CHICAGO, Nov. 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The GE Health
Cloud1 was unveiled today at the 101st annual
Radiological Society of North
America (RSNA) meeting in Chicago. Designed exclusively for the
healthcare industry, the new cloud ecosystem and its applications
will connect radiologists and clinicians to speed, efficiency and
collaboration across care pathways and multidisciplinary teams –
both inside and outside the hospital setting.
"Our ultimate goal is to help improve patient care and drive
superior clinical, financial and operational outcomes alongside
healthcare providers," said Jeff
Immelt, Chairman and CEO of GE. "As the digital
industrial leader, we are betting big on the GE Health Cloud. By
connecting clinicians with the insights needed, when and where they
need them, clinicians can take action to improve healthcare
outcomes and delivery around the globe."
Today, survey data shows that up to 35 percent of patient cases
are misdiagnosed, partly due to a lack of access to images, data
and records.2 Industry consolidation and cost pressures
are squeezing margins and pushing providers beyond hospitals' four
walls. The interoperability of systems could save healthcare
ecosystems $30 billion per
year.3 The cloud-based apps quickly connect clinicians
with imaging, data, analytics, insights – and other clinicians – to
increase efficiency, effectiveness and collaboration.
"Healthcare devices are generating enormous amounts of data, and
that data is expected to increase 50-fold by 20204,"
said John Flannery, President and
CEO for GE Healthcare. "The GE Health Cloud can help unlock the
value of this data, quickly and seamlessly for better patient care.
The GE Health Cloud will help clinicians turn data into insights,
and insights into tangible actions for decision-makers to drive
better outcomes."
The new cloud will connect to more than 500,000 GE imaging
machines, shifting image post-processing from on-site machines to
the cloud. From the cloud, 3-D images can then be viewed on
multiple devices – inside and outside the hospital
setting.5 The GE Health Cloud and apps will give
clinicians on-demand, flexible computing power that can scale up or
down.
By opening its cloud for third party app development, GE intends
to attract independent software vendors (ISVs) to develop their
apps in the new cloud ecosystem.
The new health cloud follows GE's September Minds + Machines
announcement of the company's transformation to becoming the
world's leading digital industrial company. There, Immelt pointed
to new data that revealed a potential 20 percent increase in
performance through new software and products powered by
PredixTM, GE's cloud platform. The GE Health Cloud is
the first industry-specific cloud to be built on the Predix
platform.
NEW APPS PUSH SPEED AND EFFICIENCY
GE Healthcare
announced four new radiology apps at RSNA today that will run in
the new cloud – all targeted at advanced imaging and clinical
collaboration.
"Our new apps will bring incredible computing and mobility power
to radiologists and clinicians," said Jan De Witte, President and CEO of GE Healthcare
IT. "By enhancing radiologists' speed and confidence through
the apps, we can help improve their ability to collaborate with
referring clinicians inside and outside the hospital."
The new apps announced today include:
- CentricityTM Cloud Advanced
Visualization* –This app will manage image
post-processing and allow radiologists and clinicians to view
advanced 3-D images anytime, anywhere.6
- Centricity Multi-Disciplinary Team Virtual
Meeting* – This app will help multidisciplinary
teams do collaborative care planning, ultimately helping
radiologists and pathologists reduce the time they spend preparing
for meetings by up to 20 percent.7
- Centricity Case Exchange* – This latest
edition of Centricity Case Exchange will allow affiliated and
non-affiliated systems to share images and reports and quickly
confer on patient cases and treatment plans.
- Centricity Image Access Portal* - This app
will provide affiliated and non-affiliated physicians with
longitudinal patient imaging data, potentially improving turnaround
times for patient reports.
CLOUD SPURS COLLABORATION, SPARKS INNOVATION
The cloud
may soon become one of the greatest healthcare innovation enablers
of the 21st century. Developers, hospitals, academic
institutions and manufacturers will come together to solve for
improved patient care across disease areas and care pathways,
departments, hospitals and freestanding clinics.
"Building on our long partnership, UPMC and GE Healthcare are
collaborating on cloud-based applications that promise to transform
the delivery of health care as we know it," said Rasu Shrestha, M.D., M.B.A., Chief Innovation
Officer for UPMC. "These innovations will bring measurable
changes that benefit patients and physicians."
Apps on the GE Health Cloud will be delivered on a subscription
basis, enabling hospitals and health systems to shift computing
expense to a variable cost model. The cloud ecosystem will include
a robust Software Development Toolkit (SDK), and its app store will
host and promote new software solutions. To help ISVs run their
cloud businesses more profitably, the cloud will also include a
complete billing and subscription management infrastructure.
BEYOND THE GE HEALTH CLOUD AT RSNA
GE Healthcare made
several other innovation announcements at RSNA today,
including:
- ViosWorks28 – GE Healthcare introduces a
cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) solution that seeks to help solve
several cardiac MR challenges at once. With this free-breathing
scan, typically acquired in less than 10 minutes, ViosWorks can
simultaneously provide key elements of a cardiac MR exam: anatomy,
function and flow.
- LOGIQ TM E9 XDclear TM
2.09: This new LOGIQ E9 ultrasound system offers
complete ultrasound – head to toe, obese to thin, neonate to
geriatric – and extraordinary images across a wide variety of
cases, from the routine to the technically challenging. The system
optimizes the imaging from the pulse of the probe to each of its
pixels and every step in between, resulting in: 22 percent more
contrast,** 99 percent improved spatial
resolution** and 170 percent more image information.
**
- DoseWatch10 Explore – This web-based,
Microsoft Azure cloud-deployed dose management software tracks,
analyzes and reports practice-level dose data for GE computed
tomography (CT) systems. It is now available for select CT systems
in the United States. DoseWatch
Explore software can be used to quantify the benefits of low-dose
technology such as ASiR.
- MR Performance Excellence –This outcome-driven solution
is based on machine data, analytics, and advisory services and is
now available in the United
States. It drives measureable improvement of GE MR systems'
throughput, efficiency, utilization, productivity and report
turnaround time, resulting in reduced gap time between exams,
increased throughput and reduced exam time.
- Interventional ASSIST Packages – GE Healthcare is
showcasing its ASSIST brand, a collection of new interventional
imaging software packages designed for specific clinical
subspecialists and complex endovascular procedures to help
clinicians perform procedures with greater accuracy, dose
efficiency and confidence.
The GE Health Cloud will use key interoperability standards,
including FHIR, HL7 and DICOM – and will have full attestations for
HIPAA privacy compliance, and security including HITECH and
HITRUST, and SOC2 certification.
For more RSNA news and announcements, visit The Pulse @RSNA.
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 Healthcare (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. http://www.gehealthcare.com
About GE
GE (NYSE: GE) is the world's Digital
Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined
machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and
predictive. GE is organized around a global exchange of knowledge,
the "GE Store," through which each business shares and accesses the
same technology, markets, structure and intellect. Each invention
further fuels innovation and application across our industrial
sectors. With people, services, technology and scale, GE delivers
better outcomes for customers by speaking the language of industry.
www.ge.com
1 Any descriptions of future functionality reflect
current product direction, are for informational purposes only and
do not constitute a commitment to provide specific functionality.
Timing and availability are subject to change and applicable
regulatory approvals. Not for patient use. Not for sale.
2 "Types and Origins of Diagnostic Errors in Primary
Care Settings," Journal of American Medicine, 2013
3
http://www.westhealth.org/sites/default/files/The-Value-of-Medical-Device-Interoperability.pdf
4 CIO magazine. May
2013
5 Where internet access is available
6 Where internet access is available
7 BCM Medicine, 2007, "Multidisciplinary team meetings
and their impact on workflow in radiology and pathology
departments," Bridger Kane,
Saturnino Luz, D Sean O'Brian and
Ronan McDermott
8 This product is not commercially available for
sale
9 LOGIQ and XDclear are trademarks of General Electric
Company
* Any descriptions of future functionality reflect current product
direction, are for informational purposes only and do not
constitute a commitment to provide specific functionality. Timing
and availability are subject to change and applicable regulatory
approvals. Not for patient use. Not for sale.
**Compared to LOGIQ™ E9 with XDclear. LOGIQ and XDclear
are trademarks of General Electric Company
10 Trademark of General Electric Company
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