Initiate Systems, Inc., a leader in master data management (MDM) solutions that enable information sharing and improve data quality, announced today that two of the company=92s solutions have been named MDM Products of the Year by SearchDataManagement.com's 2008 Products of the Year program. Initiate=AE Interoperable Health won the Gold Award in the MDM category, and Initiate Master Data Service=AE Platform v8.5 won the Bronze Award in the same category.
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GE Healthcare, a leading provider of healthcare information technology, has announced a collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Public Health Informatics. The project will demonstrate the capability of a public health agency to utilize electronic medical record (EMR) systems to provide clinicians with timely, patient-specific information at the point of care.
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GE Healthcare, a leading provider of healthcare information technology, today announced it will work with Providence Health & Services (Portland, Ore.) to develop a new connectivity platform to integrate electronic records from hospitals with GE Healthcare's CentricityR Electronic Medical Record (EMR), a widely used EMR designed for the ambulatory setting. The solution will leverage GE's Centricity Health Information Exchange (HIE) Services and standards developed by the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) to advance in-patient and outpatient connectivity and interoperability. Providence Health System's seven Oregon-based hospitals and associated clinics, as well as local clinicians not associated with the health system who are using Centricity EMR, will collect, share and access critical patient information through a standards-based health information exchange.
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