SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) and a leading provider of information technology solutions, announced today that Scripps Health, a not-for-profit community-based health care delivery network in San Diego, has elected to upgrade its electronic medical record system with GE's Centricity® Enterprise Solution, an integrated clinical, financial and administrative solution.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With the average home often responsible for more than twice the annual greenhouse gas emissions than the average car1, many people are looking for ways to reduce their energy consumption. GE Consumer & Industrial -- the recent recipient of the 2007 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year "Sustained Excellence Award" -- has a suggestion: Use GE Energy Smart™ light bulbs and replace your aged dishwasher, refrigerator, air conditioner and washing machine with ENERGY STAR qualified appliances.
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NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announced today that as part of the company's ongoing contract with the U.S. Department of Defense, Centricity® Pharmacy will be implemented at three unnamed U.S. military treatment facilities in 2007. The award of the multi- million-dollar order is the next installment of a ten-year agreement between GE and the DoD originally signed in October 2004.
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NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), today announced that Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network (LVHHN), one of the nation's first digital hospitals and the largest academic community hospital system in Pennsylvania, is rolling out GE's Centricity® Electronic Medical Record (EMR) solution to up to 1000 local primary care physicians and specialists.
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EVENDALE, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Qantas Group has selected the GEnx engine as the powerplant for its Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet of up to 115 aircraft.
The initial order is for 90 installed engines. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in 2008.
"This selection of the GEnx engine to power Qantas' 787 fleet is exciting news for our business," said Scott Donnelly, president and CEO of GE Aviation. "We look forward to working with the airline to ensure the entry into service of the GEnx-powered 787 aircraft is flawless."
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SheetGen Provides Timely Construction-Quality Drawings of a Pipeline System for Field Use
HOUSTON, TEXAS - February 28, 2007 :- GE's PII Pipeline Solutions business has launched a new version of PipeView™ SheetGen, a software tool to generate pipeline alignment sheets directly from maintained data sources.
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NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), released today key learnings about physician attitudes toward Stark Relaxation, based on data obtained from an independent study. The study reveals that recent relaxation of the "Stark" Physician Referral law and Anti-Kickback Statute ("Stark Relaxation") could greatly accelerate the adoption of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems by physicians and could as much as double the number of physician practices that are willing to acquire or upgrade an EMR system within the next year.
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NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare and MobileAccess announced today that more than 10 hospitals in the last quarter have selected GE Enterprise Access as their universal wireless platform for hospitals. The Consumer Health World Conference recently named GE Enterprise Access as the "Best Mobile Technology for Improving Patient Care." GE and MobileAccess launched this wireless solution in December 2005.
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NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), today kicked off its participation in the 2007 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference & Exhibition in New Orleans, unveiling breakthrough efforts to seamlessly connect clinicians across the healthcare continuum---from the origination of treatment to its successful completion and from revenue cycle acceleration to clinical workflow optimization.