Life-Spanning System Integrates All Patient Data

A new patient-record software system electronically and instantaneously integrates patient data from all major medical areas and tracks it through the life of the patient, providing doctors with critical information anytime and anywhere at the touch of a computer through secured technology.

As patients move through hospital care areas, their information moves just as fast with them, providing caregivers with historical and real-time data. Called GE Integriti, the system is the product of GE Medical Systems Information Technologies (Milwaukee, WI, USA). Based on the system's use in medical facilities to date, GE anticipates that it will save patients minutes and even hours of time during hospital visits, and will significantly increase the efficiency of hospitals and clinics.

The enterprise-wide clinical information system offers a portfolio of clinical applications for various care areas of a hospital, including emergency departments, labor and delivery, intensive care units, operating rooms, and clinics. Doctors can document and retrieve information at the hospital, their office, and even at home.

"Integrated patient information systems are going to be in almost every operating room and hopefully every U.S. hospital in the next 10-20 years, given the explosion of advanced information technology,” said Michael O'Reilly, M.D., an anesthesiologist at the University of Michigan Health System.



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