A GE Healthcare, Alliance of Chicago and CDC Collaboration Project
ORLANDO -- Feb 21, 2011 -- After a full year of feasibility studies, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is taking a significant step toward providing public health information at the point-of-care. CDC is collaborating with GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), to explore the efficacy of actionable health alerts, delivered instantly to a physician's electronic medical record.
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GE Healthcare Exhibition to Feature Product Demonstrations, Discussions, Issue Dissections
BARRINGTON, Ill. -- Feb 18, 2011 -- At HIMSS11, GE Healthcare's focus will be on helping organizations reduce the complexity of achieving Meaningful Use and going beyond certification to optimizing care delivery. With the experience of helping thousands of organizations address Stage 1, and the commitment to being prepared for future requirements for healthcare providers, GE Healthcare will be a reliable resource ---at every stage.
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Chalfont St.Giles, 18 February, 2011 -- GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) announced today that on 1 April 2011, Kieran Murphy will be promoted to succeed current Life Sciences President and CEO Peter Ehrenheim who will retire from GE after a transition period on July 31 2011. Kieran is currently GE Healthcare's Head of Global Commercial Operations, Life Sciences.
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* Medical errors remain the 8th leading cause of death in the United States, costing an estimated $29 billion and resulting in as many as 98,000 patient deaths per year. [1]
* GE's PSO will be one of the nation's largest Patient Safety Organizations.
* GE's PSO helps healthcare providers improve patient safety by pinpointing the root causes of risk and creating a community working to mitigate those risks.
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Butler Health System will use HIE to Enhance Regional Care Coordination
BARRINGTON, Ill. -- Feb 10, 2011 -- GE Healthcare and Butler Health System, which serves Western Pennsylvania communities, have announced the planned implementation of a health information exchange to enable clinical information access between BHS and its affiliated and independent physicians, as well as referral hospitals outside of the immediate community.