GE HEALTHCARE AND ORTHOCRAT LTD JOIN FORCES TO OFFER ORTHOPEDIC TEMPLATING TO FACILITIES WORLDWIDE

BARRINGTON,IL and PETACH TIKVA, ISRAEL – May XX, 2008 – GE Healthcare IT , a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) and a global leader in healthcare information technology, has partnered with Orthocrat Ltd, a leading provider of orthopedic preoperative templating software, to introduce an orthopedic digital image management and surgical planning solution. The solution will provide a single Centricity â PACS-IW for hospitals and imaging centers, and Centricity â PACS Office-IW for physician offices offers tight connectivity to Orthocrat's TraumaCad™ software, providing Web-based, single-click access to digital orthopedic templating tools. The product will be demonstrated at the upcoming Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) 2008 Conference in Seattle , WA , May 15-18, 2008 .

“The simplicity of Web-based integration between Centricity â PACS-IW and TraumaCad™ has empowered our customers to truly leverage their PACS investment for orthopedics“ said Brad Levin, vice president of marketing, GE Healthcare IT. “Practices of all sizes and clinical mission can take advantage of this solution, and our top industry rankings are indicative of the success that these tools offer to patient care.”

The feature rich, Web-based Centricity â PACS-IW could allow orthopedic surgeons to integrate templates into clinical workflow, maintaining all images, reports and templating results in one location, as well as potentially integrated into an electronic medical record (EMR) (if available). No pre-existing TraumaCad software needs to be loaded at the location where the orthopedist requires access. Once authenticated into Centricity â PACS-IW, from any client location accessible via the Internet, the user simply needs to request the TraumaCad™ software plug-in, which is then quickly downloaded from the server.

Orthocrat's TraumaCad™ software enables orthopedic surgeons to streamline their process for planning all types of trauma, reconstructive or implant surgeries by providing ”one click” access to digital templating tools that can help them accurately measure and plan for implants needed in joint arthroplasty, deformity correction, spine and trauma surgeries.

“This is another example of success that comes from our established relationship with GE Healthcare” said Zeev Glozman , co-founder and CEO of Orthocrat Ltd. “What's exciting is that our joint effort tremendously improves clinical efficacy. With just a few mouse clicks, orthopedic surgeons can logon to Centricity â PACS-IW, plan their surgeries with embedded TraumaCad™ tools, and then save those images and data right back into the patient's folder on Centricity â PACS-IW. It's a self-contained unit that bridges the workflow gap.”

GE Healthcare will showcase Centricity â PACS-IW with integration to TraumaCad™ at SIIM 2008, Washington State Convention and Trade Center , Booth # 3325 . Orthocrat will demonstrate TraumaCad™ and other new products at SIIM 2008, Booth # 1100.

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About Orthocrat
Orthocrat was founded in 2003 by Zeev Glozman , an entrepreneur, and Dr. Doron Noman, the Deputy Director of the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology from the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa , Israel . The company's mission is to advance the orthopedic community to a 100% filmless work mode. Orthocrat's flagship software product, TraumaCad™ , enables surgeons to accurately measure implant sizes from digital images, making their surgeries more efficient and effective. TraumaCad™ has been installed in over 800 sites, including hospitals, research centers and clinics in the U.S. , Europe and Israel . For more information please see www.orthocrat.com .