During the HIMSS22 global event, GE Healthcare announced the launch of Edison, a new Digital Health platform.
During the HIMSS global event that took place in Orlando, FL, the General Electric company, through its GE Healthcare division, announced the launch of Edison, a Digital Health platform for hospitals and health systems.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), digital technologies have the potential not only to facilitate access to health services and improve their quality, but also to reduce costs and improve health systems.
As explained by GE Healthcare, Edison will be a data aggregation platform, a technique for collecting information from databases for the creation of datasets for the most efficient processing of health information. It will also have an Artificial Intelligence (AI) engine.
This new system will base its information on data from the hospital system, electronic medical records, laboratory images, genomic research, among others. Medical professionals will be able to access this data from their patients on the same platform, reducing workload and waiting times for patients.
The platform aims to enable hospitals and healthcare systems to effectively and successfully implement new clinical, workflow, analytics and AI tools. In this sense, these tools are intended to improve the provision of services and promote the use of information technologies.
Amit Phadnis, Chief Digital Officer of GE Healthcare, commented that the platform "is being designed to enable healthcare systems to have a single platform on which to host and integrate applications into clinical workflows." In this way, GE Healthcare's Digital Health platform will be able to adopt open interfaces from third-party providers and developers.
For her part, Liz Porter, president of Leidos Health Group, a company that works with GE Healthcare, explained the following: “The platform will help reduce digital friction throughout the company and accelerate the implementation of digital solutions at scale. This will help healthcare providers improve efficiency and drive better care for patients."
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