GE Healthcare Equipment Exceeds 4,000 Medical Records and 1,000 Imaging Exams at Rio 2016 Olympic Games
August 17 2016 - 1:00PM
Business Wire
Through innovative software the company is
providing team doctors with unprecedented medical record tracking
and analysis of thousands of health data points on each
Olympian
As one of the proud partners of Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic
Games, GE has supplied the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
with innovative health data management software to create
Electronic Medical Records (EMR) for all athletes and patients who
visit the Polyclinic in the Olympic Village. GE has been supporting
team doctors and more than 10,500 athletes competing at the Games.
This year’s use of the EMR system has already tracked over 4,000
medical records, including 1,085 diagnostic imaging exams that were
performed at the Polyclinic in the Athletes Village as well as at
the emergency centers in the competition arenas. Six hundred and
ten MRI, 345 X-ray and 130 ultrasound examinations were performed
since July 22, when the operations at the Polyclinic started.
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GE Healthcare Images that Heal: The
Polyclinic of the Olympic Games Athletes Village performs critical
magnetic resonance, ultrasounds and X-rays every day - exceeding
1,000 diagnostics in Rio 2016 (Graphic: Business Wire)
The EMR allows doctors to track and analyze in real-time
thousands of data points – from imaging scans to medications,
dental examinations and allergies of each of the athletes treated
at the Polyclinic. The digital solution provides reliable
information and helps ensure that clinicians know the medical
history of the athlete so they can plan for the best possible
outcome. More than 1,000 physicians are involved in caring for the
U.S. Olympic team alone.
This year marks the first time team doctors from around the
world are able to manage health records through a single system,
which enables the unification and analysis of all athletes’
information in the same cloud platform. The system is offered
entirely in English as well as Portuguese, in compliance with the
Brazilian health laws.
“The gold medal of medical services is a comprehensive,
integrated health solution for lesion prevention,” said Dr.
Richard Budgett, medical and scientific director for the
International Olympic Committee. “Without an adequate medical
record, it is difficult to predict which lesions will be more
common in given sports in the future.”
A version of Centricity Practice Solution (CPS), the EMR being
used at the Rio 2016 Games, was developed specifically for the
United States Olympic Committee (USOC). The USOC used CPS during
the London 2012 and Sochi 2014 Olympic Games, with outstanding and
critical results.
“In the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, we had an athlete
with a medulla lesion caused by his fall in the snow, which
compromised his breathing capacity,” said Dr. Bill Moreau, managing
director of the sports medicine division for the USOC. “The athlete
was taken to Frankfurt, Germany for additional care, but when he
arrived, he was not able to speak. When I accessed his health
record, I could verify that he had allergies, which would influence
his treatment, and I could see the number of anticoagulants he had
ingested,” Moreau said. “It is hard to imagine that just one or two
years ago, we would not have been able to access this
information.”
Among the advantages of the EMR is the information quality and
near real-time analysis and response, increasing the chance of
avoiding unnecessary procedures. According to the USOC, the U.S.
Women’s Olympic wrestling team saw a 60 percent reduction in
surgeries (primarily a result of shoulder lesions), after the
adoption of the EMR. This reduction can be at least partially
attributed to the ability of the EMR to translate data into
insights and identify trends in causation that can inform changes
in training and care.
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services to meet the demand for increased access, enhanced quality
and more affordable healthcare around the world. GE Healthcare
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professionals deliver great healthcare to their patients.
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