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GE Healthcare Launches New Ultrasound System With Early Diagnostic Tools

by Akane Naka, Project Manager | October 24, 2006

* GEs exclusive TruScan architecture, a feature that simplifies post-processing and archiving by enabling quick access to saved images from a previous study. This unique TruScan architecture has migrated to Voluson from GEs other flagship systems for the first time.

* A high priority on SonoErgonomics - the height of the control panel is electrically adjustable and the high-resolution flat-panel display is independent of the main console, moving on an articulating arm that glides into place.

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* A robust inter-office information system with ViewPoint, a powerful OB/GYN patient data management solution, which brings advanced imaging full circle by extending clinical capabilities, streamlining workflow and increasing diagnostic confidence.

With the insight of healthcares top physicians, GE is developing innovative ultrasound systems that address some of todays most pressing healthcare issues and are as ubiquitous as the stethoscope to further shift medicine into an Early Health model, said Karl-Heinz Lumpi, general manager of GE Healthcares Global Womens Health and Specialty Ultrasound Business. The Voluson E8 is yet another example of ultrasounds potential to unlock the future of advanced imaging by helping detect diseases early when they can be more effectively treated.

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.

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