GE Healthcare Unveils Vision of Digital, Wireless and Paperless Healthcare.

DALLAS -- Company showcases technologies to help make America's health records fully electronic by 2014

GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), today kicked off its participation in the 2005 Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference & Exhibition February 14-17 at the Dallas Convention Center. During the conference, GE is showcasing its innovative healthcare information technologies (IT), developed to advance more accurate, efficient, cost effective and patient-focused healthcare.

"As one of the world's leading healthcare IT companies, GE is working to make healthcare safer, more effective and efficient through electronic digitization of information," said Vishal Wanchoo, president and CEO of Information Technologies, part of GE Healthcare. "GE is leveraging its healthcare and information technologies expertise to usher in a new era of healthcare that bridges the information gap between healthcare facilities, physicians and patients. The next decade will bring about an information revolution that will transform healthcare - and GE is at the forefront of that revolution."

GE's clinical information technologies expertise spans cardiology, patient monitoring, image management and communications, and clinical information systems to enable real-time, integrated electronic medical records. These IT solutions, under the Centricity(R) brand, facilitate the electronic sharing of patient records, pharmacy, lab results and images within both doctor offices and hospital networks.

At HIMSS, GE is showcasing new technologies, as well as the company's partnerships with others in the industry to develop new technologies and to increase information sharing, including:

--New technology that applies several convenient and user-friendly concepts of the financial industry to personal healthcare management. GE's Health Kiosks(TM) allow patients to "withdraw" from and "deposit" information into their healthcare records at each doctor's office or facility they visit

--New technology to support efforts to develop a secure and interoperable exchange of healthcare information among patients and caregivers over a National Health Information Network. The technology, called Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS), will be used in national and regional community collaboration pilot programs

--Agreements to provide its IT technologies to Duke University's Duke Health network and the U.S. government's TRICARE Management Activity, the health care provider for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), which manages the healthcare for the U.S. military and its retirees around the world

"At HIMSS, GE is showcasing its clinical systems and software solutions integrated with the best IT systems and business applications," said Wanchoo. "The result is a seamless digital solution that allows our partners to improve patient care and reduce medical errors, while increasing efficiencies and reducing costs."

ABOUT GE HEALTHCARE

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies that will shape a new age of patient care. GE Healthcare's expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, disease research, drug discovery and biopharmaceuticals is dedicated to detecting disease earlier and tailoring treatment for individual patients. GE Healthcare offers a broad range of services to improve productivity in healthcare and enable healthcare providers to better diagnose, treat and manage patients with conditions such as cancer, Alzheimer's and cardiovascular diseases.

GE Healthcare is a $14 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) that is headquartered in the United Kingdom. Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 42,500 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.