Talk about your ultimate curbside consult. Healthcare informatics is taking the distribution of medical information in a new direction: right to the point of care. General Electric’s approach to healthcare in the digital age has been dubbed “healthymagination”, and it is a commitment which places a best practices imprimatur on patient care at the point of that care. The initiative is a new way in which improvements in healthcare quality can be obtained with the rapid distribution of specific information which is readily usable by healthcare providers who participate in the process.

A Utah health system which has worked closely with GE will be piloting the initial rollout. It is hoped that the rapid dissemination of information will be just that — rapid. As healthcare delivery begins to close out one of its more innovative decades in its history, it only seems appropriate that a new mechanism of efficient information flow will only make reforms in healthcare easier to implement, thus decreasing waste and driving down costs. LINK

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