Metrohealth System Goes Live On GE Healthcares Centricity Laboratory Information System

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Article Date: 04 Dec 2007 - 4:00 PDT

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GE Healthcare IT announced the successful implementation of Centricity Laboratory Information Systems (LIS) at MetroHealth System. As an Ohio-based leader in emergency and critical care, MetroHealth Systems chose GE Healthcare's Centricity LIS solution to further automate paperless workflow, enable real-time patient visibility, and consolidate operations of three major divisions within the facility.

"Our MHS Department of Pathology received first-rate implementation and go-live support from the GE Healthcare team, leading to a successful implementation of the Centricity Laboratory System," said Carol Iaffaldano, LIS Director, MetroHealth Systems. "GE worked directly with our team to utilize the application functionality to the maximum and provided the opportunity for MHS to contribute functionality request input directly to the programmer group - something that is relatively unheard of in the LIS world."

As a result of the implementation, MHS has an automated, paperless foundation for specimen receipt and tracking. Unique to the Centricity LIS installation is a new capability to generate bar code labels at the point of specimen collection and with the ability to scan upon receipt in the laboratory, decreasing the possibility of mislabeled error.

"MHS joins the ranks of numerous facilities that have re-imagined workflow by automating and integrating laboratory processes with Centricity LIS," said Laurent Rotival, General Manager. Enterprise Solutions. "This first implementation of Centricity LIS version 4.0 at MHS creates ways to streamline workflow and efficiency of the entire laboratory department, providing critical lab test information in a timely manner to all areas of the hospital."

About MetroHealth System

The MetroHealth System is one of the largest, most comprehensive health care providers in Northeast Ohio, serving the medical needs of the Greater Cleveland community for 170 years. More than 500 primary care and specialty care physicians practice within The MetroHealth System. Affiliated since 1914 with Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, MetroHealth is a center for medical research and education, with all active staff physicians holding Case faculty appointments. The MetroHealth System is comprised of a major medical center, a rehabilitation hospital, two long-term care/skilled nursing centers, an outpatient surgery center, and a network of community-based health care centers.

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. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at http://www.gehealthcare.com.