GE Healthcare Fact Sheet

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.

Our Vision

At GE Healthcare, we strive to see life more clearly. Our purpose is to help healthcare providers predict, diagnose, inform and treat disease earlier so that every individual can live life to the fullest. 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.


Financial Highlights

GE Healthcare Revenues<br>

2006 Revenues: $16.6 B

2007 Revenues: $16.9 B

Research & Development Expenditures: ~$1 B


GE Healthcare Primary Business Units

GE Healthcare’s Diagnostic Imaging business helps provide a fast, non-invasive way for doctors to see broken bones, diagnose trauma cases in the ER, view the heart and its function, or identifying the early stages of cancers or brain disorders. With X-ray, digital mammography, Computed Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance (MR) and Molecular Imaging technologies, GE creates industry-leading products that allow clinicians to see inside the human body more clearly than ever before.

GE Healthcare’s Surgery business offers a broad range of market-leading intra-operative and interventional imaging products, from a specialized mini C-arm for extremity imaging to cost-effective full-sized C-arms. Surgery's imaging products are integral in many fields including general surgery, orthopedics, neurosurgery, urology, cardiology, and GI, and for specialized procedures such as pain management. Surgery prides itself on offering imaging products with superb image quality and an unparalleled technical and clinical support team that ensures the products deliver optimum performance.

GE Healthcare Clinical Systems business provides a wide range of technologies and services for clinicians and healthcare administrators that can help caregivers improve the consistency, quality and efficiency of patient care everywhere. With efforts in ultrasound, ECG, bone densitometry, patient monitoring, incubators and infant warmers, respiratory care, anesthesia management and a wide range of technologies and services for clinicians and healthcare administrators, Clinical Systems enables clinicians to provide better care for millions of patients every day - from wellness screening to advanced diagnostics to life-saving treatment.

GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences delivers breakthroughs in drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing and the latest in cellular technologies, so scientists and specialists around the world discover new ways to predict, diagnose and treat disease earlier. The Life Sciences business also makes systems and equipment for the purification of biopharmaceuticals.

GE Healthcare’s Medical Diagnostics business develops diagnostic imaging pharmaceuticals designed for use with X-ray, Magnetic Resonance Systems and Nuclear cardiology systems, to help physicians in the earlier detection, diagnosis and management of a disease.

GE Healthcare’s Integrated IT Solutions business provides comprehensive clinical & financial information technology solutions including enterprise and departmental Information Technology products, RIS/PACS and CVIS systems, revenue cycle management and practice applications, to help customers streamline healthcare costs and improve the quality of care.