BARRINGTON, Ill. – June 28, 2010 – GE Healthcare, a provider of healthcare information technology, today announced the successful implementation of its Centricity Perioperative solution at the University of Tennessee (UT) Medical Center (Knoxville, Tenn.). The solution covers a total of 27 operating rooms and 10 ancillary rooms at the Level I Trauma Center and academic medical center. The implementation included Centricity Perioperative Suite for Nursing Documentation and Centricity Perioperative Anesthesia Information System.
Centricity Perioperative, a comprehensive clinical and business solution, provides a bridge to support patient-centric work flow by creating a link to patient information shared by clinicians and anesthesiologists. Making synchronized nursing and anesthesia information available at all points of the care cycle, it enables clinicians to make key clinical decisions and document each step more accurately and efficiently. Interfacing with the hospital’s clinical information system enhances enables the provider to enhance patient safety and improves patient data throughput, mitigating historical interoperability challenges between hospital solutions such as allergy and lab data.
