GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., has announced a series of new initiatives designed to make it easier for healthcare practices to implement healthcare information technology.
In a press conference in New York City, GE announced its Digital Day One program, designed to "reduce healthcare's digital divide" in both emerging and mature markets, the company said. The program involves an "IT starter kit" that the company hopes to roll out to more than 3,000 physician offices and new hospitals by 2012. The company claims that pilot sites using the starter kit improved efficiency by 33% in the construction of new hospitals.
In the second initiative, GE has partnered with Intermountain Healthcare and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, to enable the sharing of newly published medical breakthroughs and best practices with healthcare providers via ongoing updates applicable to their specific areas of expertise. New clinical findings would automatically be sent to physicians, giving them access to the most up-to-date published information.
Finally, GE announced a collaboration with Intermountain Healthcare, Montefiore Medical Center, the Mayo Clinic, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to connect disparate healthcare IT systems, allowing patients to share their data with various medical professionals.
As part of the collaboration, GE and its partners have agreed to commit more than $200 million and 400 engineers over the course of development. The partners also introduced a series of monitoring, enterprise, and integration solutions as the first phase of this framework.
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