by
Barbara Kram, Editor | January 08, 2008
The newest courses in the program, "Wireless in the Healthcare IT Environment" and "Securing the Healthcare IT Environment," can be taken in any order after "Essentials of Healthcare IT."
"Wireless in the Healthcare Environment" addresses the unique challenges of wireless patient monitoring, exploring WiFi and WMTS, as well as RF propagation and frequencies for specific healthcare services.
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"Securing the Healthcare IT Environment" covers the handling of sensitive patient information due to HIPAA regulations. It looks closely at the hospital's infrastructure, as well as the ECRI/ACCE model for risk assessment. Common healthcare network attacks and countermeasures to protect the hospital network are included.
The benefits of the Healthcare IT curriculum include increased IT skills, better-informed decisions, faster repair, and improved communications with the IT department. The hospital benefits from reduced equipment downtime, improved workflow, more accurate diagnosis of problems, all resulting in improved patient care. GE's website will provide more information on the Healthcare IT program www.gehealthcare.com/hcit
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest.
GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com.
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