GE Healthcare And Intermountain Health Care Announce First Joint Project To Reduce Medical Errors; New Research Center In Utah To Create Electronic Patient Record Accessible To Patients’ Entire ''Care Team’’

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 6, 2005-- Announcement kicks off landmark collaboration between GE and IHC to provide the country’s most wide-reaching healthcare IT system GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), and Intermountain Health Care (IHC), the nation’s top integrated health care system, today announced the organizations’ first joint project aimed at preventing adverse drug events and increasing patient safety. GE and IHC will work together on the development of a new advanced electronic medication administration record, also known as an eMAR, which will better enable collaboration among a patient’s care team - anyone who touches the patient and sees to their care.