GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., will work with Providence Health & Services of Portland, OR, to develop a new connectivity platform to integrate electronic records from hospitals with GE's Centricity electronic medical record (EMR).
The initiative will leverage GE's Centricity health information exchange (HIE) services and standards developed by the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) to advance inpatient and outpatient connectivity and interoperability.
Providence Health System's seven Oregon-based hospitals and associated clinics, as well as local clinicians not associated with the health system who are using Centricity EMR, will collect, share, and access patient information through a standards-based health information exchange.
GE made the announcement at this week's Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) meeting in Chicago.
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