GE Healthcare this week announced the launch of eHealth, a new business unit that is designed to enhance connectivity across multiple healthcare facilities while ensuring stringent security requirements.
The eHealth division is offering a suite of products that confront one of the most vexing problems in healthcare: the fragmentation of clinical information residing in a variety of IT systems across multiple institutions, according to the Chalfont St. Giles, U.K.-based company. The division is part of GE's healthymagination initiative.
Components of the eHealth business model include a Web-based system with privacy and security features that creates individual patient health records, the GE Centricity Health Information Exchange infrastructure, and standards-based patient identification matching capabilities via master patient index (MPI) technology.
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