I would really like to have Web DX to replace ol' Centricity. However, it seems that legacy Centricity sites will have to buy the IW upgrade, and I don't think my site has done so at this point. Oh well. I'm finding that only a few test sites have Web DX today. Since I'm not at a pilot site (can you imagine GE using me for that?) I can't yet get my grubby paws on Web DX, even if I had the dough available. But that doesn't stop GE from advertising the heck out of Centricity IW, and even receiving awards for the integration of the DI system. From the DI, I mean the GE website (even though it is still http://www.dynamic-imaging.com/) comes the following:
I love how the acquisition instantly propelled the name "Centricity" from the bottom of the KLAS charts to the top, even though the product is totally different, and not even available yet. But that's show biz, folks.“GE Healthcare is uniquely positioned in the marketplace with one of the leading edge RIS/PACS technologies and a collaborative, internal synergy within the Centricity group that continues to strengthen GE’s position in North America and abroad,” says Nadim Daher, Senior Industry Analyst, Frost & Sullivan. “The multifaceted growth strategy that GE has put into effect capitalized on the strategic DI acquisition and revitalized the company’s imaging informatics business in a mature market segment. . .”
“GE is honored to accept this award from Frost & Sullivan, which validates the success of our Dynamic Imaging acquisition and demonstrates that this was just the right accelerant to our winning business strategy,” says Don Woodlock, Vice President and Global General Manager, GE Healthcare IT Imaging Solutions Group. “This strategy includes leveraging Dynamic‘s acclaimed Web-based PACS across numerous US and global market segments, and integrating the Web-based diagnostic viewer with advanced streaming technology to Centricity PACS.” In addition to this Frost & Sullivan award, GE Healthcare’s Centricity PACS-IW was named Best in KLAS-PACS by analyst KLAS Research and has maintained a #1 PACS ranking from analyst MD Buyline for nearly 3 years.
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We watched a Centricity IW demo the other day - users can not save annotations created in IW to the Centricity backend. I would have thought that portion would have been something they would include - not sure about everyone else but my RADS annotate the heck out of everything. :(
GE sales people are like democrats. They just keep on sayin' how great it's gonna be.....
As we are about to go to the open market, I am interested to hear Centricity 3 is much better than 2.x (we are on 2.1.) though I will ask our GE guys about IW, as they haven't mentioned it yet. Could be they are going to surprise us...
Soo... does anybody know if Web DX uses open html standards, or is it going to require ActiveX, like Centricity Web and AW Server?
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