GE Healthcare Centricity Clinical Archive - Manual (Page 6)

Centricity Clinical Archive:
The customer experience
Centricity Clinical Archive Solution includes:
Product and Components
• Centricity Enterprise Archive that provides a multi‑ology,
multi-site clinical content repository enabling consolidation
of IT infrastructure for archiving and managing unstructured
medical content (images, reports, documents etc.) using
DICOM and IHE‑XDS.
• Centricity Enterprise Web‑Patient Information view that is a
zero footprint clinician viewer providing anywhere anytime
access
2 to patient clinical records to the care providers.
• An IHE‑XDS registry from Caradigm™ that stores the
catalog of patient clinical information.
• An Enterprise Master Patient Index from NextGate™ to link
patient records across network boundaries
• Centricity Clinical Gateway that provides the messaging
interface engine to combine workflow systems like HIS and
RIS to update information repository and keep information
consistent across systems.
• A device interface engine from PACSGEAR PacsSCAN™ to
connect non-standard devices and systems to store data
in either DICOM or IHE‑XDS.
Service offerings:
• Assess the current status and future needs including number
and type of departmental systems, IT infrastructure, and
processes to provide recommendations for long term
sustainable data management and sharing.
• Professional services to help interface existing departmental
IT systems from various vendors with the solution, ensuring
regular consolidation of information (DICOM & non‑DICOM).
• A one time service to migrate and link existing historical
data from the departmental systems.
GE Healthcare’s Diagnostic Imaging System First
in Canada to Achieve Infoway Certification
Centricity Clinical Archive’s highly scalable and standards-
compliant data repository has helped Southwestern
Ontario Diagnostic Imaging Network, Canada connect
the imaging departments of the networks 62 hospitals
and seven different RIS/PACS systems to a single, central
repository, helping provide web-based information access
to over 1,600 clinicians across the region. GE Healthcare
is the first IT system in its class to achieve Infoway
certification, meeting stringent national DI‑r certification
requirements. Infoway Certification Services provides a
national process to certify trusted, standards-based health
information solutions.
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“I congratulate GE Healthcare Canada for having their
Centricity Enterprise Archive (Centricity Clinical Archive
data repository) v4.0 DI‑r Class Diagnostic Imaging System
application become the first in its class to successfully
complete the Infoway certification process,” says Richard
Alvarez, President and CEO, Canada Health Infoway.
“Digital diagnostic imaging has already played a role
in generating cost savings and efficiencies of more than
$800 million annually across Canada, and we believe
that as the interoperability and use of solutions matures,
further gains are possible.”
The Infoway certification is a result of Centricity Enterprise
Archive’s demonstrated performance and scalability in
large implementations with vendor neutral support of
multiple applications.
“Value for money is crucial when investing in any DI‑r
system,” said Bruce Sutton, Vice President and Chief
Information Officer of the Thunder Bay Regional Health
Sciences Centre and member of the North Eastern Ontario
Diagnostic Imaging Network’s management committee.
“Infoway certification demonstrates compliance with
national standards, which is key when considering which
product to choose.”
Centricity Clinical Archive leverages industry standards, providing the IHE-compliant platform you need to connect disparate
multi-site, multi-vendor systems. GE Healthcare has long experience implementing imaging data repositories in various
heterogeneous environments. Centricity Enterprise Archive, the imaging repository for Centricity Clinical Archive solution,
has been running in many parts of the world for several years, where it has demonstrated performance and scalability
in large implementations, including Sweden, Canada, France, United States, and United Kingdom, and smoothly managed
191 million studies worldwide in 2011.
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1 Numbers obtained from 2011 Enterprise Archive global install base
2 Where there is an internet connection available
3 https://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/index.php/news-media/current-news-releases/
ge-healthcares-diagnostic-imaging-system-first-in-canada-to-achieve-infoway-certification