SAN DIEGO - GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), has announced the general availability of major technology advancement for its industry-leading Centricity(tm) Business Solutions revenue cycle management solution (formerly known as IDX© Flowcast(tm)). (GE Healthcare announced its acquisition of IDX in September 2005.)

GE Healthcare has enhanced the performance of the Centricity Business Solutions Advanced Web client by adopting Microsoft© .NET architecture. The Advanced Web client delivers 100 percent web-based technology that improves user performance and patient satisfaction, according to Rich Elmore, Vice President of Development, Centricity Business Solutions (formerly the IDX Flowcast Operating Unit). Advanced Web with .NET further improves the response time of the Centricity Business Solutions administrative and financial management software for hospitals and medical facilities and improves the ability to provide
complex functionality with fewer resources required on the desktop.


"We are now able to deliver an extremely robust and high performing revenue cycle management tool," said Elmore. "With .NET incorporated into the Centricity Business Solutions client, our customers are realizing up to a 50 percent improvement in response time and up to a 20 percent improvement in throughput."

IDX announced beta testing of .NET within its Flowcast applications during their annual International Users' Conference in Boston in August 2005, prior to the company's acquisition by GE Healthcare. Due to customer demand and the desire to lead the industry, IDX had been successfully testing .NET with several Flowcast
partners and customers.

"We have been a .NET beta site for Flowcast since July 2005 and have experienced a dramatic improvement in the speed of the Flowcast application from an average of 18 seconds response time on some screens down to two seconds. It's been amazing," stated Cindy Little, IT Director for the University Physicians Inc., associated with the University of Maryland School of Medicine. "We are now able to roll out Centricity Business Solutions web-based technology to the rest of our customers, which will help make us be more productive and allow us to take advantage of additional programs and applications."

Additionally, Centricity Business Solutions customers Cornell University Medical Center and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center have been beta testing .NET. The technology enhancement is currently available to all Centricity Business Solutions customers for a minimal upgrade fee and will be incorporated in version 4.0 of Centricity Business Solutions revenue cycle management solution, expected to be available in 2006.

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