GE Healthcare Introduces CARESCAPE Telemetry Platform for Wireless Patient Monitoring

WAUKESHA, Wis., Apr 03, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
WLTG | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- GE Healthcare introduced today its new CARESCAPE(TM) Telemetry platform, a
wireless patient monitoring offering for hospitals. Built on GE
CARESCAPE Enterprise Access(TM) and leveraging GE ApexPro(R) CH Telemetry, GE
CARESCAPE telemetry enables hospitals to simultaneously leverage
multiple telemetry frequencies and coordinate cell phone, Wi-Fi and
other wireless technologies on one infrastructure.

The new CARESCAPE Telemetry offering consists of a seamless integration
between ApexPro CH Transmitter, CARESCAPE Enterprise Access, CARESCAPE
Telemetry Server, CARESCAPE T14 Transmitter and other components of an
ApexPro Telemetry System. It provides dual-band capabilities enabling
hospitals to simultaneously leverage the two protected frequency bands--
600 MHz and 1.4 GHz -- in Wireless Medical Telemetry Service (WMTS) with
a single, central telemetry system. Hospitals can monitor up to 438
patients while ensuring that critical patient data is sent securely
without interference. Hospitals using GE Healthcare ApexPro CH telemetry
transmitters have the flexibility to leverage the existing 600 MHz
frequency band transmitters and expand into the 1.4 GHz frequency band
with the CARESCAPE Telemetry T14 Transmitter on CARESCAPE Enterprise
Access. Powered by MobileAccess and its Wire-it-Once infrastructure,
CARESCAPE Enterprise Access seamlessly unites hospital wireless networks
into one infrastructure, helping to eliminate coverage drop-out and
downtime. As a hospital's wireless needs grow, this Wire-it-Once
infrastructure can help reduce the costs and infection-control issues
associated with installing new cables and antennas.

"At Brigham and Women's, getting patients ambulating as soon as
possible, and safely, is one of the hospital's core clinical focuses to
help improve patient outcomes and potentially reduce lengths of stay.
Wireless patient monitoring, enabled with a robust telemetry
infrastructure, is a key technology tool that helps us achieve this
goal," said L. Michael Fraai, Director, Biomedical Engineering, Brigham
and Women's Hospital. "We are providing telemetry coverage and ensuring
continuity of patient monitoring anywhere in the facility so that our
patients can ambulate faster and clinicians can monitor patient vital
signs."

"Today, as hospitals are treating sicker patients, clinicians want the
flexibility to wirelessly monitor a growing number of patients
throughout the continuum of care," said David Ataide, Vice President and
General Manager of GE Healthcare Monitoring Solutions and Diagnostic
Cardiology. "With the GE CARESCAPE telemetry solution, hospitals can
further expand telemetry coverage throughout the hospital, allowing
clinicians to monitor more patients and further enhance patient safety."

The CARESCAPE portfolio of telemetry products consists of the following
important features:

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Parameter excellence: Atrial fibrillation trending helps
improve and speed clinical decision making by providing a visual
display of the current state, duration and frequency of a patient's
atrial fibrillation events. Clinicians can also adjust ST segment
alarms (ECG wave forms) to reduce nuisance alarms and standardize
telemetry with the capabilities and functionality of GE bedside
monitors.

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Remote servicing and updates: CARESCAPE Telemetry can be
remotely serviced to help improve hospital efficiency and reduce
downtime.

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New reporting capabilities: Enhanced reporting capabilities to
help improve and facilitate clinician and hospital reporting
requirements.

The new CARESCAPE Telemetry platform works seamlessly with CARESCAPE CIC
Pro Clinical Information Center, which assimilates real-time and
historic patient data from multiple monitoring sources for
central-station caregivers. This technology integration helps clinicians
view near-real time data from telemetry and other clinical sources for a
single patient, or up to 16 patients per display.

This latest CARESCAPE telemetry offering is the newest addition to the
GE CARESCAPE portfolio, an integrated suite of patient monitoring
devices, communications networks and IT systems designed to transform
traditional patient monitoring data into clinical intelligence, enabling
clinicians to make critical healthcare decisions faster and more
efficiently. By providing easy access to quality patient information
from any device--wireless, desktop or bedside--GE Healthcare is providing
clinicians with the opportunity to act earlier in the care process to
preserve and help improve patient care, while helping clinicians improve
productivity. Additional information about the CARESCAPE portfolio and
GE Healthcare's approach to patient monitoring can be viewed at www.gehealthcare.com.

ABOUT GE HEALTHCARE

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 | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating). 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.

SOURCE: GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare 
Autumn Latimore, 414-721-4013 
Cell: 262-497-2753 
Autumn.Latimore@med.ge.com

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