Tennessee provider to develop regional HIE with GE

Erlanger Health System, a Chattanooga, Tenn.-based nonprofit academic teaching center, will implement of a regional health information exchange (HIE) using GE Healthcare’s eHealth Information Exchange to help the flow of patient information among Erlanger’s four hospitals and 13 outpatient facilities.

Erlanger serves a four-state region and will be able to share clinical summaries with third-party inpatient and emergency department systems, as well as GE Healthcare’s Centricity EMR used in outpatient facilities, GE, of Barrington, Ill., stated.

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