GE updates EMR to integrate with non-GE inpatient systems
GE Healthcare has linked its EMR software with several non-GE inpatient systems, providing a single view of the patient record, using a new interoperability application.
Two beta sites--Capital Region Healthcare in Concord, N.H., and Decatur Memorial Hospital in Decatur, Ill.--will install the new application in early 2011, with general availability expected later in the year.
The standards-based application takes a continuity-of-care document, extracts select patient data and delivers drug interaction problems, allergies and other medication information into the EMR as discrete data, according to GE Healthcare, of Barrington, Ill.
After clinician review and approval, the data are accepted as native to the EMR, with the ability to check for drug interactions.
Two beta sites--Capital Region Healthcare in Concord, N.H., and Decatur Memorial Hospital in Decatur, Ill.--will install the new application in early 2011, with general availability expected later in the year.
The standards-based application takes a continuity-of-care document, extracts select patient data and delivers drug interaction problems, allergies and other medication information into the EMR as discrete data, according to GE Healthcare, of Barrington, Ill.
After clinician review and approval, the data are accepted as native to the EMR, with the ability to check for drug interactions.