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GE Healthcare Introduced Breakthrough Integrated IT Initiatives to Transform Healthcare, Bringing Together the Strengths of GE and IDX Systems Corporation


Also at HIMSS, GE Healthcare unveiled breakthrough efforts to seamlessly connect clinicians from physicians' offices to hospitals with comprehensive, enterprise-wide electronic medical record (EMR) solutions. These technology offerings, under the Centricity© product brand, were introduced for the first time since the recent January 2006 acquisition of IDX Systems Corporation.

"The new GE Healthcare Integrated IT Solutions business is combining the best minds in medicine, technology, and business to transform the way healthcare is delivered by offering customers a comprehensive suite of clinical, financial and business management solutions that support knowledge-driven care," said Vishal Wanchoo, president and CEO of GE Healthcare Integrated IT Solutions. "These powerful new capabilities position GE as a leading healthcare IT provider, helping customers streamline healthcare costs, reduce medical errors and improve the overall quality of patient care."

During HIMSS, GE launched its enterprise strategy through the Digital Healthcare Community, a unique tour of a patient's journey through the healthcare continuum, featuring leading-edge GE technology, including inpatient and outpatient electronic health records, imaging, monitoring devices, and departmental systems, such as perinatal and perioperative, working in concert to support the patient care delivery process.

GE also showcased a broad range of visionary technologies to help enable healthcare providers to predict, diagnose, inform and treat disease more efficiently than ever before. Through hands-on demonstrations, the company showcased how it's re-imagining the role of healthcare IT and science, creating the backbone for revolutionizing healthcare from treating "late disease" to enabling "early health" through innovative technologies including evidence-based medicine; modular decision support; home monitoring device integration; and portable lifetime patient health records.

In addition, through its leadership participation in Integrating the Health Enterprise (IHE), GE demonstrated technologies that provide seamless health information exchange among care providers, a key enabler for building regional health information organizations. The new standards-based interoperability effort will help deliver on the vision for providing secure exchange of healthcare information among patients and caregivers as part of a Nation-wide Health Information Network.

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