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GE Healthcare Launches Centricity Imaging IT Tour 2013 in Dallas

June to October Tour Brings GE Healthcare’s Centricity Imaging Technologies to Hospitals and Medical Centers Across the US and Canada for Viewing and Demonstrations 

DALLAS – June 6, 2013 – Between June and October, 2013, healthcare providers at hospitals and medical centers across the US and Canada can experience GE Healthcare’s entire line of Centricity* Imaging technologies when the Centricity Imaging IT Tour visits locations in over 30 major markets.

“GE Healthcare is about connecting productivity with care on every level,” says David Hale, vice president & GM, GE Healthcare IT, US & Canada. “This tour is one example of that. We are bringing our imaging technologies to the healthcare providers who need to view and assess them, saving them the time and expense of traveling to a trade show to do their research.”

The tour provides access to GE Healthcare’s full line of imaging IT solutions including Centricity PACS or PACS-IW with Universal Viewer, Centricity RIS- IC, Centricity Imaging Analytics, Centricity Cardio Enterprise, Centricity Clinical Archive, Centricity Radiology Mobile Access, AW Advanced Applications, and Dose Monitoring.

Healthcare providers’ recognition of the value of GE Healthcare’s imaging IT solutions to their practices was reaffirmed in May when GE Healthcare was named the 2013 North American Radiology Informatics Company of the Year by Frost & Sullivan.  The Award announcement stated that “GE Healthcare has remained the undisputed leader in the U.S. radiology informatics market for over a decade, both in terms of market revenue and installed base.”

To learn more about the Centricity Imaging IT Tour 2013 or to register to host a visit, go to

http://www3.gehealthcare.com/en/Products/Categories/Healthcare_IT/Centricity_Imaging_Tour.

*Centricity is a registered trademark of General Electric Company.

ABOUT GE HEALTHCARE:

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services to meet the demand for increased access, enhanced quality and more affordable healthcare around the world.  GE (NYSE: GE) works on things that matter – great people and technologies taking on tough challenges. From medical imaging, software & IT, patient monitoring and diagnostics to drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies and performance improvement solutions, GE Healthcare helps medical professionals deliver great healthcare to their patients.

For our latest news, please visit http://newsroom.gehealthcare.com

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June 12, 2013 I Written By

John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 15 blogs containing almost 5000 articles with John having written over 2000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 9.3 million times. John also recently launched two new companies: InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com, and is an advisor to docBeat. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and Google Plus.

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GE Healthcare IT Announces New Initiatives in Support of Customers

Company Showcases Customer-Facing Business Plans as Customers Converge on Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 15, 2013 — As many GE Healthcare IT customers converge on the nation’s capital for the company’s largest user group meeting of the year, the Company is announcing several new initiatives intended to continue the focus on customers, year-round.

GE to Honor Productivity Champions

At this year’s session, GE Healthcare is announcing an effort to find the practices that most embody GE Healthcare’s vision of “connecting productivity with care.”  The Centricity Productivity Award honors facilities that have used GE Healthcare IT solutions to boost productivity in significant and measurable ways. Beginning in September, GE Healthcare will collect nominations for the award and a judging committee comprised of customers and GE Healthcare executives.  Judges will then award the winners with gold, silver and bronze level recognition at next year’s Centricity LIVE event in Denver.

Centricity Imaging Solutions Tour

As demand for next generation imaging IT rises, GE Healthcare is finding ways to drive the possibilities to customers, literally.  This year, GE “takes the show on the road” with the Centricity Imaging Solutions Tour that starts in Dallas, site of the annual Society for Imaging and Informatics in Medicine meeting, June 3-7. The truck makes roughly three stops a week as it travels the country for five months. “The goal is to bring our equipment to our customers so they don’t have to wait for a trade show to see it,” said Mike Jackman, vice president and general manager of GE Healthcare IT. “It’s just another example of how we’re investing to help solve our customers’ imaging needs.”

New Centricity Channel Program to Support Ambulatory Practices Nationwide

GE Healthcare is making significant investments to support small and midsize independent practices nationwide through an expanded partner ecosystem.  Building on the recent launch of Centricity Practice 11 (CPS), which now offers ICD-10 readiness and exciting new features like one-click problem entry, we have expanded our network of Value Added Resellers (VARs) across the nation who sell the solution. In addition, we launched a new, tiered Centricity Channel Program. The program enables partners with marketing funds, co-op funds, performance rebates, and extensive training & certification programs to provide a world class solution and support to practices.  Partners also leverage the broader GE Healthcare marketing activities to help create demand and extend the offering. For information on participating partners in your region, visit the CPS Website, or, for resellers interested in partnering with GE, please email centricitypartner@ge.com

This week’s 2013 GE Healthcare IT User Conference, Centricity LIVE, is the year’s main event for the business’ U.S-based customers to share knowledge and learn best practices in order getting the most out of Centricity software solutions.

“It’s the one event this year where we pull our customers to one place,” said David Hale, vice president and general manager of GE Healthcare IT. “We’ll combine the feedback gathered at these sessions with that collected from our other, regular listening mechanisms. We regularly conduct customer surveys, product demonstrations and focus groups to form a continual, year-round feedback loop, the foundation of our relationship with our valued customers.”

*Registered trademark of General Electric Corp.

About GE Healthcare:
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services to meet the demand for increased access, enhanced quality and more affordable healthcare around the world. GE (NYSE: GE) works on things that matter – great people and technologies taking on tough challenges. From medical imaging, software & IT, patient monitoring and diagnostics to drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies and performance improvement solutions, GE Healthcare helps medical professionals deliver great healthcare to their patients.

 

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May 29, 2013 I Written By

John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 15 blogs containing almost 5000 articles with John having written over 2000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 9.3 million times. John also recently launched two new companies: InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com, and is an advisor to docBeat. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and Google Plus.

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GE Healthcare Announces Centricity Practice Solution 11

New Ambulatory EMR Offering Simplifies ICD-10 Readiness with One-click Problem Entry and Mapping to ICD-9 Codes

BARRINGTON, Ill. – Jan 24, 2013 – GE Healthcare today announced the release of Centricity* Practice Solution 11, the next generation of its fully integrated EMR and Practice Management solution.   With a dynamic search engine and one-click problem entry, Centricity Practice Solution simplifies the data entry required for medical providers to comply with new the ICD-10 coding requirements and reduces the number of clicks required to enter a problem by 75%.  Combined with the ability to customize workflows, this new solution will help ambulatory practices adjust to healthcare reform and embrace new care models.

With the mandatory transition to ICD-10 codes in October 2014, US providers face a daunting challenge.  While the new coding system has many benefits, including measuring the quality, safety and efficacy of care, it multiplies the ICD-9 dataset by a factor of five and will require a significant amount of training and effort for providers to successfully navigate. With today’s release of Centricity Practice Solution 11, GE Healthcare helps ease the transition to ICD-10 for its customers.

“I’m impressed with the mapping functionality between ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes,” said Dr. Jay Prakash from South Atlanta Medical Clinic. “When our practice has to go through the coding transition next year, the bulk of the learning curve will already be behind us. We are already making use of the one-click problem entry and the search functionality is exceptional.”

Both ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes come pre-loaded in the patient chart, and are delivered through a dynamic search engine, enabling providers to efficiently assign the diagnosis code. Additionally, the search engine uses an algorithm to both predict common search terms and map ICD-9 codes to ICD-10 codes using guidance from CMS where there is a one-to-one correlation, so providers can see the links between the two systems. Problem codes are fully searchable and, once the provider selects the appropriate diagnosis, correlating codes are automatically mapped to both ICD-9 and ICD-10,where there is a one-to-one match.

“The transition to ICD-10 represents one of the most significant changes to clinical documentation since EHR adoption.   Providers that don’t manage the transition well will face high levels of denied claims, delayed payments, inconvenience to patients and potentially legal exposure in the event that improper coding is audited,” said Judy Hanover, research director with IDC Health Insights. “Products that help ease the pain of the transition should do very well in this market.”

Robust features enable providers to spend more time with patients

Centricity Practice Solution offers enhancements in three key areas that help to improve clinical and financial productivity for ambulatory practices:

  • Customizable: Centricity Practice Solution offers flexible workflows that providers can configure to mirror how their specific practice operates, thus reducing the amount of time spent on data entry. Additionally, CPS allows exceptional customization and decision support tools that enable  efficient patient encounters.
  • Progressive: In addition to the predictive search engine and one-click problem entry, Centricity Practice Solution includes a portfolio of pre-built reports and access to GE’s database of nearly 30 million de-identified patient records, so that providers can gather information to prepare to attest for Meaningful Use, benchmark clinical outcomes and adopt new care models like Patient Centered Medical Home.
  • Interoperable: Centricity Practice Solution is available as a fully-integrated EMR/PM package, or either module can be configured to operate as a standalone solution. Centricity Practice Solution also has the built-in tools and forms that enable it to connect to virtually any hospital EMR or revenue cycle system, thus enabling providers to share data with multiple delivery networks in order to offer more coordinated, data-driven care.

“Centricity Practice Solution gives our customers a leg up on transitioning to ICD-10 coding standards,” said Mike Friguletto, vice president and general manager of GE Healthcare IT.  “Our customers that choose to upgrade will be thrilled with the one-click problem entry and ability to continue to customize workflows. It’s truly a game-changer.”

*Registered trademark of General Electric Corp.

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About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our broad expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies, performance improvement and performance solutions services help our customers to deliver better care to more people around the world at a lower cost. In addition, we partner with healthcare leaders, striving to leverage the global policy change necessary to implement a successful shift to sustainable healthcare systems.

Our “healthymagination” vision for the future invites the world to join us on our journey as we continuously develop innovations focused on increasing access and improving quality and affordability around the world. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employees are committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com. For our latest news, please visit http://newsroom.gehealthcare.com.

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January 24, 2013 I Written By

John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 15 blogs containing almost 5000 articles with John having written over 2000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 9.3 million times. John also recently launched two new companies: InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com, and is an advisor to docBeat. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and Google Plus.

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GE Healthcare Announces New Clinical Research Management Solution

Centricity* Research Supports Research Efficiency and Compliance Across Broad Spectrum of Clinical Research

GE Healthcare, a global leader in healthcare information technology, today announced Centricity Research, a new clinical research management solution (CRMS).  Centricity Research will help improve the efficiency and efficacy of clinical research studies, enterprise-wide, by driving better management of treatment plans, processes, and protocols while supporting research billing compliance.

Available today, Centricity Research is the industry’s first enterprise-class clinical research management solution.  Centricity Research helps institutions conducting clinical or translational research manage the growing complexity of research processes and compliance requirements. Centricity Research has robust functionality, built on the foundation of the currently available Centricity Patient Protocol Management solution, to support both the institutions’ and researchers’ efforts in achieving compliance, enhancing safety, increasing subject recruitment, and facilitating agency audits.

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In addition, GE Healthcare has developed a strategic partnership with mdlogix, which developed its CRMS in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and other leading clinical research institutions.

“The enterprise deployment of CRMS at Johns Hopkins includes all departments in the School of Medicine,” said Dr. Dan Ford, Vice-Dean of Clinical Research at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.  “We have over 4,000 protocols currently in CRMS, with over 1,100 of those being active, and approximately 25% of those protocols using CRMS solely at the discretion of the researchers themselves because of the value they gain from the system.   CRMS has helped us more efficiently manage the 30% increase we have achieved in the number of research studies conducted at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine since 2007.”

Centricity Research helps ensure adherence to protocols and maximizes clinical research dollars, while providing the foundation for the continuous improvement of research processes. The platform can integrate with a variety of existing institutional systems, including electronic IRB systems, EMR/EPR systems, and revenue cycle management (RCM) systems.

“GE Healthcare is introducing a major leap forward in clinical research management,” said Jim Corrigan, Vice President and General Manager of GE Healthcare IT.  “We’re introducing a system that not only connects to our other Centricity offerings, but is pliable enough for today’s market by easily integrating with the variety of other systems that institutions have in place.”

“Having successfully deployed our enterprise CRMS at one of the leading research institutions in the nation, we are pleased to work with GE Healthcare to bring this enterprise solution to market,” said Aaditya Goswami, CEO of mdlogix.  “Our partnerships allow us to offer a solution unique in the domain for supporting clinical research compliance and maximizing efficiency. Centricity Research not only serves the needs of researchers and clinicians, but also those of billing staff and research administrators.”

For more information about Centricity Research, please visit www.gehealthcare.com/centricity or emai lGECentricityBusiness@ge.com to request a demonstration.

*Centricity is a registered trademark of General Electric Company.

ABOUT GE HEALTHCARE:

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our broad expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies, performance improvement and performance solutions services help our customers to deliver better care to more people around the world at a lower cost. In addition, we partner with healthcare leaders, striving to leverage the global policy change necessary to implement a successful shift to sustainable healthcare systems.

Our “healthymagination” vision for the future invites the world to join us on our journey as we continuously develop innovations focused on reducing costs, increasing access and improving quality around the world. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employees are committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website atwww.gehealthcare.com.

 

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April 7, 2011 I Written By

John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 15 blogs containing almost 5000 articles with John having written over 2000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 9.3 million times. John also recently launched two new companies: InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com, and is an advisor to docBeat. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and Google Plus.

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