BARRINGTON, Ill. -- GE Healthcare, a leading vendor for comprehensive clinical, financial, and administrative information technology solutions, has entered into a strategic alliance with DataMasters Incorporated, an information technology organization dedicated to providing business intelligence tools to the healthcare industry. Through the partnership, GE will offer Centricity(r) Business - Informatics, a business intelligence solution that is designed to facilitate widespread user adoption of reporting and analytical tools.

As part of the comprehensive Centricity(r) Business (formerly IDX(r) Flowcast(r)) revenue cycle management solution, Datamaster's Precision.BI product will collect complex organizational data and processes and translate the data into simplified result-oriented information for healthcare professionals. Using results-oriented information will help executives, managers and providers make critical and timely business decisions.

"Our customers are demonstrating the desire and readiness to push analytical and reporting capabilities further into their end-user base, including managers, business staff, clinicians, and executives." said Jeff Kao, vice president and general manager for GE Healthcare Integrated IT Solutions. "This partnership combines the proven data model and usability of Precision.BI with the business expertise of GE Healthcare to create a solution designed to transform business data into intelligent and actionable information."


GE's Centricity(r) Business - Informatics offers healthcare organizations enhanced business intelligence capabilities that support the import of data from across the enterprise into an easy to use application, empowering end users to track and improve their performance. This solution can be rapidly deployed, and features a dynamic scheduler, field level security, audit capabilities, and role and responsibility based "dashboarding" with the ability to drill down to detailed data. Key Performance Indicators and Dashboard subject areas include AR Aging & Balances, AR Trends, Provider Utilization, Collection Analysis, Income Analysis, Service Analysis, Scheduling and other metrics critical for understanding, managing and improving organizational performance.

"We are very excited that GE Healthcare has partnered with Precision.BI on the Business Intelligence (BI) front," said Mari Beth Anderson Director of Information Systems for University of Florida Jacksonville Physicians, Inc., and a Centricity Business customer already leveraging Precision.BI. "The fully integrated components of Precision.BI combined with GE's revenue cycle knowledge, delivery and support infrastructure will help healthcare organizations like ours report, trend and achieve their organizational goals."

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