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Med1Online Forges Business Partnership and Enters into Distribution Agreement with GE Healthcare

Business Wire, March 10, 2008

GOLDEN, Colo. -- Med1Online, a leading provider of new, used and reconditioned capital medical equipment (CME) across all medical specialties, announced today that the company entered into a distribution agreement with GE Healthcare.

Since its founding five years ago, Med1Online is among the Internet's top 400 retailers worldwide based on sales volume, garnering in excess of 10,000 visitors to its website daily. This, combined with a database of more than 800,000 key health care contacts, will present GE Healthcare with a range of new and exciting platforms that can further expand its brands and enhance product recognition.

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In addition to its unique distribution model of providing both new and used equipment options, Med1Online is utilizing a suite of proven marketing services to maximize GE Healthcare's exposure, such as: search engine pay-per-click keyword campaigns; targeted direct mail campaigns; innovative telemarketing services; priority product uploads to Med1Online's catalog; manufacturer-specific Internet landing pages; state-of-the-art online product demonstrations and effective banner ad campaigns. Each of these features affords all partnering manufacturers, such as GE Healthcare, with many opportunities to increase visibility among those most likely to purchase their equipment and associate with their brands.

To kick off the new relationship with GE, Med1Online is offering several special promotions through the end of March 2008. These promotions are designed to provide further cost savings for health care organizations while highlighting a range of diverse GE Healthcare equipment packages. Specific details of these special promotions can be found at www.med1online.com.

"We are pleased to forge this relationship with GE Healthcare in an effort to further expand our growing portfolio of new equipment manufacturers. With its broad, global recognition, GE Healthcare is an international powerhouse and a great addition for our customer base. We are confident that our Internet presence and dynamic customer base can help strengthen GE Healthcare's market leadership position and worldwide presence," said Mark Axe, Chief Strategy Officer at Med1Online.

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 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 www.gehealthcare.com.

ABOUT MED1ONLINE:

Golden, Colo.-based Med1Online (www.Med1Online.com) was founded in 2002 to provide purchasers with a better vehicle in which to buy capital medical equipment. The company is a leader in the provision of new, used and reconditioned capital medical equipment for all medical specialties. Its customers include physicians, dentists, surgical centers, hospitals and a range of other health care providers. Med1Online currently distributes for over 300 leading capital equipment manufacturers and is adding 25 new business partners monthly to its extensive portfolio of product offerings.

Since its inception in 2002, Med1Online has focused on building the most comprehensive database containing information about pre-owned, premium quality, late model products available for purchase from physician offices, hospitals and clinics throughout the country. Med1Online offers prescreened, best value, leading-edge technology at every price-point, in every product line. Med1Online is ISO 13488:96-compliant, providing an internationally recognized level of quality assurance. The Med1Online logo is a registered trademark of Med1Online. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Med1Online Forges Business Partnership and Enters into Distribution Agreement with GE Healthcare

Business Wire, March 10, 2008

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