GE Healthcare IT Joins With Ormed To Deliver Complete Hospital Information System

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Article Date: 20 Aug 2008 - 16:00 PDT

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GE Healthcare IT, leading provider of healthcare information technology, announced a global reseller agreement with Ormed Information Systems. The agreement will allow GE to resell select applications across the Ormed portfolio, including supply chain management, e-commerce, human resources, and general accounting software.

"We're excited at the opportunity to give healthcare providers integrated access to the best-of-breed solutions of two leading providers," said Chris Sherback, President and CEO, Ormed Information Systems. "Ormed solutions complement GE Healthcare IT's solutions to provide customers with the efficiency, convenience, and confidence of implementing a total solution from a single vendor."

"Delivering high performance, reliability, and great value to our customers is at the center of everything we do," said Laurent Rotival, Vice President and General Manager, GE Healthcare IT. "Today's announcement will provide customers with the ability to enhance their existing centricity platform with applications that complement GE Healthcare's revenue cycle management solution and that help us deliver end-to-end financial management to our customers."

Exclusively developed for healthcare, ORMED MIS software and ORMED X e-commerce solutions streamline the business of healthcare. By automating and integrating business processes in finance, business intelligence, supply chain, and hr/payroll, Ormed solutions facilitate optimal workflow and tighter financial control to increase efficiency and reduce costs.

The agreement will also provide GE Healthcare and Ormed the ability to leverage shared distribution channels.

About Ormed Information Systems Ltd.

Ormed Information Systems is a leading provider of integrated, automated MIS software and e-commerce solutions that streamline business processes in healthcare. By re-engineering traditionally inefficient, manual, paper-heavy processes in finance, business intelligence, the supply chain, and hr/payroll, Ormed solutions support best practices that result in higher levels of efficiency, financial control, and profitability.

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). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries.

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