Wednesday, September 19, 2007
That Centricity Name is Quite the Catch-All
So what's in a name? A recent news item appearing in Imaging Economics boasted in its headline "Most US News & World Report Top-Ranked Hospitals Are GE Centricity Users". That came as surprise to me, because I immediately associated "Centricity" with the radiology PACS Imaging solution. When the article referenced Johns Hopkins Hospital at the top of this list, I knew something was up, because Johns Hopkins migrated all of its radiology study data from a Siemens Magic PACS system some time ago to an Emageon PACS. So I read on. Turns out that the Centricity name covers a wide range of GE IT products, mostly information/business systems. According to the brief article, only three of the eighteen top-ranked hospitals are using "one or more Centricity Imaging solutions". Just goes to show you how important it is to read the fine print.
Another way to interpret this information is that only 3 of the 18 top-ranked hospitals are Centricity Imaging Solutions users. This is well under the market share currently associated with GE PACS. I find that informative.
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