GE Healthcare’s Centricity radiology information and picture archiving & communications system (RIS/PACS), installed at the Al Khalidi Medical Centre (KMC), incorporates a number of features and functions designed to meet the demands of a modern healthcare enterprise.
The system assures fully integrated and digital workflow, good quality patient data, reliable functionality and user friendliness. It can be fully integrated into the hospital information system (HIS) via IHE profiles, and converts radiology from a conventional film-based department into a digital filmless environment.
Implementing GE’s Centricity RIS/PACS system is expected to have a significant positive impact on KMC, where over 700 medical staff members provide round-the-clock personalized care to patients and roughly 30,000 out-patients are treated annually.
‘To us, having Centricity means easy to use and advanced tools that support our day to day decisions. The outcome is greater efficiency including better diagnosis and faster, personalized treatment for the patient, explained Dr Alif Al Saleh.
With Centricity, all clinicians at KMC will have immediate access from any PC at any site. Labor-intensive tasks such as transporting x-ray films, image and report filing will be eliminated. Furthermore, speech recognition technology tremendously eases the work of doctors and administrators alike and can significantly reduce reply times while setting up reports and diagnoses.
