Sridhar B. Seshadri
Vice President & General Manager, Healthcare Solutions
GE Medical Systems Information Technologies
Hi, I'm Sridhar Seshadri, and I'm delighted to welcome you to the 2001 ACC meeting.
Cardiovascular care continues to be a major focus and revenue driver for healthcare organizations. Whether you are trying to build capacity, lower expenses, or are planning to open a new cardiac care center, today's providers must have access to a broad range of information and expertise. Also, to create sustainable improvements that withstand variations in utilization, reimbursement and regulations, healthcare providers must become owners, not renters, of change management.
At GE, we're empowering providers by teaching them the skills that will sustain change. Through Six Sigma and other GE best practices, we deliver a unique blend of Web-based tools, data, and performance improvement services. For some time, GE has applied Six Sigma internally—improving productivity, changing the culture, and designing new products that are virtually error-free.
We're now taking these capabilities to healthcare organizations. For example, over an 18-month period, GE worked with a two-hospital system in Texas to change the way they deliver care. GE helped them develop innovative physician profiling and utilization review methods, reduce the length of stay and revive a dormant cardiac program. Through comparative information, benchmarking expertise, and monitoring techniques, GE helped the organization streamline processes, improve the quality and reduce costs—a savings of more than $1.2 million.
In the end, GE is helping healthcare providers with proven solutions and our unique skills transfer techniques. As your partner in performance excellence, we'll go beyond allowing you to leverage our expertise—we'll help you acquire it.
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