GE Healthcare Launches, Installs New Perinatal Software
By Laurent Rotival, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Solutions
Software Provides Enhanced Tools for Clinicians, Opportunity for Better Outcomes
BARRINGTON, Ill. (November 6, 2007) – GE Healthcare, a leading provider of clinical, financial and administrative information technology solutions, today announced the release of Centricity Perinatal 6.80, a clinician software package that combines the company’s long-time expertise in Labor & Delivery with enhancements to its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) capability, currently installed at UPMC Bedford Memorial Hospital and Fairview Hospital.
“CPN 6.80 further enhances patient safety by improving prenatal data availability and offering clinicians a tool with Alerts & Reminders to assist them in their pursuit of care excellence, France Pitera, General Manager, Specialty Care Businesses for GE Healthcare. “Together that means the great possibility of a bright future for the littlest among us.”
Additionally, the new version alerts clinicians of site-specific protocols and practices at the bedside to enable a fast response to patient events that can potentially improve outcomes.
“We customized our system by adding reminders for the staff to capture required data and necessary procedures for a study in which we are participating – learning the impact of cardiac disease in pregnancy,” said Terry McDaniel, Perinatal System Administrator at Fairview Hospital. “The Alerts & Reminders feature of CPN 6.80 makes capturing the data easy and complete.”
Other key enhancements to Centricity Perinatal (CPN) 6.80 include:
- Decision support – In addition to the Alerts & Reminders feature, the program includes Zynx ObstetricCare™ Links, which provides clinicians with a rich database of evidenced-based Perinatal medicine for reference.
- Completing the Perinatal circle – The Perinatal Continuum of Care makes prenatal data from GE Healthcare’s Centricity Electronic Medical Record (EMR) located in many private practice environments, available in Centricity Perinatal at the hospital, and closes the loop by sending a delivery summary back to Centricity EMR in the office.
- Enhanced level of care for the NICU – As the percentage of babies arriving in NICU continues to rise, CPN 6.80 helps to foster their development with enhanced NICU-specific capabilities, including: Mother-Baby Link, which automatically populates the infant’s record with relevant maternal and delivery information; NICU Chalkboards, a quick, dynamically-updated unit overview for a simple, yet comprehensive view that can be customized for a variety of purposes; and Advanced Reporting, which generates data that facilitates benchmarking specific to a particular care initiative to enhance unit performance.
- Consulting and educational prowess – More than 60 new consulting and educational offerings bring more than 15 years of experience in perinatal care to help leverage an already beneficial healthcare tool.
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