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GE Healthcare Introduces the World's
First and Only Compact Ultrasound System With 4D Imaging Capabilities
FDA Clears GE’S Voluson i; New
Laptop-Size 4D Ultrasound System Brings Breakthrough OB/GYN
Technology
to the Point of Care
For More Information Contact
Banks Willis
banks.willis@ge.com
GE Healthcare
262-337-3050
May 10, 2006
WASHINGTON, DC - GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company
(NYSE: GE), today announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) clearance for the Voluson i, the world’s
first and only 4D compact ultrasound system designed specifically for
women’s healthcare, including obstetric, gynecological, and
other clinical applications. This new compact system allows
clinicians to make real-time diagnoses, particularly for high-risk
patients, by providing high-quality 4D imaging to wherever the patient
is located. The Voluson i is being showcased May 8-10 in GE
Healthcare’s booth, #1405, Hall A at the 54th Annual Clinical
Meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
(ACOG) in Washington, DC.
Voluson i will help enhance the efficiency and
reach of clinicians by offering the functionality and high performance
of a console-size ultrasound system in a portable design that weighs
slightly more than the average newborn. This
benefit, coupled with the system’s ease-of-use, enables
facilities of all sizes to offer 4D imaging as the standard of care for
prenatal women. The portability of the Voluson i also makes
it ideal for community and rural clinics, as well as mobile imaging
services. “GE’s Voluson i is a technology
breakthrough for women’s healthcare that can expand the reach
of the proven clinical benefits of 4D and volume imaging,”
said Omar Ishrak, president and CEO of GE Healthcare’s
Clinical Systems business. “The Voluson i will
support a completely new level of efficiency for OB/GYN physicians,
enabling them to deliver patient care anywhere it’s
needed.”
“With its ease of use and amazing diagnostic image
quality,
this portable ultrasound system makes it easy for me to go to the
patient to perform an ultrasound scan, rather than the reverse. The
remarkable portability this system offers will impact the care I give
my patients,” said Dr. John Hobbins, MD, Chief of Obstetrics
and Director of the Prenatal Diagnosis and Genetics Center at the
University of Colorado Health Science Center.
According to Ishrak, there is a need for more
specialized, high-quality
point of care systems to meet the growing demands for diagnosis on the
spot. “Voluson i addresses one of the biggest challenges
OB/GYN physicians face in caring for their high-risk patients
– access to complete, real-time information that allows them
to make clinical decisions at the patient’s bedside with
confidence,” said Ishrak.
The Voluson i is FDA cleared and is now commercially
available in the
United States.
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies that are
shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and
information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring
systems, performance improvement solutions, drug discovery, and
biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians
around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform and
treat disease, so their 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 $15 billion
unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare
employs more than 45,000 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.
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