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Boston Scientific and GE Healthcare Announce their First Patient Data Link to Electronic Medical Record
Date:11/6/2007

NATICK, Mass. and BARRINGTON, Ill., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) and GE Healthcare (NYSE: GE) today announced the industry's first patient data integration between a cardiac rhythm management remote monitoring system and a physician's electronic medical record, currently installed at Seattle Cardiology and Cardiology Consultants of Philadelphia.

The integration uses Boston Scientific's LATITUDE(R) Patient Management system to allow clinicians to access information from a patient's implanted cardiac device and store within the GE Centricity(R) Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system in the form of lab results.

"Having electronic access to a more comprehensive medical record enables me to provide even better care for my device patients," said R. Jeffrey Westcott, M.D., Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Swedish Heart and Vascular Institute, Seattle, WA. "The additional upside is less paperwork and the ability to easily collaborate with other physicians who are managing other aspects of the patient's care."

"The collaboration between GE Healthcare and Boston Scientific provides a more comprehensive patient record and enables physicians to make more accurate decisions regarding their patients," said Dr. Scott Hessen, Chief, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Cardiology Consultants of Philadelphia, PA.

GE's Centricity EMR is an electronic medical record system that enables ambulatory care physicians and c
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