GE HealthCare Expands Vivid Cardiovascular Ultrasound Portfolio with Three New Systems
GE HealthCare has announced three additions to its Vivid cardiovascular ultrasound portfolio — Vivid Explorer, Vivid Advanced, and Vivid Focus — each designed to address distinct imaging and workflow needs across a range of cardiology care settings. The three new Vivid systems join the ultra-premium Vivid Pioneer, broadening the portfolio and bringing Vivid’s image quality, workflow, and familiar user interface to further support settings where cardiovascular care happens.
All three new systems use cSound, the software-based imaging architecture shared across the Vivid portfolio, designed to help optimize contrast, resolution, and tissue visualization through advanced processing. The systems also include AI-enabled and automation tools designed to streamline routine echo workflows and support consistency across users and exam types, including AI Auto Measure 2D, Easy AutoEF, Easy AFI LV, and AI Cardiac Auto Doppler. A familiar Vivid interface and adjustable ergonomics support workflow continuity across systems.
The latest version of EchoPAC Software Only v211 introduces the same new capabilities available across the new Vivid systems, enabling clinicians to review, analyze, and quantify studies on-site or remotely using consistent tools and workflows. At ESC 2026, GE HealthCare will feature the Vivid family as a key part of its cardiology solutions spanning ECG, ultrasound, advanced imaging, image-guidance, recording, and cardiovascular reporting. Vivid Explorer, Vivid Advanced, and Vivid Focus have received CE Mark and are U.S. FDA 510(k) pending, not yet available for sale in the United States. EchoPAC Software Only v211 is also 510(k) pending with the U.S. FDA.
The number of people living with cardiovascular disease worldwide has doubled since 1991, and as cardiovascular care spans routine echocardiography, complex diagnostic assessments, and image-guided procedures, care teams need technology that can support different clinical environments while providing a consistent imaging and user experience. Jyoti Gera, CEO of CardioVascular and Interventional Solutions within Advanced Imaging Solutions at GE HealthCare, said the imaging needs of an echo lab, a cardiology practice, and an interventional environment are not the same, and the company has spent time with care teams in each setting to understand where technology can make the greatest difference. Gera noted that developing the new systems on the same foundation as Vivid Pioneer allows GE HealthCare to meet unique needs while creating a more connected family of systems that deliver Vivid performance and the Vivid experience.
