Patients often visit their doctors with incomplete information that can prevent them from receiving optimal recommendations. With GE’s Health Information Exchange (HIE), care providers have access to more relevant data on their patients, such as medication history, physical therapy recommendations, previous illness and more. This cross-community, longitudinal information supports more holistic care. And with Patient Online, connected to the GE Healthcare’s HIE, patients have the ability to access health information at home, empowering them to proactively manage their care. Patients with chronic illnesses can access vital health information on a 24/7 basis, and secure, online communications with their clinicians whenever they need it.

Benefits to Healthcare Organizations:

• Streamline patient-provider communications with secure messaging and alerts that can help to motivate your patients to become more actively involved in their health and their health care. 
• Strengthen the competitive position of your care delivery organization by leveraging IT systems to make the process of engaging with the health care system faster and easier for patients 
• Improve continuity of care by centralizing clinical, device, and patient-sourced data in a single, integrated personal health record.

For healthcare organizations in ambulatory care settings who believe that empowering patients is a strategic imperative, Patient Online offers an integrated channel of communications that extends the provider workflow to the patient’s home, reducing cost, enhancing quality, and enabling greater access to care for patients and their families. In addition, the health organization also can benefit from the next level of patient engagement by allowing both clinicians and patients to access this community care record.