General Electric has many different businesses contained in its six reporting segments: Infrastructure, Commercial Finance, GE Money, Healthcare, NBC Universal and Industrial.

"Healthcare (9.8%, 10.9% and 11.0% of consolidated revenues in 2007, 2006 and 2005, respectively) has expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, disease research, drug discovery and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies. We are dedicated to predicting and detecting disease earlier, monitoring its progress and informing physicians, helping them to tailor individual treatment for individual patients. Healthcare manufactures, sells and services a wide range of medical equipment: diagnostic imaging systems including equipment for magnetic resonance (MR), computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), nuclear and X-ray imaging. Clinical systems including patient monitoring, diagnostic cardiology, ultrasound, bone densitometry, anesthesiology and oxygen therapy, neonatal and critical care devices. Medical diagnostics and life sciences products include diagnostic imaging agents used in medical scanning procedures, protein separation products including chromatography purification systems used in the manufacturing of bio-pharmaceuticals, and high-throughput systems for applications in genomics, proteomics and bioassays."

"During 2006, we acquired IDX Systems Corporation, a leading healthcare information technology provider and Biacore International AB, a leading provider of systems for protein interaction analysis. We sell products and product services to hospitals, medical facilities, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and to the life science research market worldwide. Our product services include remote diagnostic and repair services for medical equipment manufactured by GE and by others, as well as computerized data management and customer productivity services."