GE Healthcare and the conglomerate’s financing arm, GE Capital, launched a $100 million program aimed at accelerating adoption of its suite of electronic medical records products.

Aimed to bridge the gap between opting for EMR and receiving a chunk of the $20 billion earmarked for EMR in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (which won’t start paying out until 2011), the program will offer interest-free, deferred-payment loans to doctors’ offices that sign on to use GE’s Centricity EMR and Centricity Enterprise solutions.

It’s all part of the Connecticut conglomerate’s $6 billion “Healthymagination” program aimed at boosting access, affordability and the quality of healthcare — and at revolutionizing the medical device market.