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GE Healthcare Centricity PACS Alternatives and What a GE PACS System Costs

The short answer

GE Healthcare Centricity PACS is the legacy GE radiology PACS, alongside PACS-IW and Universal Viewer. GE now also sells True PACS and, since March 2026, owns Intelerad. FDA lists 55 recall events for these products since 2007, and federal GE PACS awards have a $44,312 median. The alternatives are a new PACS, or keeping Centricity and adding AI to the read.

Search for GE PACS and almost every result is GE HealthCare selling its own next product. There is no independent comparison, and the buyer usually arrives with a renewal notice or a True PACS proposal on the desk. This page is for a hospital or health system imaging IT lead running Centricity PACS, PACS-IW or Universal Viewer who has to decide whether to stay with GE, move to another PACS, or keep the PACS and fix the read. Every figure comes from a public record we can point to.

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Worklist

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Structured report

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Run the assistant to draft this report for review.

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Decision support. The radiologist reviews and signs every study.

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GE HealthCare sells the imaging platform: Centricity PACS, PACS-IW, Universal Viewer, True PACS, Enterprise Archive, AI orchestration and now Intelerad. Radiological.ai sells none of that. It is an assistant that works alongside the PACS you already run, flags suspected findings as studies arrive, reorders the worklist and drafts the structured report for the radiologist to sign. You would replace Centricity with another PACS. You would add us to Centricity.

Side by side

GE Centricity PACS against the PACS on a hospital shortlist

The choices a Centricity site is usually weighing at renewal. Every row is a published fact or a public record, not a benchmark we ran.

What to compare	GE Centricity PACS and True PACS	Other PACS (Sectra, Fujifilm Synapse, Visage, Intelerad)
Who owns it	GE HealthCare (Nasdaq GEHC since January 4, 2023, Chicago). PACS-IW came from Dynamic Imaging, bought October 2007.	Sectra (Sweden, listed), Fujifilm (Japan), Visage (Pro Medicus, Australia). Intelerad has been part of GE HealthCare since March 18, 2026.
Product lines	Centricity PACS, Centricity PACS-IW, Universal Viewer with a zero footprint client, and True PACS (launched August 2021) built on Universal Viewer and Enterprise Archive.	Each sells one main PACS line. Intelerad sells IntelePACS, InteleOne and Ambra.
Cloud option	True PACS SaaS listed on AWS Marketplace September 23, 2025, US only.	Sectra One Cloud, Fujifilm Synapse on AWS, Visage 7 hosted, Intelerad cloud.
Newest FDA 510(k) for the viewer	K211312 Universal Viewer, May 21, 2021. 16 radiology PACS and viewer clearances since 2002. No 510(k) under the True PACS name.	Fujifilm K261713 Synapse PACS 7.6.0 (June 2026). Intelerad latest K192176 (2020).
FDA recalls	55 recall events since 2007 across Centricity PACS, PACS-IW and Universal Viewer, all Class II where classified, 31 product entries still open.	Intelerad 4 open (September 2026). Check each vendor in the openFDA recall database.
Independent record	KLAS PACS 2023: high replacement rate, users call Centricity aging. KLAS 2025: negative momentum.	Sectra has been Best in KLAS for US PACS for 13 years.
Where it wins	One vendor for scanners, PACS, archive and AI orchestration, and an install base GE still supports.	Sectra on user satisfaction, Visage on speed for large health systems, Fujifilm on breadth.
Switching cost	Staying avoids a migration, but a move to True PACS is still a project.	High. Priors migration, interfaces and training. Budget it as its own line.

GE facts come from gehealthcare.com, GE HealthCare press releases and SEC filings, AuntMinnie and the public KLAS report summaries, collected October 1, 2026. FDA data is from the openFDA 510(k) and recall databases. Federal award data is from USAspending.gov, award types A to D, fiscal 2008 to 2026, every recipient name and description read by hand.

What the public record shows

What federal buyers paid GE for PACS

GE publishes no PACS price, so we read every federal award that names GE PACS or Centricity. These are support, maintenance and license lines, the part of a GE quote that renews every year.

Group of awards	Count and value	What it tells a buyer
GE PACS awards	43 awards, $4,584,359	The cleanest set: a GE recipient and a description that names PACS.
Typical award	Median $44,312	Quartiles $7,500 and $124,135. Most lines are annual software maintenance or support.
Largest award	$1,259,247 (VA, July 2020)	Maintenance and repair services for GE PACS equipment. The next largest is $459,383 for Centricity PACS software maintenance (VA, October 2013).
By agency	VA 25 awards $3.90M, IHS 13 $533K	NIH 2 awards $144K, Navy 3 $12K. The VA carries most of the GE PACS spend.
A documented move away	$12,012 (IHS, March 2015)	A third party paid to migrate the Kayenta Health Center off GE Centricity PACS. Migration is a separate line, often a separate vendor.

Source: USAspending.gov prime awards to GE recipients whose description names PACS or Centricity PACS, award types A to D, fiscal 2008 to 2026, pulled October 1, 2026. 116 rows read by hand. Excluded: 17 rows for Centricity Technology Partners (a different company), dental Universal Viewer products, GE cardiology and perinatal systems, and 10 VA data migration rows paid to unrelated firms.

Side by side

Radiological.ai vs GE Centricity PACS, honestly

A fair look at what each does well. Both are capable tools. Here is where they differ.

What matters	Radiological.ai	GE Centricity PACS
What you are buying	Software that flags suspected findings on the image, prioritizes the worklist and drafts the structured report.	The PACS: Centricity PACS, PACS-IW or True PACS, with Universal Viewer, Enterprise Archive and AI orchestration.
Relationship to your PACS	Works alongside it. It reads from the PACS you already run, Centricity included.	It is the PACS. A move to True PACS or another vendor replaces what you have.
Unit of cost	Per reading radiologist, published: $399 a month on the Practice plan or $199 a month billed annually, and $598 a month on the Group plan or $299 a month billed annually.	Unpublished. Quote based. Federal GE PACS support awards have a $44,312 median.
Project size	Days to weeks. No image migration.	Months. Priors migration, interfaces, archive and training.
Who signs the report	The radiologist. The assistant never signs anything.	The radiologist, in whichever reporting system you run with the PACS.
Best suited for	Centricity sites whose radiologists need more studies read per hour before the PACS decision is made.	Health systems that want scanners, PACS, archive and AI orchestration from one vendor.

Comparison reflects general, publicly understood positioning. Capabilities change, so check each product for the latest.

This page covers one PACS vendor. For the category, PACS software separates the deployment models, and PACS pricing and cloud PACS cost benchmarks quotes against federal PACS awards and lists the line items every quote bundles. If the Centricity RIS is up for renewal at the same time, radiology information system software compares RIS vendors for hospitals and imaging centers.

If a hospital PACS is on your shortlist, Sectra PACS alternatives, Fujifilm Synapse PACS alternatives and Visage PACS alternatives work through those quotes the same way, and Intelerad PACS alternatives covers the other PACS GE now owns. If you also run Philips or Carestream, Vue PACS alternatives covers that renewal, and Agfa PACS system alternatives covers IMPAX and Enterprise Imaging. McKesson Radiology and Change Healthcare sites have McKesson PACS system alternatives, and Philips iSite sites have IntelliSpace PACS alternatives. For enterprise scope, see enterprise imaging software.

If the PACS is fine for now and the real ask is AI, how the assistant integrates with your PACS explains what connects to what, radiology worklist prioritization covers the triage side, and our pricing is published per radiologist.

Why groups pick Radiological.ai

One assistant across the whole read

Ask GE which PACS it will invest in

GE now owns Centricity, True PACS and Intelerad. Ask in writing which line gets new features through the end of your next term, and whether a move from Centricity to True PACS is priced as an upgrade credit or a new contract.

Read the open recalls first

openFDA lists 31 Centricity PACS, PACS-IW and Universal Viewer recall entries still open, including a July 2026 recall where migrated historical data from Centricity PACS V2 to V7 was linked to the wrong record. Ask which ones apply to your version and when the fix lands.

Price migration as its own line

Federal records show PACS migration paid to third parties, separate from the PACS license. Whether you stay with GE or leave, get the export format, timeline and price into the contract while you still have leverage.

Separate the PACS decision from the AI decision

If your radiologists are short on time today, you do not have to wait for a PACS replacement. An assistant that reads from Centricity flags suspected findings and drafts the report now. Every flag is a prompt to look again and the radiologist signs every report.

Good questions

GE Centricity PACS vs Radiological.ai, answered

We found no public end-of-life or end-of-support notice for Centricity PACS, PACS-IW or Universal Viewer, and GE added AI orchestration to Centricity PACS in October 2024. GE is steering new sales toward True PACS, though, and now owns Intelerad too, so ask your account team for the support end date in writing.

Centricity PACS is GE's long-running radiology PACS. True PACS, launched in August 2021, is GE's newer package built on Universal Viewer, Enterprise Archive, the zero footprint viewer and an AI orchestrator with third-party AI apps. True PACS is offered on premises or as SaaS on AWS in the US.

GE does not publish PACS prices. Federal records give a floor for the recurring side: 43 GE PACS awards totaling $4,584,359, with a median of $44,312, mostly software maintenance and support. A new enterprise PACS adds licenses, archive, hardware or hosting, interfaces and migration on top.

openFDA lists 55 recall events from January 2007 to July 2026 across Centricity PACS, PACS-IW and Universal Viewer. Every classified entry is Class II, none is Class I, and 31 product entries were still open in October 2026. Recent ones cover image display, measurements, mismatched patient data and cybersecurity.

Yes. GE HealthCare announced the $2.3 billion cash purchase of Intelerad on November 20, 2025 and closed it on March 18, 2026. Intelerad runs inside GE's Imaging business, which means GE now sells three PACS lines: Centricity, True PACS and Intelerad.

Hospitals replacing Centricity most often look at Sectra, Fujifilm Synapse, Visage and Philips, with Intelerad, Merge and INFINITT on smaller shortlists. The other alternative is to keep Centricity for now and add an AI assistant that reads from it, which avoids a migration while the PACS decision is made.

Yes. An assistant receives studies from Centricity over standard DICOM and sends results back to the worklist. Radiologists keep reading in the GE viewer, and the assistant adds flags on suspected findings, puts urgent studies first and drafts the structured report that the radiologist signs.

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One assistant that flags suspected findings, prioritizes the worklist, and drafts the structured report on X-ray, CT and MRI. You review and sign every study.

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Decision support for qualified clinicians. Radiological.ai does not provide a diagnosis and is not a substitute for professional medical judgment.