Harrison deploys GE HIE tech
Harrison Medical Center has deployed an HIE using GE Healthcare’s bi-directional eHealth Information Exchange technology.
Harrison, a 297-bed acute-care organization, provides medical, surgical and emergency services in Bremerton, Silverdale, Port Orchard, Belfair and Poulsbo, Wash. Each year, Harrison supports more than 75,000 ER visits, 17,000 in-patient visits and 195,000 outpatient visits across its five locations.
Having transitioned to EMRs between 2008 and 2010, the medical center has harnessed GE’s eHealth capabilities to enable more than 400 physicians with disparate EMRs to share information and collaborate across facilities.
Physicians can search and view patient history and physicals, lab and pathology reports from within their EMR workflow. GE’s HIE supports the company’s Centricity EMR used by Harrison’s affiliated physicians, as well as non-GE clinical software products, the Barrington, Ill., company stated.
Harrison is using NextGate’s MatchMetrix electronic master patient index (EMPI) for matching and linking patient information in the absence of a common identifier. The EMPI uses optimized matching algorithms to identify, index and resolve related patient records scattered among different applications and disparate systems, GE Healthcare added.
Harrison, a 297-bed acute-care organization, provides medical, surgical and emergency services in Bremerton, Silverdale, Port Orchard, Belfair and Poulsbo, Wash. Each year, Harrison supports more than 75,000 ER visits, 17,000 in-patient visits and 195,000 outpatient visits across its five locations.
Having transitioned to EMRs between 2008 and 2010, the medical center has harnessed GE’s eHealth capabilities to enable more than 400 physicians with disparate EMRs to share information and collaborate across facilities.
Physicians can search and view patient history and physicals, lab and pathology reports from within their EMR workflow. GE’s HIE supports the company’s Centricity EMR used by Harrison’s affiliated physicians, as well as non-GE clinical software products, the Barrington, Ill., company stated.
Harrison is using NextGate’s MatchMetrix electronic master patient index (EMPI) for matching and linking patient information in the absence of a common identifier. The EMPI uses optimized matching algorithms to identify, index and resolve related patient records scattered among different applications and disparate systems, GE Healthcare added.