RelayHealth Joins GE Healthcare's Centricity Physician Office Partner Program

EMERYVILLE, Calif., Jan. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- RelayHealth Corporation, the nation's leading provider of online doctor-patient communication services, has been selected to join the GE Healthcare Centricity(R) Physician Office Partner Program. GE Healthcare is one of the world's leading suppliers of electronic medical record (EMR) and physician office management information systems (POMIS), with operations in more than 100 countries.

Through GE's Centricity Physician Office Partner Program, hospital systems and medical groups can leverage GE's core competencies together with the expertise of select market leaders to create critical solutions for a complete EMR or POMIS solution.

Independent university-based studies show that by enabling the secure delivery of clinically sound, non-urgent care online, the RelayHealth service allows for cost-efficient care management while improving practice productivity and patient satisfaction. RelayHealth features include the webVisit(R) online medical consultation, an interactive, patient-centric personal health record, the eScript(R) electronic prescription service, online appointment requests, and electronic lab results. In addition to facilitating secure online communication between patients and healthcare providers, RelayHealth also enables collaboration among providers throughout the community -- via its ASP delivery model -- improving coordination of care and information sharing.

Centricity Physician Office EMR users can quickly and inexpensively integrate the RelayHealth service into their information technology portfolio via the RelayHealth Interoperability Toolkit. Upon deployment, providers and staff members can be automatically signed into their RelayHealth account through a secure single-sign in process with Centricity, and RelayHealth messages will be seamlessly imported, linked, and stored in the electronic medical record system.

Piedmont Healthcare, located in Atlanta, GA and the Massachusetts-based Marino Center for Progressive Health both integrated the RelayHealth service with their Centricity Physician Office EMR solution in the span of a few hours. RelayHealth's unique Interoperability Toolkit methodology streamlines the testing phase of the integration process, and can be implemented remotely.

"By integrating RelayHealth with our Centricity EMR with RelayHealth, we've realized substantial time and cost savings, while achieving a higher standard of care," said Sheppard Dunlevie, MD, of Piedmont Physicians Group in Atlanta. "Our patients love the flexibility of communicating non-urgent clinical matters online, and we're assured impeccable, integrated recordkeeping. It's now easier than ever for our providers to keep on top of patient issues. Everything they need to see is documented in the EMR, and they're not overrun with voicemail or phone messages. It's made a dramatic difference."

RelayHealth adds GE Healthcare to a growing list of Leading EMR and POMIS vendors that ensure seamless integration of their respective healthcare IT Solutions.

"By allowing for a quick and cost-efficient integration with GE Healthcare, an EMR market leader, we have once again validated RelayHealth as the emerging online communication standard which interfaces with both commercial and custom-built EMRs," said Giovanni Colella, MD, president and chief executive officer of RelayHealth. "With minimal integration effort and expense, Centricity users can join the ranks of the thousands of RelayHealth customers who efficiently and securely connect with their patients online, while harnessing even greater benefits from their EMR. This results in an improved healthcare experience for all stakeholders."

About RelayHealth Corporation

RelayHealth is the leading provider of secure online healthcare communication services linking patients, healthcare professionals, health plans, and pharmacies. A secure, clinically structured productivity platform for the medical office, the RelayHealth service is an emerging online communication standard, interfacing with both commercial and custom-built electronic medical record systems through the company's Interoperability Toolkit. Research studies show RelayHealth reduces phone traffic and increases physician productivity through modular features like the webVisit clinical consultation and eScript electronic prescribing-one reason leading health plans nationwide increasingly reimburse providers who use the RelayHealth service. For healthcare consumers, RelayHealth provides a secure place to maintain personal health records, and improves convenience, access and communication with their own doctors. For information, visit www.relayhealth.com.

About GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform and treat disease, so their patients can live their lives to the fullest.

GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases, and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $15 billion unit of General Electric Company . Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 43,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com .

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CONTACT: Briana Pompei of RelayHealth, +1-510-428-7853, orbriana.pompei@relayhealth.com

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