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Today GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt spoke at the United States Military Academy at West Point, focusing on the need for leaders who have the courage to change themselves and others if the country is to realize a better economic future after the seismic changes of the last year. And it’s precisely West Point’s values of “Duty, Honor, and Country” and its commitment to integrity, performance and change that “every person in the United States — from business and from government — can learn from,” he said.

GE’s drive to miniaturize technologies in order to make them more mobile couldn’t be better illustrated than with the breakthrough Vscan technology that GE’s Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt unveiled during his talk tonight at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Roughly the size of a smart phone, it houses powerful ultrasound technology that can potentially redefine the way doctors examine patients. By giving doctors a view into the body from the palm of a hand, GE believes that Vscan could one day become as indispensable as the traditional physician’s stethoscope in patient exams.

During his speech tonight at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt is unveiling a potentially game-changing computerized system that will give real-time clinical data and treatment options to doctors — right at a patient’s side. Developed using three decades of clinical information from the Intermountain Healthcare system of hospitals, it provides doctors faster access to current research. In the audio clip below, Dr. Graham Hughes, who is Chief Medical Officer & Vice President of Product Strategy for GE Healthcare’s Enterprise IT Solutions division, provides a walkthrough of what doctors would see. Click on the full screen button at the bottom right of the player to enlarge it.

Joined by New York Governor David Paterson, GE’s chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt is announcing a major economic development project this morning for upstate New York that will bring green jobs to the capital area. His remarks and the press conference that follows are available here on GE Reports via a live webcast at 10 a.m. EST.

In his annual letter to shareholders, Jeff Immelt outlines GE’s accomplishments in 2008 and the actions we are taking in 2009 to succeed. “We have built a foundation that can weather this economic storm,” Jeff writes. “I think this environment presents an opportunity of a lifetime. We get a chance to reset the core of GE and focus on what we do best… GE will be a better company winning through this crisis.”