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GE Centricity^® PACS-IW launched at AOCR in Seoul, Korea

Held in Seoul from Oct 24th-27th 2008, the Asian Oceania Congress of Radiology (AOCR) was an astounding success! With an overwhelming 2500 attending delegates ranging from hospital radiologists, physicians and clinicians to medical professors from across Asia, it was a great show indeed for GE Healthcare, which showcased exciting solution demonstrations on Centricity^® PACS IW. Besides excellent booth traffic and great feedback, GE Healthcare also enjoyed great press & media attention, with HCIT President & CEO Vishal Wanchoo, and VP & GM of Asia HCIT Clarence Wu, being in the constant media limelight.

GE healthcare’s Centricity^® PACS-IW attains rare industry honour of being ranked #1 by both MD Buyline and KLAS

GE Healthcare Dynamic Imaging Solution’s Centricity^® PACS-IW portfolio has been ranked number one in both KLAS and MD Buyline’s latest industry reports. For more than two years, Centricity^® PACS-IW has topped MD Buyline’s best User Satisfaction Composite Rating, making it ten consecutive quarters at #1! Additionally, GE Healthcare’s Centricity^® PACS-IW was also ranked the #1 PACS in the large acute care segment (>200 beds), out of a total of 12 evaluated systems in KLAS’ recently published annual PACS–Acute Care Report.

“Building ‘Green Hospital’ using IT” ; Press Interview with President & CEO of GE Healthcare, Vishal Wanchoo

In Korea recently for AOCR, Vishal Wanchoo granted an interview to Korean press JoongAng Ilbo, where he talks about the concept of a green hospital based on information technology and how digitization of medical records will make treatment possible anywhere.

At the Heart of Centricity^® Cardiology IT

Centricity^® Cardiology IT combines best of Centricity CARDDAS Xi² and Centricity^® image server
technologies to complement an advanced Hospital Information System!

GE Healthcare IT unveils company’s next generation Centricity^® PACS-IW

China: GE Healthcare & Peking University Third Hospital celebrate successful Centricity^® RIS/PACS & HIS deployment

GE Healthcare is proud to announce the successful completion of a deal with Peking University Third Hospital (PUTH) to deploy Centricity^® PACS, Centricity^® RIS CE as well as implement HIS integrations across key departments throughout the premier healthcare institution. With the successful completion of the massive deployment, PUTH and GE Healthcare came together again in a customer conference held on the 22nd of November 2008 to share their success model with industry peers.

To learn more about our customer successes and testimonials throughout the region, please visit http://www.gehealthcare.com/asia/asia_testimonials.html

China: CHIMA 2008 WOWS Chinese Customers

The Chinese Hospital Information Network Conference (CHIMA) 2008 was held successfully in Nanning, Guangxi Province from 26th - 28th September 2008. National leadership from the Chinese Ministry of Health, hospital associations and local experts attended the GE-sponsored conference, which drew a turnout of more than a thousand foreign and regional Chinese delegates.

India: Second early health media summit held in Bangalore, India

The second India Early Health Media Summit held in Bangalore from 25th–26th September 2008 was a resounding success! 55 Journalists from leading publications throughout India, Sri Lanka and Colombo actively participated in the two day Summit, which included a visit to the healthcare Labs at GE John F Welch Research Centre and GE Healthcare X-Ray manufacturing facility. The Summit served to showcase GE's focus & commitment to India while demonstrating some the tools that can help change the way diseases are detected in the future.

GE showcases more than 45 products this year at RSNA 2008

GE Healthcare kicked off its participation in the 2008 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting in Chicago with an “Early Health” direction. More than 60,000 global healthcare thought leaders were privy to the latest I^³ solution for the Japanese market as well as the upcoming integration of AW Suite applications with GE Healthcare's Web-based PACS. In developing technology that enable healthcare providers to research, treat, monitor and share critical information for a variety of diseases and medical conditions, GE Healthcare is doing its part to help healthcare providers worldwide transform their healthcare delivery model to better cope with today's demand.

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Gary Swann Supervising MRI Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Perth, Western Australia	Ki-nam Lee Professor Department of Radiology Dong-A University, College of Medicine Busan, Korea	Rajeev Sethi Senior Consultant Department of Radiology St. Stephens Hospital Delhi, India

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