GE Healthcare has signed an agreement with Novation for GE's advanced radiology and cardiology image and information management technologies. Novation is the health care contracting services company for VHA Inc. and the University Health System Consortium, two national health care alliances.

Through Novation, the agreement will be offered to VHA, UHC and Provista member health care organizations. Under the terms of this three-year agreement, which takes effect Oct. 1, 2007, GE Healthcare will provide VHA and UHC members with clinical breadth and depth in leading-edge technologies and services that will help simplify workflow, enhance diagnostic certainty, and improve outcomes.

GE will provide its Centricity RIS-IC, Centricity Radiology PACS, Centricity CVIS, and Centricity Cardiology PACS as part of this agreement.

"GE Healthcare is extremely pleased to have this agreement with Novation, " said Vishal Wanchoo, president and CEO, GE Healthcare IITS. "Novation has recognized GE's breakthrough technologies as important to its mission of delivering industry-leading equipment to its alliance members. "We are pleased to offer GE Healthcare's radiology and cardiology image and information management technologies to our alliance member health care facilities," said David Starr, portfolio executive at Novation.

About Novation

Based in Irving, Texas, Novation is the leading health care contracting services company, delivering unmatched savings and value to nearly 2,500 members of VHA Inc. and the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), two national health care alliances and nearly 9,000 members of Provista, LLC (formerly known as Healthcare Purchasing Partners International, LLC (HPPI)).

Through its competitive bid process, Novation develops and manages contracts with more than 500 suppliers, both large and small. By combining scale and agility with clinical knowledge and product expertise, Novation offers the most extensive range of innovative contracting services, including: contract development, contract and supplier management, custom contracting, enhanced savings programs, online contract management and analytical tools, order management and online supplier connectivity. VHA, UHC and Provista members used Novation and alliance purchased services contracts to purchase $31.6 billion.
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, treat and monitor disease, so 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 $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 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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