GE Healthcare Receives Carequality Certification, Advancing Data Exchange with Cloud Technology
October 12 2017 - 6:49PM
Business Wire
GE Healthcare today announced that it has received Carequality
certification to enable seamless data sharing by its ambulatory EHR
customers with thousands of hospitals, physician practices, payer
networks, vendors and consumer services nationally. Already a KLAS
top performer for interoperability impact on patient care1, GE
Healthcare built upon its existing expertise in providing digital
tools to improve care coordination with its certification.
Beyond meeting the criteria to participate in the Carequality
Interoperability Framework, which include legal, policy and
technical qualifications for interoperability, the company has
achieved effective integration of connected data and data exchange
processes into clinician workflows. It has done so by introducing
Centricity* Healthcare Connections Hospital Connect for Centricity*
Practice Solution and Centricity EMR customers, with a strong
emphasis on usability.
The Oregon Clinic, an ambulatory practice with 150 providers in
30 specialties, and GE Healthcare have piloted this
workflow-enabled model to enable the Clinic’s physicians to rapidly
access critical data from multiple external sources. With this
solution, the group expects to save individual clinicians at least
one hour per day on chart reviews and information searches, reduce
the number of duplicative tests and unnecessary services, and
deliver higher quality, more personalized care to patients.
“Seamless integration of clinical data across care settings
helps increase provider efficiency and enhance care quality,” said
Tim Fitzgerald, Director of IT at The Oregon Clinic.
By deploying this Carequality-enabled, workflow-focused
information exchange solution in the cloud, GE Healthcare customers
can expect a simple and scalable solution that supports clinical
decision support and population health management, as well as
better data sharing with patients, their caregivers and other
providers.
“As clinicians seek not just simplified data exchange but also
real-time data integration, analytics and insights, this solution
is a model for more effective care coordination and a critical
factor in the achievement of patient-centric value-based care,”
said Mark Segal, PhD, Vice President of Government and Industry
Affairs at GE Healthcare Digital.
For ambulatory practices, current referral and information flow
processes can waste provider and staff time and lack flexibility.
Hospitals face the same challenges and also suffer from limited or
no access to ambulatory records or detailed care plans, especially
after-hours. By providing real-time access to clinical data, the GE
Healthcare data exchange solution can help providers accomplish the
shared goals of reducing costs while ensuring patients receive more
comprehensive, personalized and efficient care.
As of August 2017, more than 260,000 physicians across
approximately 23,000 clinics and 850 hospitals can share health
data through Carequality. GE Healthcare customers using this
solution will have access to all of these exchange partners and the
many others who continue to come online each month. Additionally,
GE Healthcare customers will be able to take advantage of the
collaboration between CommonWell and Carequality. Announced in
December 2016, the collaboration enables subscribers of the two
initiatives, representing more than 90 percent of the acute EHR
market and nearly 60 percent of the ambulatory EHR market, to
exchange health information with each other.
* Centricity is a trademark of General Electric Company
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and
services to meet the demand for increased access, enhanced quality
and more affordable healthcare around the world. GE (NYSE: GE)
works on things that matter - great people and technologies taking
on tough challenges. From medical imaging, software & IT,
patient monitoring and diagnostics to drug discovery,
biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies and performance
improvement solutions, GE Healthcare helps medical professionals
deliver great healthcare to their patients. For more information
about GE Healthcare, visit our website
at www.gehealthcare.com.
About Carequality
Carequality is a national-level, consensus-built, common
interoperability framework to enable exchange between and among
health data sharing networks. Carequality brings together a diverse
group of representatives, including electronic health record (EHR)
vendors, record locator service (RLS) providers, and other types of
existing networks from the private sector and government, to
determine technical and policy agreements to enable data to flow
between and among networks, platforms, and geographies, much like
the telecommunications industry did for linking cell phone
networks. For more information, visit www.carequality.org and
follow us at twitter.com/carequalitynet.
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1 Source: KLAS, Interoperability 2016 From a Clinical View:
Frustrating Reality or Hopeful Future 2016, Figure 16, p. 26.
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