Our vision is to provide an infrastructure that will transform healthcare from a system that reacts to chronic conditions to one that manages these conditions proactively and prevents or, at least, mitigates their long-term complications, said Vishal Wanchoo, president and CEO of GE Healthcare Integrated IT Solutions. Through the expansion of our agreement with Intermountain, we are accelerating this vision by developing technologies that will help enable providers to diagnose conditions at an earlier stage, tailor treatments more specifically to the individual patients findings and presentation, and prevent long-term complications, wherever possible.

In 2005, GE Healthcare and Intermountain announced a multi-year technology development collaboration to develop an enterprise clinical information system that takes advantage of Intermountains internationally recognized expertise in clinical informatics and GE Healthcares leading clinical software applications and market depth and breadth. The agreement will also include solutions for imaging, perioperative, PACS, pharmacy, lab and ambulatory electronic medical records.
Since GE Healthcares acquisition of IDX Systems Corporation on January 4, 2006, the GE-Intermountain alliance has worked to incorporate into the Centricity Enterprise Solution many of the features developed by IDX, thereby taking advantage of IDXs 25-year heritage in this field. The IDX acquisition has accelerated the alliances efforts to move Centricity EMR toward an integrated clinical, financial and administrative system that supports the creation of lifetime electronic patient records. The alliance will also include use of the Centricity Radiology Solution, a combined picture archiving communications system (PACS) solution and radiology information system (RIS). Intermountain plans to use both systems across its 21 hospitals and its network of ambulatory clinics.


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