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GE Healthcare annouces LSU Health System for GE Centricity RIS/PACS

GE Healthcare announced that Louisiana State University (LSU) Health System will deploy a  new integrated Radiology Information System (RIS), Diagnostic Reporting system and Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), designed to create a network of coordinated health care that will save money and improve the quality of patient care. The $12.5 million contract awarded to GE Healthcare will serve to create a filmless and paperless central database and radiology image repository for securely sharing patient imaging data among  LSU's 10 public hospitals and more than 500 clinics, statewide.

"This system is intended to make patients' scans available at any LSU hospital and clinic throughout the state regardless of where the image was taken, and is intended to increase the knowledge about each patient and help make treatments more effective”. said Dr. Fred Cerise, LSU System Vice President for Health Affairs and Medical Education. Implementation of GE's Centricity RIS/PACS system at the first site begins in late August and is expected to be live at all 10 hospitals within one year. Once operational, LSU doctors and nurses will be able to access critical patient information regardless of where it was acquired, helping LSU achieve its goal of improving diagnosis and treatment of cancer, heart disease, neurological disorders and a wide variety of other illnesses.

The implementation will supplement LSU's Health Information Exchange (LSU-HIE), expected to be live within three months. It  will then enable each LSU patient's electronic records to be available at any LSU hospital, of particular importance during hurricane evacuations when patients are dispersed from their homes. When the it goes online this fall, LSU will have the first statewide health information exchange in Louisiana. Centricity PACS has more than 1,000 installations, worldwide today. Centricity Precision Reporting, embedded in Centricity RIS-IC, weds efficient workflow with a sophisticated speech understanding engine to capture patient data throughout the radiology reporting process. Centricity Enterprise Archive is a standards-based, application neutral imaging repository for Radiology, Cardiology, Endoscopy, Ophthalmology, Dermatology and Oncology.

Source: GE Healthcare

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