DALLAS - GE Healthcare is emphasizing its vision of digital, wireless, and paperless healthcare in its booth at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) meeting this week.
In new technology introductions, the Waukesha, WI-based vendor is showing Health Kiosks, which allow patients to "withdraw" from and "deposit" information into their healthcare records at each doctor's office or facility they visit.
GE is also presenting technology designed to aid in the development of a secure and interoperable exchange of healthcare information among patients and caregivers over a national health information network. The technology, called Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Cross -- Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS), will be used in national and regional community collaboration pilot programs, GE said.
In addition, GE is discussing recent agreements to provide its IT technologies to Duke University's Duke Health network and the U.S. government's TriCare Management Activity, which is the healthcare provider for the Department of Defense.
In PACS, GE is showing off its Centricity AW Suite, which is now commercially available. The company is also highlighting Centricity 2.1, which includes improvements such as new high availability technology to offer a fully replicated PACS network, as well as an internal master patient index (MPI).
By AuntMinnie.com staff writersFebruary 16, 2005
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