Centricity Pharmacy is a comprehensive medication management solution that facilitates productivity and patient care improvements by managing the end-to-end workflow of a hospital pharmacy. The system interfaces to other information systems and devices to ensure the seamless movement of information between caregivers in the process of distributing medications.

Centricity Perinatal (QS) received the #1 in KLAS award for patient monitoring systems in 2005 and again in the company's Mid-Year Report. "We are thrilled that our customers are feeling the impact of our quality improvement programs. Our new technologies are really making an impact on our customers' workflow and ability to deliver patient care," said Dave Henriksen, general manager, Enterprise Solutions, GE Healthcare.


The Centricity Perinatal (QS) Clinical Information System supports efficient documentation of mothers and infants through the entire perinatal continuum - from prenatal management, to intrapartum fetal monitoring surveillance, through postpartum, nursery, and NICU, discharge documentation and patient education. Centricity Perinatal automates documentation and provides a single, continuous file of the entire patient record.

*The Top 20: Best in KLAS 2005 is a review of healthcare information technology product performance based on data collected over the past 13 months. For more information about KLAS Enterprise's report, visit www.healthcomputing.com.

About GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement solutions, 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 45,000 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.

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