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News: PatientKeeper Selected By GE Healthcare to Bring Advanced Mobile Healthcare Solutions to MDs |
 PatientKeeper® announced that GE Healthcare has selected its mobile software technology. GE Healthcare will market and sell PatientKeeper software as Centricity® Physician Office Mobile™. PatientKeeper, a leading provider of mobile software solutions for healthcare, and GE Healthcare have partnered to offer tightly integrated mobile applications that will enable physicians to simultaneously view the patient's electronic medical record, use powerful clinical decision support tools, accurately record charges for medical treatments, and more – all with one mobile device. Centricity Mobile, which will be unveiled and demonstrated at the 2005 HIMSS Conference, February 13-17, Dallas, TX, will initially include charge capture, with other popular PatientKeeper applications being added over time. The new offering will be available to both new and existing customers.
Physicians own more technology (e.g., PDAs and smartphones) and go online more often than do other consumers. According to a North American Benchmark Study by Forrester Research, physicians are five times as likely to carry a personal digital assistant, such as a Palm OS or PocketPC device, than are typical consumers. Gartner, Inc. estimates that one in two doctors use PDAs.
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