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Last week, GE Healthcare officially launched the Edison AI platform in Shanghai, China at its Digital Ecosystem Forum event. GE also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) of strategic partnership with five local software development companies: Shukun Technology, Yizhun Medical AI, YITU Technology, 12Sigma Technologies and Biomind.
Under the MoU, GE will cooperate with the five software vendors to develop the platform's applications in China.
THE LARGER TREND
GE Healthcare’s Edison platform was first introduced at last year’s Radiological Society of North America annual meeting in Chicago in November. The platform is touted as a way to help hospitals derive more value from their technology. Earlier this month, the US FDA gave clearance to the Critical Care Suite platform, which was developed in partnership with UC San Francisco and powered by GE’s Edison AI tech. The suite can help radiologists prioritise cases involving collapsed lungs.
ON THE RECORD
“I am very excited about GE Healthcare's strategic cooperation with five of China's top digital healthcare companies. Our strategic partners have software products of high maturity, the Edison ecosystem we are building with our partners is an important step in the digital transformation of GE Healthcare,” said Dai Ying, Chief Innovation Officer of GE Healthcare China, in a statement.
Cathy Fang Cong, vice-president of YITU Technology, said: “One company might find it hard to handle the massive data generated during the healthcare process. The integration will innovate applications to better serve people's medical needs.”
Up to 10 patients a day are using an in-house solution to book their outpatient appointments online with Hutt Valley District Health Board (DHB).
uBook is a referral management centre developed by the DHB and supported by its IT team. It allows patients to make or change their own appointments online.
On average, five to 10 appointments are booked daily and three to five appointments are changed. Numbers have been steadily increasing since it was introduced in 2011.
The DHB says uBook was created to enable patients to have more control over the outpatient booking process.
“Having this service has meant more people show up for their appointments on time and we have heard from patients who use the system that they like it and the control it gives them,” a DHB spokesperson said.
Patients receive a letter with a unique identifier, inviting them to log on to the uBook portal. The identifier only allows them to book into a correctly specified clinic and within a clinically appropriate timeframe.
Most outpatient appointments for services in the general outpatients department are available on uBook, while radiology, orthopaedic and some Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) appointments are not currently available.
Hutt Valley DHB associate director of allied health, science and technical Paul Rigby says the portal is great for patients as “they can identify at their convenience an appointment that suits them.
“It’s a real enabler of individual choice and if people can choose their appointment time, they’re less likely not to come,” he explained.
Patients are also given the option of calling in to the department if they cannot or do not want to book online.
This article first appeared on eHealthNews.nz.
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