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.