GE Healthcare and Intermountain Healthcare to Offer Leading Radiology Solution across Network; Installation Demonstrates Continued Commitment for Creating a Best-Practices Based Clinical Software Program

Business Wire, Feb 14, 2006

SAN DIEGO -- GE Healthcare and Intermountain Healthcare, one of the nation's top integrated healthcare system, announced today a contract for the implementation of GE's Centricity(R) Radiology Solution, a combined picture archiving communications system (PACS) solution and industry-leading radiology information system (RIS), formerly IDX Imagecast, in 21 institutions across Intermountain Healthcare's network. When complete, the installation will mark the largest GE centralized PACS installation in the United States. The announcement was made during the 2006 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference & Exhibition in San Diego.

"This is another great step in our collaboration with Intermountain Healthcare to develop an IT system that simplifies healthcare's current approach to clinical information systems," explained Tom Riesenberg, general manager of Centricity Imaging Solutions for GE Healthcare. "By implementing our Centricity Radiology Solution across Intermountain Healthcare's network of hospitals we are working towards ultimately providing all facilities - regardless of where they are located - access to the most comprehensive clinical data."

As part of the partnership announced in February 2005, GE and Intermountain Healthcare's team members are working together to research and develop significant advances to GE's Centricity software IT platform. The new best-practices based clinical software system will include Intermountain Healthcare's clinical decision-making abilities and will be based on current and emerging open healthcare standards.

GE also intends to provide other Centricity technologies for departments, including computerized physician order entry (CPOE), across institutions within Intermountain Healthcare's network, which includes 92 clinics/physician offices and 21 hospitals in Utah and Idaho, serving more than 2 million patients. These installations will facilitate the sharing of patient information throughout Intermountain Healthcare's network, over the next five years.

"We are excited by the continuing progress of this collaboration through the implementation of GE's PACS and RIS system across our network," said Marc Probst, Intermountain Healthcare's chief information officer. "Through this partnership we are closer to combining the rich clinical data Intermountain Healthcare has collected over the years with GE's clinical IT programs to enable clinicians to capture and learn from embedded protocols."

About GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform and treat disease, so their 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 $15 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 43,000 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.

About Intermountain Healthcare

Intermountain Healthcare is a charitable, community-owned, nonprofit health care organization based in Salt Lake City that has served the needs of Utah and Idaho residents for the past 30 years. The Intermountain Healthcare system includes health insurance plans, 21 hospitals, nearly 100 clinics and practices, a physician group and affiliated physicians. Last year, in more than 150,000 cases, Intermountain Healthcare hospitals and associated clinics provided $67 million in charitable assistance. A central part of Intermountain Healthcare's mission is to provide quality medical care to persons from the Intermountain region with a medical need, regardless of ability to pay. Intermountain Healthcare was recently named the nations number one integrated health network by Verispan, a research firm headquartered in Yardley, Pennsylvania. Intermountain Healthcare has been ranked number one in each of the last four years, as well as in 2000. For more information about Intermountain Healthcare, visit www.ihc.com.