GE Medical Systems Showcases Vision for Cardiac Care at American College of Cardiology 51st Annual Scientific Session
New CT Platform, Digital Cath Lab and Gender-Specific ECG Highlighted
ATLANTA -- GE Medical Systems, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), today unveiled a number of new technologies and programs at this year’s meeting of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), which runs through March 19 in Atlanta. The GE exhibit features the first ever cardiology technology pavilion, allowing visitors to get a look at emerging applications and concept equipment under development.
“GE Medical Systems has a cardiology solution for every need,” said Joseph M. Hogan, President and CEO of GE Medical Systems. “Our Innova 2000, all digital, flat-panel cardiovascular x-ray imaging system was introduced to the Cath Lab just two years ago. Already, we have more than 250 orders for this system, including as many as eight at one hospital complex alone. This is just one example of GE technology setting the standard for health care.”
GE Medical Systems Information Technologies will introduce Centricity™ Cardiology, a fully integrated cardiac care clinical information system. Centricity Cardiology software is designed to provide clinicians with increased cardiac patient information at one workstation allowing them to make faster and better-informed care decisions. The Centricity system delivers a seamless, paperless flow of patient cardiovascular data on a single interface with a single login.
In addition, GE Medical Systems Information Technologies will showcase its new 12SL™ GenderSmart™ electrocardiograph software. Studies have shown that this technology, which accounts for gender-specific heart rhythm differences, improves heart attack detection in women by 14 percent.
Earlier this year, GE Medical Systems announced plans to help build the nation's first all-digital heart hospital, The Indiana Heart Hospital, in Indianapolis. Scheduled for completion in December 2002, the $60 million, 210,000-square-foot "hospital of the future," will be the most advanced specialty hospital ever built delivering a new level of care for cardiovascular disease by eliminating paper and film-based medical records.
The Indiana Heart Hospital selected GE Medical Systems as its clinical technology partner to provide the all-digital hospital with advanced diagnostics, medical imaging and clinical information systems, including wireless, handheld communication technologies and the GE Centricity™ Information System.
"We’ll be providing our patients with the most advanced, specialty care hospital available today to combat heart disease," said David Veillette, CEO of The Indiana Heart Hospital. "We’re so totally committed to a paperless, filmless and wireless environment that we won’t even have nursing stations. Instead, our caregivers can input and retrieve patient information right at the bedside, which helps them deliver safer, more accurate patient care."
New diagnostic imaging platforms also will be highlighted in the GE booth. The Global Computed Tomography (CT) Business will exhibit its newly acquired C300 electron beam tomography (EBT) scanner as well as new applications for the world-renowned LightSpeed™ family. The Global Magnetic Resonance (MR) Business will feature cardiac studies completed on the world’s only 1.5T twin gradient system, the Signa Infinity TwinSpeed.
About GE Medical Systems
GE Medical Systems is an $8 billion global leader in medical imaging, interventional procedures, healthcare services, and information technology. Its offerings include networking and productivity tools, clinical information systems, patient monitoring systems, surgery and vascular imaging, conventional and digital X-ray, computed tomography, electron beam tomography, magnetic resonance, ultrasound and bone mineral densitometry, positron emission tomography, nuclear medicine, and a comprehensive portfolio of clinical and business services. For more than 100 years, health care providers worldwide have relied on GE Medical Systems for high quality medical technology and productivity solutions. For more information, visit the GE Medical Systems Web site at www.gemedical.com
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