GE Healthcare, HCL Form Healthcare IT Partnership

GE Healthcare, a provider of healthcare technology, has announced a structured partnership with HCL to enable service offerings for all aspects of its healthcare IT lifecycle – planning, deployment, customisation, and ongoing maintenance. Through the partnership, GE Healthcare will certify HCL on its core healthcare IT offering Centricity Enterprise and integrate HCL into its Digital Day One effort, which helps new hospitals in emerging markets open their doors as fully digital hospitals.

In November, 2008, GE unveiled its ‘Digital Day One’ initiative that provides an 'IT starter kit' that aims to reduce the digital divide between new hospitals in emerging markets and those in mature markets, providing every hospital with the same opportunity to improve the way healthcare is delivered.

Through this new partnership, HCL will play a critical role in helping to support new hospitals in realising the ‘fast track’ deployment option, in addition to supporting customers worldwide in leveraging these new capabilities to optimise their existing healthcare IT systems.

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"Making Digital Day One a reality will require a massive ecosystem, with systems integrators playing a critical role. To have a player like HCL join forces with us is a significant step forward and a great endorsement of our approach," said Laurent Rotival, vice president and general manager, GE Healthcare IT.

The two companies are already ramping up HCL staff on Centricity Enterprise and related GE healthcare IT offerings in preparation for certification and in-market customer engagement.