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image FORTUNE RANKS GE THE NINTH MOST ADMIRED COMPANY

FORTUNE recently released its 2009 World's Most Admired Companies list and GE ranked Number 9 overall and Number 1 in the electronics industry. Although these are challenging times across the globe, GE has been recognized for our underlying strengths and is well positioned in this tough environment. While GE’s stock slid 56% last year and our 31-cent quarterly dividend has been cut to 10 cents, CEO Jeff Immelt took the lead with a 28% pay cut and demanded no bonus for 2008. It is no doubt these leadership qualities, on top of GE's diverse business strength - which range from wind turbines to medical imaging devices to TV network NBC – that will help us weather the storm and remain on the recognition list of top companies globally.

image FROST AND SULLIVAN ANNOUNCES GE HEALTHCARE AS THE RECIPIENT OF THE 2009 GROWTH STRATEGY LEADERSHIP OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR MEDICAL IMAGING

Frost & Sullivan recently announced that GE Healthcare is the winner of the 2009 Growth Strategy Leadership of the Year Award in Medical Imaging. This award recognizes the growth path realized to GE by the acquisition of Dynamic Imaging and acknowledges the benefits of Centricity PACS-IW that have expanded to all market segments, to include hospitals, imaging centers and physician offices, as well as integration to RIS-IC for hospital Web-based RIS/PACS and Centricity RIS/PACS-IW for imaging centres. In capitalizing effectively on the strategic acquisition, GE Healthcare has been able to effectively stimulate our imaging informatics business despite challenging market conditions and saturation, which has acted to strengthen GE Healthcare’s leadership position in the North American imaging informatics market as well as globally.

This prestigious 2009 Frost & Sullivan award further highlights GE’s global growth strategy for our business, including:

  • 2007 acquisition: Dynamic Imaging w/top-ranked Centricity PACS-IW
  • US PACS growth: community hospitals, outpatient imaging centers, physician offices
  • Web-based RIS/PACS for hospitals & imaging centers with RIS-IC, RIS/PACS-IW
  • Global PACS growth: product Internationalization – localized for French, German, Italian, Japanese, with more on the way
  • Leveraging of IW Web-based technology
  • Centricity PACS Web Diagnostic (“Web DX”): diagnostic Web viewer for Centricity PACS 3.0 customers worldwide
imageCentricity PACS-IW RANKED #1 ON BOTH MD BUYLINE AND KLAS

GE Healthcare’s Centricity PACS-IW portfolio has been ranked first in both KLAS and MD Buyline’s latest industry reports. Over the past two years, Centricity PACS-IW has consistently topped MD Buyline’s best User Satisfaction Composite Rating, making it ten consecutive quarters at #1! 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.


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