GE Broadens Meaningful Use Capability of Hospital Information Technology

A Meaningful Use-ready integrated healthcare information technology (HIT) solution offers cross-continuum clinical, financial, and administrative software solution for hospitals.

The Centricity Enterprise 6.9 HIT solution is an integrated clinical/financial system designed 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. It provides integrated clinical and financial or administrative software solutions and services to support organizations that require an integrated inpatient and ambulatory software solution on a single platform, and wish to demonstrate inpatient and ambulatory Meaningful Use. The solution enables faster clinician adoption and preconfigured computerized physician order entry (CPOE) workflows with embedded decision support--all on a single integrated platform crossing the healthcare continuum.

New tools and enhancements are specifically designed to support clinical staff adoption, quality improvement, and cost reduction. The 6.9 release also includes configurable patient and assignment views, ePrescribing, eligibility, and formulary checking of patients, and new applications such as a Registries module to support quality measures and automated building of discharge instructions based on diagnosis, medications, problems, and allergies, among others. The Centricity Enterprise 6.9 HIT solution is a product of General Electric Healthcare (GE; Chalfont St. Giles, United Kingdom).

"The release of Centricity Enterprise 6.9 is a very exciting milestone both for our customers as well as for GE Healthcare,” said Laurent Rotival, vice president and general manager of GE HIT. "As a result of our continued commitment and investment in the Centricity Enterprise solution suite, we are confident Centricity Enterprise will be there for our customers-both existing and new- throughout the journey towards demonstrating meaningful use.”

"Centricity Enterprise is used by many of the country's most forward-thinking academic medical centers and community hospitals. Our customers can rest assured of our commitment to helping them achieve Meaningful Use,” added Mr. Rotival. "They know when they choose GE, they're not only getting a product for today, they're getting our commitment to grow and work with them long into the future.”

Meaningful Use refers to a HIT implementation program set by the Obama Administration intended to use federal financial incentives to stimulate the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs). The move towards EHRs will hopefully lead to improved care and healthcare coordination, reduced healthcare disparities, encourage population and public health policy implementation, and will ensure adequate privacy and security. The detail definition of "meaningful use” is to be rolled out in 3 stages over a period of time until 2015.

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