University Of Tennessee Medical Center Selects GE Healthcare It For Perioperative Solutions

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Article Date: 18 Apr 2008 - 13:00 PDT

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GE Healthcare IT, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) and a leading provider of clinical, financial and administrative information technology solutions, announced today that it has signed an agreement with the University of Tennessee (UT) Medical Center. GE Healthcare IT will implement its Centricity® Perioperative Software Solution throughout the medical center that regionally serves East Tennessee, Southeast Kentucky and Western North Carolina.

"UT Medical Center prides itself on utilizing the latest technology and resources to provide the best patient care possible,"said Gary Scott, Vice President, Perioperative Services." We were looking for a complete Perioperative solution that provides ease-of-use, full documentation including the latest patient safety features as well the ability to manage our complex supply chain and through a thorough search, GE Healthcare provided the best product."

Utilizing the latest software available, UT Medical will install Centricity Perioperative version 7.5 across the organization's 26 - growing to 55 - operating rooms with the goal of complete documentation and comprehensive revenue cycle management. The Centricity solution will additionally support communications, data and workflow within pre-admission testing and throughout the Post Anesthesia Care Unit, including comprehensive resource management. Additional advantages of the latest version include integrated instrument set tracking, using Sterile Processing Manager, and Centricity Tracker, which provides patient visitors and families with real-time status updates while protecting patient confidentiality.

"We are thrilled to be working with UT Medical Center," says France Pitera, General Manager, GE Healthcare IT. "They have a strong focus on the patient while continuing to drive the newest technology into their organization, to increase efficiency and improve quality."

About the University of Tennessee Medical Center

University of Tennessee Medical Center has a rich history in the community of providing patient-centered care and remaining at the forefront of research, technology and treatments. UT Medical Center is a major medical center, providing superior treatments and healthcare support to residents of the East Tennessee region as well as offering expert care as the area's only Level I Trauma Center. The hospital is a tertiary facility, offering general, specialty and sub-specialty care in a full range of medical fields, including specialties with heart, lung, vascular, brain, spine, childbirth and cancer as well as many other conditions. The medical center is committed to improving the quality of life of patients through leadership in healthcare, health education and clinical research. UT Medical Center is unique because of its standing as the only academic hospital in the Knoxville area, making it the leading resource for research, discovery and updated treatments in the community. The hospital maintains a serious environment with devotion to technological and treatment advances that provide better care for patients.

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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 expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest.

GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries.

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