eHealth Community Desktop is an open, standards-based framework for delivering clinical applications, built on top of a connected healthcare community. Its foundation is a portal technology that provides clinicians and other providers across the healthcare continuum a web-based, simple and easy way to view patient data available within a Health Information Exchange (HIE).

eHealth Community Desktop will help widen access to critical clinical information. Where possible, GE Healthcare integrates clinical data from the HIE directly into provider’s existing workflows and familiar EMR screens. Now, multidisciplinary care team members, regardless if they use an EMR or not, can actively track their patient’s care, leverage advanced applications provided via the HIE and better support complex and care management.

Key Benefits Include:

• Streamlines sign on via a single entry point for clinicians accessing multiple systems
• Extended access across the community for care providers without access to an EMR
• Ability to actively track patient’s care across multidisciplinary care providers, regardless if the organization has an EMR or not
• Improved access to hospital discharge summaries, lab results, radiology images and secure messages among the providers on the HIE network
• Ability to enhance the value of the HIE by hosting value-add applications like referrals management, quality benchmarking and home-grown applications like an immunization registry