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GE Healthcare 's Centricity Imaging Enterprise Archive 4.0 delivers one desktop, one patient, one community

Enhancing the quality of patient care and addressing the needs of IT professionals, GE Healthcare IT’s latest imaging solution made its U.S. debut at this week’s meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society ( HIMSS10 ) in Atlanta.  Centricity Imaging Enterprise Archive 4.0 (EA 4.0) builds on the widely adopted version 3.0 with new technology to image enable an EMR with a single point of access to DICOM and non-DICOM objects across a healthcare enterprise.

"Imaging is such a vital part of seeing the entire patient record and achieving the true value of healthcare IT systems, enabling the delivery of higher quality patient care in a secure electronic environment,” said Dr. David Mendelson, chief of clinical informatics at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan.  “The more you know about a patient, the better you are going to do by that patient."

GE Healthcare 's Centricity Imaging Enterprise Archive 4.0 simplifies the archiving of “multi-ology” images, results and related information, delivering a universal repository.  This unified, standards-based architecture, combined with support for XDS/XDSi and an intuitive, web-based viewer, helps enable healthcare organizations to realize their vision for enterprise imaging.

The lightweight, robust viewer leverages GE Healthcare ’s heritage of Six Sigma work improving healthcare workflow and its leadership position with PACS and web-based viewer technology.

Consolidating data from different departments into a single reliable system eliminates islands of information, reduces IT overhead, and facilitates compliance with retention and disaster recovery requirements.

EA 4.0’s robust features provide a comprehensive product suite tailored to meet the needs of IT professionals, including:

• Allowing sites to lower costs by re-using existing infrastructure while maintaining compliance for retention requirements
• Support for DICOM and non-DICOM objects such as JPEG and PDF providing a single point of access through the EMR for the entire patient longitudinal record
• Adherence and support of DICOM, HL-7 and IHE XDS standards provides the ability to deploy in a multi-vendor environment
• Support for Patient Identifier Cross-Referencing (PIX) reconciles multiple patient identifiers to present a single unified view of all available patient information
• EA 4.0 is built on a Microsoft Technology Stack and also includes support for VMware

Because EA 4.0’s standards-based protocols allow a facility to share documents and images across multiple vendor solutions and integrate multiple solutions, it enables the interoperability with an organization’s health information exchange ( HIE ). 

Source: GE Healthcare

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