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 GE and Intel to Form Healthcare Alliance
With a dramatic increase of people with chronic conditions and an aging population worldwide, there is a need to extend care from the hospital to the home. As such, GE and Intel Corporation recently announced an alliance to market and develop telehealth and home health monitoring technologies that will help senior citizens live independently and patients with chronic conditions manage their care from the comfort of their home or wherever they choose. The market for telehealth and home health monitoring is predicted to grow from $3 billion in 2009 to an estimated $7.7 billion by 2012. In addition to selling and marketing the Intel® Health Guide, a care management tool designed for healthcare professionals who manage patients with chronic conditions, GE Healthcare will also commit together with Intel, an investment worth $250 million over the next five years for the research and product development of home-based health technologies.
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 GE Healthcare Launches New Age of Digital Healthcare Initiatives in Asia
GE Healthcare IT’s Vice President and General Manager (Asia Pacific) Clarence Wu says: “This is an exciting time for us especially in the Asia region. There is a strong acceleration by emerging countries towards digitization.” And despite the downturn, Wu adds that GE Healthcare IT is seeing definite investments by governments in the public medical sector and that private healthcare in countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, and Korea are also demonstrating considerable interest in medical IT solutions.
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 Japan: Shizuoka General Hospital Realizes Vision for Centre of Excellence, Achieves Patient Centric Approach with Implementation of GE Centricity Cardiovascular IT
GE Healthcare has announced that Shizuoka General Hospital (Shizuoka, Japan), has gone live with Centricity Cardiology Xi2 as a critical component of the hospital’s new cardiovascular centre of excellence, Shizuoka General Hospital Heart Centre. By providing a comprehensive, integrated solution, Centricity Cardiology Xi2 will enable clinicians to collect, review and access any data for any patient in a single system, resulting in more confident and immediate clinical decision-making.
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 GE And Qatar Foundation To Form Partnership For Healthcare Technology Development
GE, and Qatar Foundation recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to create a partnership covering a range of healthcare business and research initiatives. Building on GE’s strong existing partnership with Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP), Qatar Foundation’s research accelerator, the parties now plan to develop and deliver next-generation healthcare technologies and build local research and development capabilities aligned with regional and global healthcare needs.
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GE Healthcare And HCL Take Leadership Position By Forming A Comprehensive Healthcare It Partnership
GE Healthcare has announced a structured partnership to enable service offerings for all aspects of their healthcare IT lifecycle – planning, deployment, customization, and ongoing maintenance. Through the partnership, GE Healthcare will certify HCL on its core healthcare IT offering Centricity Enterprise and integrate HCL into its Digital Day One effort which helps new hospitals in emerging markets open their doors as fully digital hospitals. Already the two companies are already ramping up HCL staff on Centricity Enterprise and related GE Healthcare IT offerings in preparation for certification and in-market customer engagement. |
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 GE Healthcare At HIMSS09 Chicago
The HIMSS09 annual conference and exhibition was held at McCormick Place, Chicago from 4th - 8th April 2009. As a corporate sponsor of the prestigious event, GE Healthcare was also on hand at the exhibition at Booth #3619 to showcase our latest healthcare IT solutions as well as chair a key presentation in the Interoperability Showcase segment of the event.
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Southwestern Ontario Digital Imaging Network Goes Live With Centricity Oneview And Enterprise Archive
GE Healthcare recently announced today the successful implementation of a Digital Imaging Repository (DI-r) that connects hospitals and medical centres throughout Southwestern Ontario (SWO) Canada. By providing clinicians a longitudinal patient view through GE’s Centricity OneView, the project aligns with the Canada Health Infoway (CHI) and eHealth Ontario initiatives to create a pan-Province and, eventually, pan-Canadian Electronic Health Record (EHR). |
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Virtua Medical Group Selects GE Healthcare For Hosted Revenue Cycle Management Solutions
Virtua Medical Group (VMG), a division of Virtua Health (Marlton, NJ) and a multi-specialty physician practice with over 100 members in 29 office locations, has expanded their relationship with GE, selecting Centricity Business Advantage to host core revenue cycle management (RCM) functions for their employed physician practices. Through the selection of Centricity Business Advantage, VMG expects to further leverage the best practices of GE’s people and processes while implementing industry-leading financial and administrative software to better manage their business. |
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GE Healthcare Customer Streamlines Participation In Physician Quality Reporting Initiative
GE Healthcare is proud to announce that CoxHealth (Springfield, MO) has successfully and rapidly prepared to participate in Medicare’s Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI), utilizing GE’s clinical data registry. As previously announced by GE, the company’s Medical Quality Improvement Consortium (MQIC) quality data system was recently selected by the Centres for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) as a reporting registry for the 2008 PQRI program. This initiative streamlines quality reporting for Centricity EMR and Centricity Practice Solution customers that submit for eligible financial incentives through the MQIC registry. A key objective of the MQIC registry is to simplify customer participation in pay for performance programs, and CoxHealth’s progress towards PQRI participation is an outstanding example of the advantages of this service.
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Scott & White Healthcare Selects GE Centricity Business
GE Healthcare is proud to announce that core solutions in the Centricity Business suite have been chosen by Scott & White Healthcare (Temple, Texas). Following a careful selection process, Scott & White expanded their existing relationship with GE Healthcare, and will implement the Centricity Business Patient Access, Physician Revenue Cycle Management and Business Intelligence solutions across their enterprise to support their focus on patient satisfaction and customer service, patient access, clinical integration, productivity, and revenue cycle operations. |
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