BARRINGTON, Ill. -- GE Healthcare has announced that Fairview Hospital, a Cleveland Clinic Health System partner and one of the nation's Top 100 Hospitals(r)*[1] , will be the first healthcare organization to implement GE Centricity(r)Perinatal with AirStrip OB, an exclusive state-of-the-art technology by MP4 Solutions that allows obstetricians to use their PDAs (personal digital assistants) or Smart Phones to remotely access fetal heart tracings, maternal contraction patterns, and other critical, virtual real-time data from labor & delivery units. Electronic fetal heart rate monitoring is used to assess fetal well-being during labor and can help improve diagnostic accuracy of fetal compromise.

"At Fairview Hospital our physicians are dedicated to providing comprehensive and superior service for all types of pregnancies from the normal to the most complex," said Jeff Leimgruber, chief administrative officer from Fairview Hospital. "The ability to monitor expectant mothers in the labor and delivery unit remotely means additional peace of mind for our patients during their birthing experience."

Beginning in the early stages of the perinatal continuum, clinicians at Fairview Hospital will utilize GE's Centricity Perinatal Clinical Information System to document and access information about the mother and infant throughout the pregnancy. Working in conjunction with Centricity Perinatal, AirStrip OB(r), offered through GE's exclusive partnership with MP4 Solutions (MP4), then delivers the current and historical patient data, including the fetal strip and maternal contraction pattern, exams, vital signs, and patient census lists from Centricity Perinatal into a PDA via a cellphone connection to enable remote access for the clinician.

"Until now if one of our patients went into pre-term labor we would need to page their physician and relay information about patient progress via the phone while waiting for the physician to arrive, said Jules Moodley, M.D., chairman of Obstetrics at Fairview Hospital. "Today physicians can access critical patient information directly from their cellphones or PDAs whether they're checking in on a patient while rounding at another hospital, scrubbing in at the surgery center or simply 'on call.""

"We're excited that a leading organization like Fairview Hospital realizes the benefits of combining GE's Centricity Perinatal with the AirStrip OB offering," said Dave Henriksen, vice president and general manager for GE Healthcare Integrated IT Solutions. "Together GE and Fairview Hospital will raise the bar for the level of care that patients expect and deserve."

Developed using Microsoft's ".NET" framework, AirStrip OB incorporates Smart Client Technology on Smart Phone/PDA devices running Microsoft(r) Window Mobile 2003 and higher. AirStrip OB is designed to assist healthcare providers in complying with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and utilizes some of the strictest internet/wireless security measures available today.

About Fairview Hospital
Fairview Hospital is a faith-based, 478-bed acute care hospital that has served the community for over 110 years. In 1997 Fairview Hospital joined the Cleveland Clinic. Fairview's strong clinical Centers of Excellence include Heart, Cancer, Women's & Children's Services, Surgery, Emergency and Trauma Services.

Fairview Hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission of Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and is certified as a Level II Trauma Center. The Cancer Center is accredited as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the Commission on Cancer, an affiliate of the American College of Surgeons. The Birthing Center is designated a Level III Regional Perinatal Center and is further supported by the Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

The hospital conducts residency-training programs in family practice, general surgery and internal medicine and also has institutional affiliation with two medical schools to provide clerkship opportunities for medical students in several specialties. Fairview serves as a participating hospital for the anesthesiology, internal medicine, pediatric, radiology and sports medicine programs sponsored by the Cleveland Clinic.

Fairview Hospital is dedicated to providing high quality, patient-focused health care that is readily accessible, cost-effective and meets the needs of the community. The hospital contributes significant amounts of uncompensated and charitable care to the community as well as many free health screenings and programs. For more information please visit www.fairviewhospital.org
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About GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies that are shaping a new age of patient care. GE Healthcare's expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring and life support systems, disease research, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping physicians detect disease earlier and to tailor personalized treatments for patients. GE Healthcare offers a broad range of products and services that are improving productivity in healthcare and enhancing patient care by enabling healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases, and other conditions.

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

About MP4 Solutions, LP
MP4 Solutions, LP (MP4) is a Texas Limited Partnership formed to create, design and deploy medical software applications that focus on mobile/wireless technologies. Using cutting-edge PDA wireless technologies, AirStrip OB(r) interfaces exclusively with GE's Centricity Perinatal (QS) system to provide obstetricians with the ability to stay in real-time contact with their patients whenever they want, regardless of physician location. For more information on MP4 Solutions, please visit our website at www.airstripob.com.


Fairview Hospital

[1] Fairview Hospital was named one of the
nation's Top 100 Hospitals
(r) by Evanston, Ill.-based Solucient(r). The award identifies healthcare benchmarks and recognizes hospitals that demonstrate superior clinical, operational and financial performance in overall service. The annual study is based on publicly-reported data and examines performance levels in U.S. hospitals across five critical areas: clinical outcomes, patient safety, operational efficiency, financial stability and growth.