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GE Launches Breakthrough Real-Time Decision Support Solution For Doctors & Hospitals
As part of GE’s healthymagination commitment, GE Healthcare recently announced a new solution that puts clinical data and treatment practices in the hands of doctors and clinicians in real-time for informed decisions right at the point of care.
Developed with Intermountain Healthcare and drawing on its three decades of clinical informatics experience, this computerized decision support solution helps doctors focus on making exceptional treatment decisions based on best practices – helping to improve patient outcomes and efficiency in the clinic, ultimately helping to reduce costs.
While the pilot solution will launch at Intermountain in November 2009, GE is set to unveil the full solution at the March 2010 meeting of the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS).
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 New GE eHealth Business Better Connects Patients, Hospitals, Doctors To Critical Information
GE Healthcare today announced the launch of eHealth, a new business unit offering enhanced connectivity to clinicians and patients designed with data privacy and security features to enable health information sharing that can help increase efficiency, reduce error and improve health outcomes. A part of GE’s healthymagination initiative to improve quality and access while reducing cost, the eHealth business tackles one of healthcare’s most pressing problems – fragmented clinical information trapped in disparate IT systems across multiple institutions, without the common framework to connect to other care providers and their patients.
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Cover Story GE Healthcare Features Healthymagination At The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
GE Healthcare kicked off its participation at the RSNA annual meeting in Chicago with a string of announcements on top of showcases of its latest innovations centered on achieving better healthcare for more people at lower cost.
Following up on our "Healthymagination" initiative, the GE Healthcare exhibits allows RSNA attendees to see and experience some of the innovative technologies that will help transform healthcare by addressing the underlying issues of quality, cost and access.
Additionally, GE Healthcare also announced at RSNA that Centricity® PACS-IW, which has just been upgraded to version 3.7.3, is now in use at 100 international institutions and more than 400 in the United States, totaling more than 500 total customers over more than 900 sites around the globe.
Furthermore, GE Healthcare’s Centricity® Precision Reporting solution, a diagnostic reporting tool that leverages advanced speech understanding, is now integrated with Centricity® PACS. This evolutionary solution weds efficient workflow with a sophisticated speech-understanding engine to capture patient data throughout the radiologyreporting and image archiving processes.
Through GE's healthymagination technologies, the company is now well-positioned to help address these global challenges and help radiologists improve and broaden access to healthcare while reducing overall cost.
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A Breakthrough Decision Support Solution For Docs
During a recent speech at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt Immelt unveiled 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. 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.
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| CDC Selects GE Healthcare To Track H1N1 Flu Activity
GE Healthcare, one of the leading providers of healthcare information technology, is proud to announce its selection by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide extensive surveillance data for H1N1 and seasonal influenza activity throughout the United States. Every 24 hours, GE Healthcare will report information gathered from its nationwide electronic database of nearly 14 million patient records to help the CDC monitor the spread of the H1N1 virus in near real-time.
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