GE Healthcare announced today a long-term agreement with Biosense Webster, Inc., in which the companies will co-distribute their leading electrophysiology (EP) systems -- including GE's CardioLab* EP Recording Systems and Biosense Webster's CARTO® 3 navigation system -- in the United States, and will collaborate to enhance the functional integration of their recording, imaging and 3D mapping systems.

"GE Healthcare is committed to becoming a total EP lab solution provider as we work to meet the clinical and workflow needs of electrophysiologists. The arrangement with Biosense Webster moves GE Healthcare closer to realizing that vision by enabling us to provide our U.S. customers with a more comprehensive portfolio of EP products than any single company can provide," said Jean-Michel Milles, General Manager of Interventional Electrophysiology, GE Healthcare.

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CARTO® is a trademark of Biosense Webster, Inc.

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