Digital Healthcare Community (Booth 4509), a unique tour of a patient's journey through the healthcare continuum, featuring leading-edge GE technology, including inpatient and outpatient electronic health records, imaging, monitoring devices, and departmental systems, such as perinatal and perioperative, working in concert to support the patient care delivery process.

GE is also showcasing a broad range of visionary technologies that will help enable healthcare providers to predict, diagnose, inform and treat disease more efficiently than ever before. Through hands-on demonstrations, the Science and Technology Pavilion will showcase how GE is re-imagining the role of healthcare IT and science, creating the backbone for revolutionizing healthcare from treating "late disease" to enabling "early health" through innovative technologies including evidence-based medicine; modular decision support; home monitoring device integration; and portable lifetime patient health records.

In addition, through its leadership participation in Integrating the Health Enterprise (IHE), GE is demonstrating technologies that provide seamless health information exchange among care providers, a key enabler for building regional health information organizations. The new standards-based interoperability effort will help deliver on the vision for providing secure exchange of healthcare information among patients and caregivers as part of a Nation-wide Health Information Network.

Also during HIMSS, the GE product pavilion, located in Booth #1719, will showcase the full depth and breadth of the new Centricity(R) product line, emphasizing the combined strengths that the GE and IDX products bring to the practice and enterprise. GE will feature targeted solutions including clinical and financial solutions, such as the new Centricity Enterprise solution (formerly IDX Carecast) and the GE Centricity Picture Archiving Communications System (PACS) interfaced with the former IDX Imagecast(TM) Radiology Information System (RIS).

The booth will also show complete solutions for the practice environments, including Centricity EMR integrated with best-in-class financial products. The booth also will offer demonstrations of technologies that facilitate better health management by patients and primary care physicians alike, including Centricity Patient Online and Centricity Referring Practice Online. Industry-leading departmental solutions will also be featured for the perinatal, laboratory, perioperative and pharmacy environments.

"By offering a comprehensive solution of information technologies, we are truly integrating healthcare delivery by seamlessly capturing a comprehensive view of the patient," said Wanchoo. "This view will help all care providers better predict, diagnose and treat their patients - resulting in more effective and cost efficient care."

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 and treat disease, so their 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 $15 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 43,000 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.