GE Medical Systems entered the market for clinical information systems with the launch of Integriti at this week's Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) meeting in New Orleans. The Waukesha, WI, company sees the launch as a major step forward in its expansion from radiology into other areas of healthcare information technology.
Integriti is based on a clinical information system developed by SEC, Inc., an Ann Arbor, MI, firm that GE acquired in November 2000. SEC has installed several of the systems at midwestern hospitals, but GE plans to roll out the system nationally with a major marketing push, according to Gregory Lucier, president and CEO of GE Medical Systems Information Technologies of Mount Prospect, IL.
At a HIMSS press conference, clinicians from the University of Michigan Health System discussed their work with Integriti, which went live at the facility 18 months ago. Integriti currently covers the information needs of the emergency, critical care, obstetrics, operating, and medsurg departments, and the university is expanding the system to serve as a portal for referring physicians and patients.
Lucier highlighted the fact that the SEC deal is one of 17 recent healthcare IT acquisitions that GE has made in recent years. Those companies have been bundled together to form GE's information technologies division, he said.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writersFebruary 9, 2001
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