"This study empowers athletes and doctors to take a proactive approach with their health, potentially preventing injuries before they even occur. Our ability to use this technology, and to stream the images across the World using the Internet, will be an extremely valuable tool in expanding healthcare capabilities not only during the Olympic Games, but to communities everywhere," added Dulchavsky.

Both clinical studies are currently underway with initial results expected around the start of the Beijing Games. GE expects to conduct similar athlete research programs in other countries as well.


''Our research and partnerships play an increasingly important role in discovering benefits for patients and revolutionizing athlete medical care," said Omar Ishrak, president and CEO of GE Healthcare's Clinical Systems division. "Our work with the USOC, Massachusetts General Hospital and Henry Ford Health Systems plays a key role. GE will continue to further enhance our ultrasound technology to meet the growing needs of patients and their clinicians worldwide."

About GE and the Olympic Games
As a Worldwide Partner of the Olympic Games, GE is the exclusive provider of a wide range of innovative products and services that are integral to a successful Games. GE works closely with the host countries, cities and organizing committees to provide infrastructure solutions for Olympic Games venues, including power, lighting, water treatment, transportation and security, and to supply hospitals with ultrasound and MRI equipment to help doctors treat athletes. NBC Universal, a division of GE, is the exclusive U.S. media partner of the Olympic Games. GE's Olympic partnership was launched in January 2005 and continues through 2012.

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 47,000 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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