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VIRTUA AND GE PARTNER TO REDUCE HEALTHCARE COSTS AND ADVANCE PATIENT CAREVirtua and GE Healthcare are collaborating to implement new solutions to help increase efficiencies, lower healthcare costs and improve patient care throughout the health system. Virtua is adopting GE's AgileTracTM Asset Manager and Enterprise Capacity Management Solution, an automated workflow solution that allows healthcare staff to better track a patient's inpatient experience, as well as manage the hospital's assets, ultimately reducing costs and increasing patient satisfaction. AgileTrac is validated under GE's healthymagination initiative, dedicated to improving the quality, access and cost of healthcare. GE's AgileTrac system is a comprehensive workflow solution that helps hospitals better manage inventory, streamline the patient care cycle, automate inpatient workflow and increase staff productivity. es. Virtua's collaboration with GE began in 2000 by leveraging GE tools and processes such as Six Sigma®, Lean, and Change Acceleration Process, to drive broad-based hospital improvement in areas such as clinical outcomes, patient and staff satisfaction, market growth and financial results. Virtua now posts the highest operating margins of any hospital in New Jersey, continues to be named Best Employer in the area, and received a Gold Achievement Award for the excellence of its stroke assessment program in 2008. Virtua Marlton has 188 beds and a reputation as a leading surgery center. The hospital continues to stay on the cutting edge of technology with specialty programs including arthritis management and joint replacement surgery, diabetes education and treatment, asthma management and cardiac catherization . Virtua Marlton was the first hospital in Burlington, Camden and Gloucester Counties to be fully accredited as a Chest Pain Center by the Society of Chest Pain Centers. |
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