GE Healthcare Announces Participation By Centricity Health Information Exchange Services At 2008 IHE Connectathon
GE Healthcare entered 14 systems at the IHE 2008 North American Connectathon, held Jan 28 - Feb 1,2008 in Chicago, IL. More than 37 different IHE profiles were cross-tested, in six key areas (domains), with 70 other HIT vendors. Of particular note, GE Healthcare completed and passed testing of profiles relevant to its Centricity HIE Services solution, which implements Cross-Domain Document Sharing (XDS) profiles as key components of its architecture. Testing domains included IT infrastructure, patient care coordination, laboratory, radiology, cardiology, and patient care devices. According to IHE, Integration Profiles provide a more precise definition of how standards are implemented, and define a specific implementation of standards that are designed to meet identified clinical needs. A list of the specific profiles successfully cross-tested by GE appears below.
"We are pleased at the results of this testing event. We have experienced strong demand from our customers, including electronic medical records (EMR) customers, for a solution that allows them to share clinical information with other clinicians, whether or not they are using GE Centricity products," said Blair Butterfield, General Manager of Government Initiatives, GE Healthcare IT. "Passing these additional IHE profiles further demonstrates our commitment to standards-based interoperability using a secure and flexible architecture, that protects patient privacy and consent, and enables clinical data to be stored and shared in accordance with business needs - key issues that have long hampered health information exchange."
IHE is sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and is a global initiative that creates the framework for passing vital health information seamlessly - from application to application, system to system, and setting to setting - across multiple healthcare enterprises. Active participation in IHE and the ongoing development of systems that meet IHE profiles are key elements of GE Healthcare's continued commitment to standards-based health information exchange.
"The standard for interoperability we meet today will ultimately lead to closer connections among doctors, hospitals, and patients. It is the beginning of the true digital healthcare age," Butterfield said.
GE Healthcare also announced that the company's Centricity® Health Information Exchange Services is supporting a new chronic disease management program launched by Vermont Information Technology Leaders (VITL) in late December, making the Vermont Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) one of the first to implement a HITSP-compliant disease management program.
"GE Healthcare is a strong, trusted partner with the experience, knowledge, and focus to help make our vision of community health a reality," said Greg Farnum, President of VITL. "The VITL HIE architecture is perfectly aligned with HITSP and IHE, and we expect this to accelerate our adoption and reduce start up and long-term costs."
The announcements were made at the 2008 Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference & Exhibition being held this week at Orlando's Orange County Convention Center.
IHE Profiles Cross-Tested by GE Healthcare at the IHE 2008 North American Connectathon, by domain:
IT Infrastructure
- Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS.a and XDS.b)
- Patient Identify Cross Reference (PIX)
- Patient Demographics Query (PDQ)
- Basic Patient Privacy Consents (BPPC)
- Cross Enterprise Sharing of Scanned Documents (XDS-SD)
- Audit Trail and Node Authentication (ATNA)
- Consistent Time (CT)
Patient Care Coordination
- Cross Enterprise Sharing of Medical Summaries (XDS-MS)
- Exchange of Personal Health Records (XPHR)
- Emergency Department Referral (EDR)
- Emergency Department Encounter Summary (EDES)
- Antepartum Summary (APS)
- Functional Status Assessments (FSA)
Laboratory
- Sharing Laboratory Reports (XD-LAB)
Radiology
- Cross Enterprise Document Sharing of Images (XDS-I)
- Structured Workflow (SWF)
- Evidence Documents (ED)
- Portable Data for Imaging (PDI)
- Patient Information Reconciliation (PIR)
- Access to Radiology Information (ARI)
- Nuclear Medicine for Imaging (NMI)
- Mammography (MAMMO)
Cardiology
- Request ECG for Display (ECG)
- Echocardiogram (ECHO)
- Stress Testing (STRESS)
- Evidence Documents (ED-CARD)
Patient Care Devices
- Device Enterprise Communications (DEC)
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.
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