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GE Healthcare Debuts Centricity OneView Global Reading at this week’s meeting of the Radiological Society of North America annual meeting ( RSNA 2009 ) in Chicago

Taking another step toward creating a more collaborative imaging environment, GE Healthcare , a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company, is launching a unique solution that bridges the gap between disparate RIS and PACS systems to help improve radiologist productivity. At this week’s meeting of the Radiological Society of North America annual meeting ( RSNA 2009 ) in Chicago, the company debuted Centricity OneView Global Reading, enabling access to images and information spread across disparate systems and multiple vendor solutions within a single worklist.

By eliminating the need to read from multiple sources, Centricity OneView Global Reading helps increase radiologist productivity, improves turnaround time and, by breaking down interoperability barriers, eases collaboration between specialists and other organizations.  The collaborative potential also enables Centricity OneView Global Reading to reduce costs associated with outsourcing the interpretation of studies and facilitates the creation of new revenue opportunities by enabling radiologists to provide reading services to outside organizations.

“Today, our customers are facing significant challenges relative to the existence of disparate systems. Multiple RIS and PACS solutions from different vendors create silos of information and make it difficult to maintain productivity by requiring that radiologists read from multiple workstations and locations,” said Don Woodlock, Vice President and General Manager of GE Healthcare IT. “Centricity OneView Global Reading tackles that challenge by enabling a global work-sharing environment across disparate RIS/PACS systems, helping customers maximize productivity to save time and money.”

Together with Centricity OneView Single Patient Jacket, which leverages GE’s Smart Patient Matching Solution and offers faster access to more comprehensive patient records across disparate systems for more accurate and timely reports, the solution suite helps enable radiologists to break down barriers and focus on delivering outstanding patient care.

Centricity OneView Single Patient Jacket has been implemented across the Southwestern Ontario (Canada) Diagnostic Imaging Network, integrating 19 PACS and 12 RIS multi-vendor instances across more than 30 hospitals. To date, the implementation of OneView has resulted in the sharing of millions of radiology results and images leading to improvements in efficiency for radiologists and specialists, improved diagnostic turnaround time, and reduced patient transfers.

“Centricity OneView Single Patient Jacket provides the infrastructure to allow physicians to review and consult from any location, regardless of PACS vendor or site where that patient data originated,” said Babette MacRae, project director, Southwestern Ontario Diagnostic Imaging Network. “By providing our physicians with a cohesive, longitudinal view of the patient jacket, our goal is to help improve patient care across the region.”

Source: GE Healthcare

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