GE Healthcare announced it has recognized Cottage Health System from Santa Barbara, Calif., and Erlanger Health System from Chattanooga, Tenn., for transforming patient care through the implementation of GE Centricity Perioperative solutions.
The perioperative management and anesthesia information management systems provider has announced the winners of its third annual Customer Innovation Awards (CIA), which recognize significant improvements in clinical efficiency and financial performance.
Each year, Centricity Perioperative Customer Innovation program provides a platform for users to share best practices and highlight model implementation of GE Centricity Perioperative technology.
Laurent Rotival, vice president and general manager, GE Healthcare IT noted that GE’s healthymagination campaign is focused on enhancing patient care, and they are pleased to recognize companies that are using the innovative deployment of GE technology to transform healthcare.
GE Healthcare notes Cottage Health System that was awarded the prestigious 2009 Innovator of the Year award for its inventive process aiding in capturing the data required for regulatory and compliance reporting.
Staff that automates the process with Centricity Perioperative solutions can save an average of more than 28 hours each week. These solutions also allow the provider to accurately capture meaningful data.
Erlanger Health System was able to significantly improve the extensive documentation process a facility needs to follow for each specimen collected in the operating room. By using the automated processes embedded in Centricity Perioperative, the System improved documentation speed and accuracy.
All these factors eventually reduced the workload of the OR, pathology and microbiology lab staffs.
“Cancer staging procedures can typically send at least 15 specimens to the Pathology Department for processing,” said Patricia McMeen, RN, nurse analyst at Erlanger. “Each case used to take our nurses roughly 15 minutes just to fill out redundant paperwork. Our automated process cuts that time to an average of five minutes, helps increase accuracy and gives the timesavings back to the patients, where it belongs. Our physicans and patients also benefit from quicker turnaround on specimen processing due to increased accuracy and legibility.”
Anuradha Shukla is a contributing editor for HealthTechZone. To read more of Anuradha’s article, please visit her columnist page.Edited by
Marisa Torrieri
