GE Healthcare launches vendor-neutral clinical archiving solution

GE Healthcare has launched a new clinical archiving solution that meets the increasing demand for vendor-neutral systems.

Centricity Clinical Archive consists of a suite of products and services designed to provide an end-to-end solution. Unlike vendor neutral archives that only support departmental DICOM consolidation, it has been designed to help healthcare systems streamline enterprise-level and community-wide collaboration with performance through a breadth of interoperability standards, including IHE-XDS, HL7, and DICOM.

Rather than forcing customers to build their own solution with the complexity of multiple vendor relationships, GE Healthcare offers a Go-Live Experience that provides all solution planning, implementation, service, and management through a single team of clinical and IT experts.

“There is a lot of buzz out there about vendor neutral archives,” said Mike Jackman, vice president and general manager of GE Healthcare IT.

“At GE Healthcare IT, we define it as a four-level model for medical information management, which helps connect and share information across multiple departments, specialties, locations and vendors, through a breadth of interoperability standards. This solution is the key to enable this effective collaboration, bringing benefits across the organisation to the IT departments, the physician and ultimately the patient. ”

The core offering of Centricity Clinical Archive provides a multi-ology, multi-site clinical content repository that enables consolidation of IT infrastructure for archiving and managing unstructured medical content including images, reports and documents using industry standards. Its enterprise-wide, zero footprint clinical viewer and IHE-XDS registry provide anywhere, anytime/near instant access to a patient clinical record. In addition, a master patient index links patient records across network boundaries, while the messaging interface engine combines workflow systems like HIS and RIS to update an information repository and keep information consistent across systems. It also equips IT administrators with a choice of virtual server deployment to save data centre space, disaster recovery by connecting to cloud storage, and high reliability with standardised configurations.