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GE Medical Systems wins Product Differentiation Innovation Award 2003 for Centricity^TM PACS 2.0

GE Medical Systems has been awarded the Product Differentiation Innovation award for its adoption of breakthrough technology in its Centricity PACS family. Centricity™ PACS 2.0 is an enterprise-wide solution with expanded capabilities designed to allow more efficient management of clinical images across the entire healthcare enterprise. GE Centricity PACS 2.0 will include the integration of Centricity Web with GE's advanced non-invasive cardiology information system, MUSE©. This application will provide referring physicians with a single view of radiology and cardiology images, reports and waveforms within the same digital patient folder.

Centricity is designed to help hospitals cope with the challenges of managing large data sets from new diagnostic imaging devices, such as 16-slice CT and high-speed MR scanners, which can produce megabytes of images in a single exam. Centricity's integrated web distribution system is designed for enhanced speed of image distribution to efficiently deliver large and complex radiology and cardiology image sets. Centricity Web is intended to interface with a range of clinical information systems, including the electronic medical record (EMR).This will enable clinicians to access a complete patient medical history, including images, in a single view.

This technological innovation has demonstrated GE Medical Systems' ability to advance an existing product with more innovative capabilities.

Frost & Sullivan believes that this technological innovation will have an important bearing on the future developments towards the enterprise information management systems including the electronic patient record and predicts that GE Medical Systems will increase market share by using product differentiation to benefit end-users.

About the Frost & Sullivan Product Differentiation Innovation Award
Award Description
The Frost & Sullivan Product Differentiation Innovation Award is presented each year to the company that has best demonstrated the ability to develop and/or advance products with more innovative capabilities than competing vendors and products. This award recognizes the company's successful adoption of new or existing technology that has become a part of its well-designed product family. Such innovation is expected to significantly contribute to the industry in terms of product performance and degree/rate of technical change.

Research Methodology
Before considering the recipient of this award, the analyst team tracks competing market participants' product differentiation strategies through ongoing research. This research consists of market participant interviews, end-user surveys, and extensive secondary research. The data compiled through this research is analyzed based upon specific measurement criteria for this award. Participants are then ranked with respect to the measurement criteria. The award recipient is ranked number one in the industry.

Measurement Criteria
In addition to the methodology described above, there are specific criteria used in determining the final ranking of industry competitors. The recipient of this award has excelled based on one or more of the following criteria:

Degree of differentiation innovation compared to other market participants
Positive impact on sales directly related to product differentiation
Time to market improvement based upon product differentiation strategy
Benefit to end-users due to product differentiation
Effect of product differentiation on ease of adaptability for new end-user applications
Effect of product differentiation on market maturation

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Tuesday, 04 January 2005