GE Healthcare to showcase wide portfolio of transformational medical technologies and services at Arab Health 2007

As a gold sponsor of the Middle East Imaging and Diagnostic Congress, running concurrently with the annual Arab Health exhibition, GE Healthcare will provide medical professionals with the opportunity to learn about new techniques and diagnostic imaging applications.

"At Arab Health 2007, we are presenting our latest innovations which have the potential to help Middle East healthcare providers realize the 'early health' model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention,"

said Isam Moursy, General Manager at GE Healthcare for the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia and Turkey (MEACAT) region.

He added: "At GE Healthcare, we believe in early health and we're investing approximately US$1 billion in R&D annually. This is particularly relevant in the Middle East - a region focused on creating the necessary healthcare infrastructure and now faces healthcare concerns such as obesity, diabetes and breast cancer, all of which can be effectively regulated through early medial intervention."

GE Healthcare's global vision for the future of healthcare - "Healthcare Re-imagined" - is about early health by moving healthcare delivery to pre-symptomatic and earlier disease detection. GE Healthcare provides innovative solutions covering the spectrum of medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, disease research, drug discovery and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies - to help 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.

"Through our participation at Arab Health, a premier event that attracts visitors from around the globe, GE is looking to help clinicians transform healthcare delivery," said Moursy.

As part of its commitment to providing medical technologies that will help shape a new era in patient care, GE Healthcare is set to launch its latest range of diagnostic imaging technologies at Arab Health 2007.

"These latest innovations are tailored to meet the requirements of today's world - from both the perspective of the healthcare provider as well as the patients. GE Healthcare believes that to take healthcare into the future, we don't have to wait for technologies that will be available in 2025. We need only look at the technologies and contemporary management processes we have today, and act," added Moursy.

GE will also take part in a series of workshops to be held concurrently to the exhibition.

Arab Health is the annual international hospital, medical equipment and services exhibition and conference. GE Healthcare's products can be seen on the company stand (Hall 4 - Stand D20) at the exhibition in the Dubai International Exhibition Centre.