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 AUSTRALIA: Medica Centre Inks Centricity® Deal With GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare is proud to announce that Medica Centre entered into a 15 year partnership deal that will set a significant milestone for Australia and New Zealand’s healthcare IT industry.
With this partnership, the 35-bed multi-disciplinary Medica Center, which is due to open in the late 2010, and will be the first of a number of Greenfield Day Surgery Hospitals that aim to conduct over 30,000 surgical procedures per year, will become a complete digital hospital from initial admission through to discharge and billing
According to Michael McGrath co-founder at the Cortez Group, the developers behind Medica Centre, more than 30,000 surgical procedures are expected to be conducted each year at the new 35-bed centre.
The concept is known as ‘the hospital without beds’ where patients once ambulated will be discharged to their home and followed by comprehensive home nursing services. This includes physiotherapy, meals and other support services. This model has significant advantages, as the cost is less expensive than a traditional extended acute hospital stay and studies have demonstrated that many patients recover more quickly in their own home.
“The Medica Centre at Hurstville will be first in a number of greenfield day surgery hospitals and it is the first in Australia to be a completely digital hospital from a patient’s initial admission through to discharge and billing,” Mr McGrath said.
“By providing this type of centre which will accommodate a range of specialists and services in the one building, we aim to reduce some of the stress that many patients experience at a time when they are dealing with health concerns such as cancer and surgery,” he said.
“So often people are concerned about how they will get to their specialist’s appointment, where will they park, where will they go to get their CT scan or pathology done, and how long will they have to wait for the results,” he said.
Mr McGrath said that by installing the latest integrated IT network throughout the centre, a patient’s radiology images and pathology results will be able to accessed and read quickly by their treating specialist/s and medical team.
GE Healthcare’s Centricity Solution is a powerful suite of products designed to promote patient safety and drive improved patient care. It uses secure, state-of-the-art technology and will connect a patient’s team of healthcare providers, including GPs and specialists, allowing them to see and make decisions more quickly on patient data and results.
The centre will also use Centricity®’s integrated Perioperative and Anaesthesia software to all of the onsite surgical procedures. Developed by an interdisciplinary team of clinicians, healthcare specialists and IT experts, the system promotes patient safety and quality of care by making critical information easily available to all members of the care team when and where they need it.
Medica Centre in Hurstville will be the first hospital site in Australia and New Zealand to use this type of system that will digitally manage all information generated by hospital operations to the point where patient paper records are virtually eliminated |
 MALAYSIA: Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM) Ahead Of The Wave In Centricity® PACS GE Healthcare IT is proud to announce our latest Centricity® PACS-IW win at Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM), Kubang Kerian campus in the state of Kelantan, Malaysia.
This first and truly Web-based Centricity® PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications System) project in Malaysia and ASEAN links all modalities in HUSM's Department of Radiology, and will eventually link the other HUSM campus, the Advanced Medical and Dental Institute (AMDI) in the state of Penang, into one virtual department that shares one common image database.
With the installation of Centricity® PACS-IW at Kubang Kerian, radiologists & other clinical staffers now now enjoy greater access to seamless radiological services throughout the HUSM community, and could not be happier.
"Images & reports are now always available on demand, even on our personal computers, anywhere within the campus network, regardless of where they were produced. Centricity® PACS-IW simply gives more flexibility and enhanced workflow in the clinical management", says Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Ezane Aziz, Head, Department of Radiology, HUSM. |
KOREA: GE Healthcare Bags Two Replacements Wins In A Row
GE Healthcare is excited to announce two back to back deals with both the Konkook University Hospital and National Health Insurance Corporation Ilsan Hospital for the replacement of their existing Centricity® PACS systems.
These two wins cap a paradigm shift in within the Korean medical industry, from previously when radiologists focused mainly on the price points to recently as the industry shifted its focus to quality and performance.
A major catalyst for this shift lies in the current trend of modalities carrying large image volumes, resulting in more doctors seeking stability and capability in GE Healthcare’s Centricity® PACS solutions, which have been prominently showcased in sites such as Samsung Medical Center and Severance Hospital.
With these wins, GE Healthcare has now taken a giant step forward into the Korean domestic market, which is currently dominated by INFINITT with more than 60% market share.
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PHILIPPINES: St Luke Hospital Deploys First Centricity® RISi/ Centricity® PACS-IW
St.Luke Global City, a newly-built 650-bed hospital and a branch hospital of St.Luke Quezon City, has chosen GE Healthcare’s Centricity® RISi/ Centricity® PACS-IW solution for deployment, capping a multi-vendor selection process that culminates in the first–ever Integrated Centricity® RISi/ Centricity® PACS-IW solution deployment in Philippines.
Based on our top rating in recent KLAS reports, and superior thought leadership, GE Healthcare was chosen out of ten vendors after a thorough assessment, marking GE as the market leader in the region.
With the culmination of the assessment process, St.Luke Global City is now going through a pre-implementation phase, and is on schedule to begin operations in January 2010. |
SINGAPORE: GE Healthcare Scores Key Deal With Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH)
GE Healthcare is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a significant Centricity® RISi/ Centricity® PACS-IW order from the green field Khoo Teck Puat hospital (KTPH), an acute care hospital located in the northern part of Singapore, serving the healthcare needs of some 700,000 Yishun residents.
Slated to open in Mar 2010, KTPH is also leveraging on existing Cluster Centricity® PACS solutions to backup radiology images over for Disaster Recovery purposes while cross-sharing the images across different healthcare institutions in Singapore.
The deal not only signifies GE Healthcare's first integrated RISi and Centricity® PACS-IW leadership in the AP region but also extends our partnership between Alexandra Health and GE.
With the project currently at pre-implementation stages, GE Healthcare expects to deliver the first Integrated Centricity® RISi and Centricity® PACS-IW solutions on schedule by March 2010. |
SINGAPORE: GE Healthcare Chosen For Centricity® RISi Upgrades
GE Healthcare has also been awarded Centricity® RISi orders from two leading Singapore hospitals, National University Hospital (NUH) and Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), to upgrade their Centricity® RIS.
A GE Healthcare customer for Centricity® RIS/ Centricity® PACS since 1999. NUH has been an early adopter of GE Centricity® RIS/ Centricity® PACS solutions – with multiple upgrades during over the years. For its current technology refresh, NUH will upgrade its existing version of Centricity® PACS 3.0 (Solaris) to the latest Linux platform and uplift its Centricity® RIS to Centricity® RISi, with extra enhanced workflow modules.
Similarly, TTSH, which has been a GE Healthcare customer since 2001, chose to upgrade to the latest Centricity® RISi version, with plans to upgrade their Centricity® PACS in 2010.
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