GE Healthcare IT, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announced an agreement with Euromedic Diagnostics that will implement web-based PACS solutions in their Poland and Hungary-based healthcare institutions. The installations are underway, with plans to outfit 17 Polish and 11 Hungarian sites while establishing central data centers in both countries.
Web-based Centricity PACS technologies will create new opportunities for more effective cooperation among health professionals, while driving PACS evolution and teleradiology offerings to the next level. Not only will the solution allow a simple image transfer from one hospital to another, but it will provide integrated advanced workflow solutions, over great distances, between multiple healthcare providers.
The primary goal of implementing the web-based Centricity PACS solution is to improve the radiology and clinical workflow, and efficiency, at Euromedic's healthcare centers throughout the countries.
"GE Healthcare is a recognized provider in healthcare IT solutions," said Dr. Piotr Janicki, CEO of Euromedic International Poland. "Based on the long history of successful cooperation between us, as well as the superior technical features of the GE PACS installation, we have decided to rely on a solution that fulfills our needs and creates added value for our organization."
With the fast and simple access to patient information this solution delivers, Euromedic can increase the efficiency of their providers' daily routines. Radiologists and clinicians can consult, report and diagnose without the boundaries of time, location or institution. They can even access the system from home, using a broadband Internet connection.
"By empowering our staff with innovative IT technology, we are significantly improving the services to our patients. This clearly gives us a great technological advantage," Dr. Janicki emphasized.
"Our new partnership with Euromedic will accelerate the next wave of technological advances in Poland's and Hungary's healthcare systems," said Juergen Reyinger, vice president and general manager of GE Healthcare IT Europe, Middle East and Africa. "Looking to connect multiple institutions, vendors and the local population with a fully integrated IT solution, this ambitious project will definitely be one of Eastern Europe’s role model installations."
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About Euromedic Diagnostics
Euromedic is one of the largest healthcare investors and operator through Private Public Partnerships (PPP) in Europe. The company performs best-in-class Radiological Diagnostic, Clinical Laboratory, Renal Care and Cancer Treatment services in its 201 wholly owned medical centres. Growth is continuous, and the company is also driving treatment delivery to areas where none yet exists. Employing some of the best diagnostic professionals, Euromedic is also becoming a leading force behind remote diagnostics – offering multi-modality Teleradiology services.
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our broad expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies, performance improvement and performance solutions services help our customers to deliver better care to more people around the world at a lower cost. In addition, we partner with healthcare leaders, striving to leverage the global policy change necessary to implement a successful shift to sustainable healthcare systems.
Our "healthymagination" vision for the future invites the world to join us on our journey as we continuously develop innovations focused on reducing costs, increasing access and improving quality and efficiency around the world. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a US$17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com.