BARRINGTON, IL, DECEMBER 19, 2008 - GE Healthcare IT, a leading provider of healthcare information technology, announced today an initiative to simplify physician participation in Medicare's Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI). GE Healthcare's Medical Quality Improvement Consortium (MQIC) quality data system was selected by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) as a reporting registry for the 2008 program, and GE expects this registry certification to continue in 2009.
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Puget Sound Family Physicians lends expertise to community practices; EMR implementations funded by regional medical center through Stark Relaxation Law
BARRINGTON, IL, December 10, 2008 -- GE Healthcare IT, a leading provider of healthcare information technology, today recognized Puget Sound Family Physicians for its exemplary use of GE Centricity Electronic Medical Record (EMR) to extend the benefits of "going digital" to practices and patients in the greater Seattle area.
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PRINCETON, NJ, NOV. 21, 2008---A first-ever 208-person study comparing the renal safety, occurrence of cardiovascular adverse events and diagnostic image quality of GE Healthcare's isosmolar contrast media (CM) iodixanol (VisipaqueTM) and the low-osmolar CM iopromide in select patients concluded iodixanol is associated with lower incidence of contrast-induced neuropathy (CIN) and cardiovascular events (CV) than iopromide, when used in patients with chronic kidney disease.
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Delivers powerful combination of the highest sensitivity in the industry, next generation of MotionFree technology, high definition imaging, fast reconstruction with the IBM BladeCenter®
MUNICH, Germany--13 October 2008-- Continuing its leadership in PET/CT technology, GE Healthcare announced the introduction of Discovery PET/CT 600, GE Healthcare's newest positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) system at the annual meeting of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) Congress in Munich.