Interoperability

Providing the Interoperability Advantage

GE Healthcare is a recognized leader in providing standards-based, non-proprietary interoperability solutions in its diagnostic imaging, PACS and clinical information system offerings.

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DICOM Conformance Statements

The Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard is used by virtually every medical profession that utilizes images within the healthcare industry. DICOM also addresses the integration of information produced by these various specialty applications in the patient’s Electronic Health Record (EHR).

Health Level 7 (HL7)

Health Level Seven is one of several American National Standards Institute (ANSI) -accredited Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) operating in the healthcare clinical and administrative data domain.

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE™) is an initiative designed to stimulate the standards-based (HL7, DICOM, Internet, etc.) multi-vendor integration of the information systems that support modern healthcare institutions. GE Healthcare actively contributes to IHE in driving the development of effective and easy-to-integrate solutions.

GE Healthcare at the IHE Connectathon

GE leadership in providing superior workflow solutions and commitment to IHE is demonstrated with the continuing development of our products including IHE capabilities. GE has been testing its products at the IHE North American Connectathon since 1999, the IHE European Connectathon since April 2001 and the IHE Japan Connectathon since 2005.

IHE Success Stories with GE Healthcare Products

GE products with IHE integration capabilities are already used by several of our customers to improve their workflow and facilitate their integration projects. Here are just a few success stories that were featured at RSNA 2002 and HIMSS 2003 by such prestigious sites as: