DELIVERING ON THE PROMISE OF
CONNECTED, PATIENT-CENTRIC CARE
December 2011
“Information is the lifeblood of modern medicine,
and health information technology is destined to
be its circulatory system.”
– David Blumenthal, Former National Coordinator for U.S. Health Information Technology
MANAGING A SEISMIC SHIFT IN HEALTHCARE
The major shifts impacting healthcare require improved insights and flexibility
FROM
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TO
Episodic, single-patient care
Continuous population management
Provider-centric
Patient-centric
Fee-for-service
Payment for value
Silos
Systems
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COMMON VISION
We share a common vision to create a more connected, more patient-centric healthcare system –
and a common understanding that uniting forces will bring more value, more quickly
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BRINGING TOGETHER COMPLEMENTARY CAPABILITIES
TO REALIZE OUR VISION
Our goal is to enable care teams to improve quality, performance and the patient experience
through a focus on population health management
A joint venture that when launched will develop
and market an open, interoperable technology
platform and innovative clinical applications
Capabilities in platform
and ecosystem development
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Capabilities in clinical and
administrative workflow solutions
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THE INFORMATION IMPERATIVE
By integrating data across silos of care and delivering the right information to the right person at
the right time, we can help to drive better care coordination and performance improvements
Data generation
and capture
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Data integration and
transformation
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Applications and
decision-support
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BUILDING THE FOUNDATION
To activate our vision, both GE Healthcare and Microsoft will contribute a substantial number of
employees and significant intellectual property to the global venture
• Amalga
an enterprise health intelligence platform
• Qualibria
a clinical knowledge application environment
• Vergence
single sign-on and context management
• eHealth
a health information exchange platform
• expreSSO
an enterprise single sign-on solution
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DELIVERING ON THE PROMISE:
Open Platforms with Collaborative Healthcare Applications
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PROMISE OF NEWCO’S OFFERINGS
The new company’s offerings will deliver on the promise of healthcare information technology to
improve patient, system and population outcomes
Patient Outcomes
System Outcomes
Population Outcomes
Empowering patients to become
more involved in the care process
Seamlessly linking transitions
across the continuum of care
Simplifying and optimizing the
delivery of care across populations
Providing clinicians with real-time
insights to enable better decisions
Improving operational efficiency
and financial performance
Proactively managing chronic
illness with preventative care
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A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE
Our goal is to create new value by delivering a healthcare performance management suite – an
open, interoperable technology platform, combined with applications that drive new clinical and
administrative insights, supported by a robust ecosystem of application developers
Integrated Care / IDNs / Hospital networks / Payors
Intelligence
and Foresight
GE
Healthcare
apps
Analytic
tools
3rd Party
healthcare
apps
Joint software development toolkit
Transformed Data
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Create
Qualibria clinical element models
Amalga data aggregation platform
Raw and
Disparate Data
Collaborate
Healthcare
Data Sources
Consolidate
Health Information
Exchange
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TAKING THE BEST OF AMALGA
The new company will utilize Microsoft Amalga’s ability to extract and enhance data from any
system and enable new insights in real-time
Applications and users
Amalga Platform
Disparate data sources
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ADDING THE BEST OF GE HEALTHCARE’S eHEALTH and QUALIBRIA
The new company will also utilize healthcare delivery management applications from GE
Healthcare’s eHealth and Qualibria solutions, such as:
Health Information
Exchange
Clinical Surveillance
Dashboard
Population Health
Management
Hospital Care
Transitions
Hospital
Readmissions
Connects IT systems
across a community to
create a longitudinal
medical record
Addresses quality
management by
providing timely and
actionable information
Simplifies and
optimizes the delivery
of care across systems
and populations
Connects multiple IT
systems to create
comprehensive view of
a patient’s condition
Applies algorithms
against patient data to
determine risk factors
for readmission
Enables providers to
make informed
decisions based on a
more comprehensive
view of their patient
Enables clinicians to
deliver the most
appropriate and
highest quality care
to patients
Allows providers and
payers to manage costs
and coordinate higher
quality care for a
community of patients
Enables providers to
reduce quality and
safety errors during
care transitions –
one of the most
challenging points
of care
Enables providers
to focus on at-risk
patients to avoid
readmission –
reducing systemwide costs
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NEWCO WILL BE A GLOBAL COMPANY
We will first focus on delivering against customer demands within countries we both serve today
Initial target countries
US; Canada; Brazil; UK; Germany; Switzerland; Saudi Arabia; China (includes Taiwan and Hong Kong); Australia; New Zealand
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STARTING FROM A STRONG FOUNDATION
The pedigree of our current Almaga customers, and our Qualibria application development
partners, are a testament to the potential of our approach
Amalga
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Qualibria
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NEXT STEPS FOR NEWCO:
Bringing the venture to life
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NEWCO DEVELOPMENT PLAN
• NewCo formation
• Proposed NewCo
announced
• Continued focus
on serving
existing
customers
• NewCo platform
– Extract and enhance
disparate data
• Initial joint
applications
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Pop. Health mgmt.
Clinical surveillance
Care transitions
Readmissions
• Next generation
clinical applications
• Next generation
patient engagement
– Integrate new forms
of PHR, etc.
• 3rd party
applications to
improve user
experience
• 3rd party services
– Systems integration,
consulting, etc.
3rd-party
application
development
Setting the Foundation
2011
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Integrating Technology
2012/13
2014
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Expanding the Ecosystem
2015
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NEWCO LEADERSHIP
The new leadership will help guide the strategic direction of the JV after launch
Michael Simpson
CEO
Michael Simpson currently serves as a Vice President and General Manager for GE Healthcare IT.
Current GE HCIT responsibilities
Prior experience
• Lead product management, marketing,
engineering and service strategies for the clinical
knowledge platform, Qualibria
• Senior Vice President of Product Strategy and
Development at QuadraMed
• Manage GE’s partnerships with Intermountain
Healthcare and the Mayo Clinic
• Multiple executive roles at McKesson Corp.,
including Senior Vice President and Chief
Technology Officer
• General Manager at Unisys Corporation
• 10 years at Novell Corporation as Vice President
and General Manager responsible for Novell’s
enterprise platform business and Novell India
• Bachelor of Science degree in Management from
the University of Phoenix
• Masters degree in design engineering technology
from Brigham Young University
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