GE donates EMR to Texas university

GE Healthcare is donating its Centricity Advance EMR platform to the University of Texas at Austin for educational purposes.

Geared to smaller, primary care physician practices, GE Centricity Advance is an EMR, practice management and patient portal technology delivered in a web-based, software-as-a-service model, according to GE Healthcare, based in Barrington, Ill.

The University of Texas at Austin’s Health IT Summer Certificate Program just graduated its first class of 54 students at the end of July where students used GE Centricity Advance software, GE Healthcare said.


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