GE Launches Program to Doctors, Hospitals to Accelerate EMR Adoption; First $100 Million of healthymagination ...(ded use of healthcare IT to speed commun...),Health

Date:6/15/2009

ded use of healthcare IT to speed communications, while limiting variation and controlling costs. By accelerating EMR and Health Information Exchange (HIE) adoption, GE expects to help remove $28 billion in cost from the health system while improving access to better and more affordable care.

GE's Centricity(R) EMR systems are used by more than 33,000 physicians and 900 hospitals and clinics, enabling ambulatory care physicians and clinical staff to document patient encounters, streamline clinical workflow and securely exchange clinical data with other providers, patients, and information systems.

GE's Centricity Enterprise is an integrated clinical, financial and administrative system that helps hospitals caregivers provide enhanced patient care through computerized physician order entry (CPOE), clinical decision support and expert rules, while documenting many aspects of patient care. The system integrates core clinical processes for orders, results, pharmacy and care documentation, in concert with administrative/financial processes for scheduling, registration/admitting, charging and billing. With Centricity Enterprise, hospitals of all sizes are able to quickly and easily drive best practice improvements in their organizations to improve communications between patient care teams.

For more information on the Stimulus Simplicity program, please visit http://www.gehealthcare.com/usen/hit/hitech_act.html.

ABOUT GE HEALTHCARE

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our broad expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technolog
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