* Installed at Aspetar Hospital, Qatar's first Sports Medicine Hospital in Doha
* Seamless connectivity across care areas
* Centricity Enterprise helps to optimize hospital's efficiency and capacity from 'day one' of their operation
Dubai, UAE; January 27, 2009: Recently GE Healthcare unveiled its "digital day one" initiative aimed at enhancing a hospital's performance from the first day of operation. Aspetar, the Qatar Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, the first and only Sports Medicine Hospital in Doha, aiming to deliver world class care and services, is a regional example in which GE's Centricity Enterprise, a hospital wide IT solution, as well as Clinical Information Systems supported a 'digital day one' installation. Both systems are fully operational since basically the first day the hospital went live in early 2007.
Aspetar's proactive IT strategy led to the improvement of the hospital's overall performance while optimizing patient care with improved quality, efficiency and the ability to treat more patients from 'day one'. "We wanted the latest digital technology in every aspect of our operation and clinical practice," said Tom Bell, Chief Operating Officer at Aspetar Hospital. "Together with GE Healthcare, we have implemented healthcare IT software in record time, making a significant contribution toward Aspetar Hospital's global goal of delivering best demonstrated healthcare technology."
GE's Centricity Enterprise is an ideal choice to support this goal. The solution offers comprehensive lifetime health records, capabilities to promote patient management as well as clinical excellence. Integrated multi-disciplinary modules promote consistency of care with seamless connectivity across modalities and delivering greater efficiency as well as a streamlined paper-light environment.
"The need for enterprise-wide IT solutions is playing a crucial role in the growing and fast developing healthcare markets of the Middle East region. With digital data management, costs are kept under control," said Juergen Reyinger, Vice President and General Manager of GE Healthcare IT's business. "We are pleased to support these markets with our Centricity Enterprise solution for a seamless management of complex healthcare systems. Our focus is to continue being a strong and reliable partner for our customers to help them cope with today's economic, social and demographic challenges," he concluded.
At this year's Arab Health in Dubai, GE Healthcare's extensive portfolio of Enterprise, Imaging and Clinical IT solutions will be on display.
Note to Editors
About Aspetar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital:
Inspired by the vision of HH Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al-Thani, the Special Envoy to the Emir HH Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, and directed by Dr Mohammed G A Al-Maadheed, Aspetar has selected a host of talented and highly experienced medical consultants who are leading specialists in their fields to provide world class care and services in a truly modern, state-of-the art hospital.
The hospital meets international standards in its treatment of orthopaedic problems and athletic injuries and uses the latest technology to guide patients through rehabilitation to complete recovery. But, Aspetar offers more than just treatment and rehabilitation. Aspetar's staff are also leading experts in fitness, nutrition and training techniques to help athletes maximise their performance both in training and competition and push the boundaries of sports medicine and treatment to assist future generations of athletes, whether at the social or elite level.
Aspetar is situated within Aspire Zone, a modern multi-purpose leisure and recreation complex that played host to the 2006 Asian Games and now offers a range of facilities for the active and social athlete. www.en.aspetar.com.
About GE Healthcare:
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest.
GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a US$17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com.
Kelly Home
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