GE Healthcare Extends Leading Web-Based Imaging Solutions to Asia

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-Asia-AsiaNet/ –

Leading solution to offer imaging portability with powerful clinical tools for
hospitals and outpatient imaging centers

GE Healthcare, a leading provider of information technology, today unveiled
a suite of Centricity solutions targeted for hospitals and outpatient imaging
centers. Building on Centricity’s business process and advanced clinical
capabilities, the suite provides the robust Web-based accessibility of
IntegradWeb(R) solutions through the acquisition from Dynamic Imaging.

Centricity PACS-IW received the prestigious Best in KLAS – PACS award in
the end-of-year Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards-Software and Professional Services
Report (December 2008). For nearly three years, Centricity PACS-IW has garnered
the best User Satisfaction Composite Rating, making it eleven consecutive
quarters at #1! In both cases the rankings reflect current Centricity PACS-IW
user opinion on a range of technical, service and business criteria.

"For optimal patient care, images and their related clinical information
need to be available anywhere, at anytime," said Don Woodlock, Vice President
and General Manager, GE Healthcare Information Technology (IT). "These
Web-based solutions will provide hospitals and outpatient imaging centers with
streamlined workflow inside and outside of their walls. Better yet, referring
physicians throughout the community will be serviced with simple, yet powerful
access to imaging results. Everyone benefits."

GE Healthcare’s Centricity PACS-IW Solutions for hospitals will offer
Web-based portability, instantaneous image reporting and scalable business
processes. This single-desktop solution will drive practice efficiency,
productivity for the radiologist and immediate results access for the referring
physician by fostering a more collaborative approach to patient care and
provider partnerships, thus driving better patient care and business practices
in an increasingly competitive market. Centricity PACS IW allows the
radiologist to view images on any PC with regular monitors but for diagnosis
purposes, GE recommends Barco’s Coronis 6MP monitors due to their impressive
image quality, accuracy offering two screens together with equal luminance,
automatic calibration and broad usability.

"Centricity PACS-IW is a one-stop destination that will take medical
imaging to new heights of clinical productivity and collaboration without
boundaries," said Clarence Wu, VP and Asia Pacific GM, GE Healthcare IT
Solutions. "This powerful web-based portable solution, uses state-of-the-art
EMC storage technology, connects caregivers across healthcare via internet
anytime anywhere, allowing them to see more clearly, know more fully and share
more widely."

Also, during HIMSS Asia Pac, GE Healthcare IT will demonstrate our
leadership healthcare IT technologies such as Centricity Enterprise global
edition, Centricity RIS/PACS and Web Diagnostic @ Booth # 1109.

About GE Healthcare

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
http://www.gehealthcare.com .

About Barco

Barco, a global technology company, designs and develops visualization
products for a variety of selected professional markets. Barco has its own
facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in
Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Barco (NYSE Euronext Brussels: BAR) is
active in more than 90 countries with about 3500 employees worldwide. Barco
posted sales of euro 725 million in 2008.

About EMC Corporation

EMC Corporation is the world’s leading developer and provider of
information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organisations
of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their
information. EMC provides hardware, software and services that help
organisations store, manage, protect and share their most important asset —
their information.

Media Contacts

GE Healthcare
Jiak Woen Khor
Tel: +603-2267-1885
Email: JiakWoen.Khor@ge.com

Waggener Edstrom for GE Healthcare
Rob Carter
Tel: +65-8168-7894
Email: rcarter@WaggenerEdstrom.com

SOURCE GE Healthcare