University Of Colorado Hospital Goes Live With Centricity Perioperative System To Coordinate Surgical Services And Provide A Continuous Patient Record

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Article Date: 10 Dec 2007 - 5:00 PDT

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GE Healthcare IT announced that the University of Colorado Hospital has gone live with GE Healthcare's Centricity Perioperative System to streamline surgical services across five business segments. The solution integrates anesthesia, nursing, scheduling, surgery management and pre-procedures services into one complete patient record that helps caregivers provide efficient and safe patient care.

"The need for a complete and continuous record of any Perioperative event, from pre-procedures to post-PACU, drove our decision to select GE and Centricity Periop," said Katherine Halverson Carpenter, RN, MBA, CNOR, Director of Perioperative Services. "The development of an integrated electronic medical record for nursing and anesthesia was highly valued by all the disciplines."

With integrated Nursing and Anesthesia documentation, clinicians can capture and communicate vital patient data throughout the Perioperative environment. The solution creates an integrated workflow to streamline data input that shares essential patient information and simplifies documentation throughout the Perioperative continuum of care. The implementation of Centricity Perioperative Manager and Anesthesia provides a complete Perioperative solution for UCH.

"Automating and connecting the entire patient care process is key for a successful perioperative workflow," said France Pitera, GM, Specialty Care Businesses. "Centricity Perioperative completes the end to end process from surgery management through inventory control, doctors preference cards, and scheduling to the clinical solutions in nursing and anesthesia documentation."

Dr. Leslie Jameson, MD, Vice Chair of the Department of Anesthesia, noted the project success was due to proper training of anesthesia end users and the partnership that GE Healthcare and the University of Colorado Hospital developed throughout the implementation. "GE has always understood and worked with UCH to accomplish a common goal -- successful implementation with a superior product."

About the University of Colorado Healthcare

The University of Colorado Hospital is the Rocky Mountain region's leading academic medical center, and has been recognized as one of the United States' best hospitals, according to U.S.News & World Report. Located at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado, the UCH Hospital is affiliated with the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. The UCH Hospital is best known as an innovator in patient care and often as one of the first hospitals to bring new medicine to patients' bedsides. Top medical professionals, superior medicine and progressive change make the University of Colorado Hospital one of the leading hospitals in the nation

The new hospital at the Anschutz Medical Campus, the Anschutz Inpatient Pavilion, which opened June 2007, after a move from the old facility, is a family-focused 399 bed teaching facility that offers patients the most advanced medical treatment and the finest amenities available.

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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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