WAUKESHA, WI - GE Healthcare announced today that it has signed a five-year, $1.2 million agreement with Boston Medical Center (BMC), the largest safety net hospital in New England. GE will install Centricity® Pharmacy, an industry-leading medication management and clinical decision support tool, at the 547-bed academic medical center, located in Boston’s South End.

The Centricity® system provides tools for pharmacy managers, pharmacists and nurses to efficiently distribute medications as prescribed by healthcare professionals, and monitor the use of drugs across the organization, helping to prevent adverse interactions. The Centricity Pharmacy software will also be interfaced to BMC’s Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) System and Medication Administration Record (MAR) to create a closed-loop medication management solution.

“BMC chose GE as our pharmacy partner not only for the their industry-leading pharmacy software but also for their ability to seamlessly integrate our other IT systems to create a best-of-breed medication management solution for our institution,” said Meg Aranow, vice president and chief information officer of Boston Medical Center.

About Boston Medical Center

Boston Medical Center is a private, not-for-profit, academic medical center affiliated with Boston University School of Medicine. Committed to providing high-quality health care to all, the hospital offers a full spectrum of pediatric and adult care services including primary and family medicine and advanced specialty care with an emphasis on community-based care. Boston Medical Center offers specialized care for complex health problems and is a leading research institution. Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine are partners in the Boston HealthNet-15 community health centers focused on providing exceptional health care to residents of Boston. For more information, please go to www.bmc.org.

About GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies that will shape a new age of patient care. GE Healthcare’s expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, disease research, drug discovery and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is dedicated to detecting disease earlier and helping physicians tailor treatment for individual patients. GE Healthcare offers a broad range of services to improve productivity in healthcare and enable healthcare providers to better diagnose, treat and manage patients with conditions such as cancer, neurological and cardiovascular diseases.

GE Healthcare is a $14 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) that is headquartered in the United Kingdom. Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 42,500 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries.