High Efficiency Women's Health Ultrasound Systems
GE Healthcare’s High Efficiency Women’s Health Ultrasound systems reduce energy consumption, enhance image acquisition and quality, and improve productivity through reduced scan time compared to prior GE technology.
Environmental Benefits
GE Healthcare's High Efficiency Women's Health Ultrasound systems are among the most energy efficient in the industry. For hospitals that are actively addressing facility energy use, upgrading 4 previous generation GE ultrasound systems out of their existing fleet to GE's High Efficiency Voluson E6, Voluson Signature series or Voluson Compact series ultrasound systems can save more than 22 MWh in electricity consumption over 8 years of use, avoiding approximately 13 metric tons of CO2 emissions on the US grid. This is equivalent to the annual CO2 emissions of approximately 3 cars on US roads or the CO2 absorbed by about 4 acres of southeastern US forest each year.Using EU industry-developed power consumption testing standards:
Voluson E6: consumes 247 kWh, or 19%, less electricity per year, while enhancing image acquisition and quality compared to the previous generation GE system it replaces.
Voluson Signature series 8: consumes 710 kWh, or 56%, less electricity per year, while enhancing image acquisition and quality compared to the previous generation GE system it replaces.
Voluson Signature series 6: Voluson Signature series 6 consumes 823 kWh, or 65%, less electricity per year, while enhancing image acquisition and quality compared to the previous generation GE system it replaces.
Voluson Compact series: consumes 1185 kWh, or 93%, less electricity per year, while enhancing image acquisition and quality compared to the previous generation of GE systems they replace.
