(EMAILWIRE.COM, August 08, 2009 ) SAN DIEGO, CA – The Association for Services Management International (AFSMI), the largest and most influential association in the field services space, has welcomed GE Healthcare to its growing membership community. AFSMI is internationally recognized for its 34 years of experience in delivering service industry research, training, and education programs, and industry events.

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. GE’s expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping 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.

GE Healthcare has joined AFSMI to obtain the benefits of benchmarking, collaboration, and research that only AFSMI can provide. As AFSMI continues to build out the medical technology market segment of its membership base, GE healthcare is looking forward to becoming a key contributor to the development of deliverables to the community.

“This is a significant addition to the AFSMI community,” said J.B. Wood, president and CEO of AFSMI. “GE Healthcare comes to us at an exciting time as we launch our ‘Med Tech’ initiative. We look forward to growing our relationship with GE as we work together to further advance the medical technology services industry.”

About AFSMI
Founded in 1975, the Association for Services Management International (AFSMI) is the global leader in helping service professionals and field services organizations deliver more value for their customers. AFSMI is a member of a global network of associations that includes the Service & Support Professionals Association (SSPA) and the Technology Professional Services Association (TPSA). www.afsmi.com.

About GE Healthcare
Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company. GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases, and other conditions earlier. The company’s vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection, and disease prevention. www.gehealthcare.com.

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