GE plans to develop new health integration framework with Mayo, other clinics

GE has announced plans to develop a new health IT collaboration framework, commercializing an open architecture, working in partnership with some of the U.S.'s most prestigious healthcare institutions. GE and its partners, which include Intermountain Healthcare, UCSF, Mayo Clinic Rochester and Montefiore Medical Center, set plans to spend $200 million over the next five years on the effort. The plans devote 400 engineers to the project.

The company already offers an ambulatory care EMR--Centricity--which supports physician clinics. Centricity is used by more than 30,000 clinicians, which should give GE something of a head start as it develops collaboration technology.

GE's announcement comes as part of a larger package of health IT initiatives, including offering an "IT starter kit" to physicians and rolling out a system pushing out newly-published clinical research to doctors as soon as it's available.

To find out more about the framework:
- read this GE press release

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