Moses Cone Health System Goes-Live On GE Centricity Enterprise

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Article Date: 23 Jun 2008 - 3:00 PDT

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GE Healthcare IT, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) announced that Moses Cone Health System, a five hospital system based in North Carolina, went live on the latest version 6.1 of GE's Centricity® Enterprise Solution .

"We selected Centricity Enterprise to provide an end-to-end continuum across our portfolio of GE products ," said John Jenkins, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Moses Cone Health System. "Timely success could not have been achieved without our strong partnership with GE Healthcare, ensuring the success at every step in this journey "

Building on an existing Centricity portfolio, Moses Cone also went live on a co-developed nursing application, called Clinician Assessment and Noting, aimed to streamline documentation process and help standardize best practices. The solution provides a workflow-centric approach to documenting a patient assessment, including structured data entry and free text and the ability to enter patient data from across the Centricity Enterprise system.

"We're thrilled to share our vision of healthcare technology with Moses Cone as a valued extension of our partner network," said Laurent Rotival, Vice President and General Manager, GE Healthcare IT. "Recognized by nursing accreditations such as Magnet at all five of their hospitals, brought a wealth of experience to the development process and honed our ability to better serve the nursing community.

" Additionally, the latest version of Centricity Enterprise will prepare Moses Cone for future deployment of advanced functionality, including Barcode Medication Administration and Computerized Physician Order Entry.

Centricity Enterprise is an integrated clinical, financial and administrative system that helps caregivers provide enhanced patient care through computerized physician order entry (CPOE), clinical decision support and expert rules, while documenting all aspects of patient care. The system integrates core clinical processes for orders, results, pharmacy and care documentation, in concert with administrative/financial processes for scheduling, registration/admitting, charging and billing

About Moses Cone Health System

Moses Cone Health System, based in Greensboro, NC, is a multi-hospital system with a range of outpatient services designed to provide care for Piedmont residents living in Guilford, Randolph, Rockingham and Alamance counties and the city of Kernersville. More than 7,400 employees work throughout The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, Wesley Long Community Hospital, The Women's Hospital of Greensboro, Annie Penn Hospital, The Behavioral Health Center and outpatient services.

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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