GE Healthcare today announced the release of Centricity Advance – Mobile, a native Apple iPad application designed for primary care physicians in small practices. With Centricity Advance – Mobile, clinicians utilizing GE Healthcare’s Centricity Advance, a complete web-based EMR and practice management system, won’t be tethered to their desktops. As Centricity Advance customers, they can walk with their iPad® wherever they like while continuing to interact with the patient and the patient record.
Centricity Advance – Mobile phases out cumbersome paper note-taking when physicians are away from their computers, allowing them to enter information in a way to which they’re accustomed. It also provides true anytime, anywhere access to the information they need, formatted for the device they’re viewing it on. Centricity Advance – Mobile unleashes the power of mobility and turns the iPad into a fully untethered digital “notepad” that the clinician can use when completing summary notes.
“This is the missing piece,” said Dr. Medhavi Jogi, Houston Endocrinologist and Centricity Advance – Mobile user, in the press release. “Now I can use my iPad exactly as I’d use a notepad and I don’t miss a single point of communication with the patient. Better still, it eliminates the perceived barrier that some patients feel when I’m sitting at a computer entering data. It’s a much more natural form of interaction.”
Centricity Advance – Mobile frees clinicians from cords and breaks down perceived communication barriers around EMR. The mobile application enables immediate response to patient requests, such as prescription refills and emailed questions, and allows a physician to attend to tasks even when away from the office. In addition, physicians can now use their iPad to order, digitally sign and route a new prescription to a pharmacy.
“We are pleased to be able to offer our Centricity Advance users a new medium for interacting with the patient record and the patient, representing the true value of healthcare IT,” said Mike Friguletto, Vice President and General Manager of GE Healthcare IT’s Clinical Business Solutions, in the press release.
Centricity Advance – Mobile is an extension of GE’s Centricity Advance platform. A web-based offering, Centricity Advance is an EMR, Practice Management, and Patient Portal solution specifically designed for medical practices with 10 or fewer physicians. Centricity Advance helps practices at every point of EMR implementation and use, including: going paperless, lowering setup and implementation costs, system training, creating custom workflow templates, and providing a highly usable, HHS-certified EMR that is positioned to help them achieve meaningful use.
Centricity Advance and the Centricity Advance – Mobile iPad application are available today.
More info and download link via Apple’s App Store here.
Source: GE Healthcare
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Cubert” for the heads up.]
I’ll comment because the article came from Cubert. But I think it’ll only be worth 2¢, or $0.02, as I don’t know zilch about what’s appropriate for the medical profession.
The thing that struck me upon first reading was I thought the app was for treating eccentric people in hospitals.
It is.
Will be interesting to see how it holds up to Dr Kronis. That’s when it appears in the App store from GE..
So, the app is free, but how much is the Centricity Advance software on your computer?
The link goes to GE Healthcare apps in iTunes. It won’t show this app, since the seller is General Electric Company. Search for CA Mobile.
Don’t you just hate it when the person who sent the link to MDN doesn’t post anything on that thread?
GE Healthcare- You Can Buy Better, But You Can’t Pay More…
This company that was bailed out by the taxpayers under TARP even as it’s then 100% owned CNBC channel was pimping ‘Free Market Capitalism’ has decided to move it’s entire Medical Imaging business to China. Not the manufacturing- everything.
What a nice Thank You to the American people who kept this company from insolvency/bankruptcy.