GE celebrates with HP more than 20 billion cumulative transactions on Healthcare IT Platform

As an integrated healthcare IT platform, GE and HP power a leading share of the world's top ranked healthcare systems, a cumulative 10,000 industry-wide transactions per minute, and has achieved a decade of 99.8 per cent reliability in high performance care.

As an effort to expand the strength of Digital Day One to the Middle East, GE and HP recently released a platform running on Integrity NonStop BladeSystem servers, enabling customers to continue this level of performance while consolidating their healthcare IT infrastructure for simplified management and lower cost of ownership. The joint solution is the centerpiece of GE Healthcare's new Digital Day One Initiative, which will help new hospitals in emerging markets open their doors with advanced healthcare IT capabilities that once were only available to established hospitals.

Additionally, GE's Digital Day One will provide a new "Fast Track" version of Centricity Enterprise software that is pre-tailored and configured for faster deployment, and was recently deployed in a Qatar-based facility in under six months. The new HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystem will run this software and other complementary applications for the hospital to enable a consolidated, simplified IT infrastructure that customers can have on premise or hosted from their application service provider of choice. HP and GE Healthcare will offer a variety of deployment, tailoring, and management services.

"The 20 billion transaction milestone confirms what our joint customers have always known, that HP and GE Healthcare provide an unbeatable combination of price, performance, and capability. This kind of track record is the reason so many of the worlds' leading healthcare providers have chosen the HP + GE solution,"

said Laurent Rotival, Senior Vice President of GE Healthcare's Enterprise Division.

"As we march ahead to the next 20 billion transaction milestone, we are focusing our energy on making this power accessible to thousands of new hospitals that will open in emerging markets so they can truly be Digital from Day One."

"Healthcare organizations want to lower costs, speed innovation into practice, operate more efficiently and improve the quality of care. For more than three decades, HP NonStop technology has helped over 200 hospitals and healthcare providers, many of the world's largest teaching hospitals, and the largest U.S. pharmaceutical benefits company achieve these business outcomes from their technology environment," said Winston Prather, vice president HP NonStop Enterprise Division. "The combination of HP NonStop systems and GE Healthcare, through the Digital Day One Initiative, helps make this power accessible to even the smallest of new hospitals in emerging geographies."

By combining the economies of standards based, modular computing with the trusted 24/7 fault-tolerant availability and data integrity of the NonStop architecture, the new HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem doubles performance in half the footprint for lower per-transaction cost. It delivers up to twice as much processing power per unit of floor space within the same power envelope. This new system began shipping to customers in mid 2008 and Centricity Enterprise was one of the first software applications certified to run on the system.

For over 20 years, the two companies have optimized GE Centricity Enterprise Software and HP NonStop systems for the world's leading healthcare providers, ensuring higher efficiency and greater than 99.98% reliability, a critical component for physicians and nurses in a variety of healthcare scenarios.