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GE Healthcare, a leading provider of healthcare information technology, unveiled a series of offerings aimed at assisting hospitals in accelerating the adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs).

Part of GE’s Digital Day One program, the new offering is based on GE’s Centricity Enterprise portfolio and comprises functionality from the world’s leading hospitals into a pre-configured solution for quick implementation.

”As cost, complexity and usability are continually barriers for a hospital’s digitization, GE has provided a ’blueprint’ solution; functionality on par with the world’s most elite facilities paired with the capability to evolve to market needs,” said Laurent Rotival, Vice President and General Manager, GE Healthcare IT. “As reinforced by financial incentives through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, we believe hospitals have an unprecedented opportunity to leverage technology to improve the quality of patient care.”

The service provides hospitals with an easily deployed EHR solution—with general implementation time under 12 months—that includes pre-configured clinical templates co-developed with leading hospitals across the country.  These best practices help hospitals collect, analyze and report quality improvement metrics and are designed to improve the detection, diagnosis and treatment of care.

With Centricity Enterprise, hospitals of all sizes are able to quickly and easily drive best practice improvements in their organizations, utilize advanced decision support and strive to improve communications between patient care teams. The solution includes Centricity Enterprise Orders and Pharmacy, an integrated, order management, pharmacy, and charting application that consolidates workflows across areas of care. The application offers customizable order sets and embedded real-time clinical decision support aimed to reduce preventable medical errors and the turn-around time for medication orders. By facilitating healthcare technology adoption, GE Healthcare is helping hospitals seeking to increase efficiency and productivity to provide the highest quality of patient care.

Highlights of the new offering include:

• Pre-configured clinical content and processes: The service is pre-configured with standardized workflows, which generally eliminates time needed to customize the solution. Pre-configuration also reduces the need for significant build up of IT staff and provides physicians with an easy to use EHR which allows them to focus more time on patient care.

• Best practices for quality care and reporting: The service includes care plans, orders and templates designed to help hospitals improve patient outcomes and ensure proper documentation, reporting and related reimbursement. Developed by GE Healthcare in collaboration with renowned academic and community-based medical centers, these clinical best practices make it easy for hospitals to gather, analyze and report data on quality initiatives including the Joint Commission core measurements such as acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, pneumonia and other measures.

• ASP offering: GE Healthcare can remotely host the new offering, delivering significant savings in hardware installation time and maintenance costs to hospitals. Additionally, a subscription-pricing model helps lower hospitals’ up-front investment. Hospitals also have access to GE Healthcare expert support staff, reducing the need for internal IT staff and clinician time during installation.

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.

Source: GE Healthcare