Newest Version Of Centricity Enterprise Provides Enhanced Workflow Tools For Clinicians

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Article Date: 14 Jul 2007 - 1:00 PDT

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Recently GE Healthcare released the latest version of Centricity® Enterprise, an intelligent and integrated software suite of clinical and financial applications that is designed to improve patient care and increase collaboration between clinicians - providing a better overall healthcare environment. This latest version of Centricity Enterprise proves that for GE Healthcare, it's all about leadership, collaboration and the patient.

Enterprise Solutions general manager, Laurent Rotival, is excited about the possibilities that the new Centricity Enterprise system brings. "As a leader in the healthcare industry, we're dedicated to bringing our customers renewed commitment and, through collaboration, we're taking the healthcare industry to even higher levels of patient care."

Centricity Enterprise offers comprehensive capabilities that help caregivers provide safer care for patients and clinical excellence throughout their healthcare organization. The software utilizes the user-friendly Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE), which screens every medication order for potential errors and offers point-of-care bar coding for safer medication administration. Organizations using Centricity Enterprise CPOE have reported reductions in potential adverse drug events (ADEs) by up to 75 percent.

The software provides caregivers with real-time access to a patient's electronic records, allowing them to more closely monitor changing health conditions, document assessments more quickly, and communicate seamlessly with all care providers. Time that caregivers previously spent on paperwork can now be focused on treating patients.

Clinicians are able to collaborate quickly and efficiently through Centricity Enterprise. The software provides caregivers access to patient information across the healthcare continuum, including radiology and cardiology images and information - all right at the point of decision. This up-to-the-minute information helps caregivers to see, diagnose and treat the patient with the best care, and is a key component of the GE Healthcare vision of "Early Health," focusing on early diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention.

Adding to the features of Centricity Enterprise is a Web-based portal that provides patients with access to their personal information 24/7, including appointments, billing and health history. Patients can feel reassured that they are getting the best care possible because electronic documentation ensures that caregivers have the most up-to-date information possible.

In addition, the newest version of Centricity Enterprise is supported by the HP NonStop Itanium platform - which boasts 99.99 percent uptime, sub-second response time, and massive scalability, easily supporting thousands of simultaneous transactions and users. Healthcare is a mission-critical environment, and the NonStop Itanium platform delivers the speed and reliability needed to keep hospital systems running when they are needed most.

Centricity Enterprise was created more than 25 years ago, and through customer collaboration, has seen continual enhancements the vision and core principles have remained steady - to automate the workflow of the patient care process; provide immediate feedback; and improve patient care quality, employee productivity and the health of the community.

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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