GE Healthcare IT Announces Kryptiq E-Prescribing

This is already offered under the GE portal for secure messaging and document management...now GE will exclusively sell Script Messenger, integrated with GE Centricity software and Kryptiiq will no longer sell E-prescribing services to other ambulatory EHR companies...Kryptiq is also a Microsoft Health Vault Partner with services other than E-Prescribing...BD

BARRINGTON, IL May 29 , 2008 – GE Healthcare IT , a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) and Kryptiq, a leading provider of healthcare information technology solutions, today announced a joint agreementfor GE toexclusively distribute Kryptiq’s eScriptMessenger (eSM) in conjunction with GE's Centricity Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Centricity Practice Solution. The offeringaims to provide a proven ePrescribing solution benefiting physicians with speed and ease in managing prescription activities—addressing a critical need to improve patient safety and care quality.

“As the Kryptiq ePrescribing solution is already readily accepted by several thousand of our Centricity EMR customers, we are excited to build on this existing alliance to meet the evolving needs of our customers with one point of purchase,” said James M. Corrigan, Vice President and General Manager, GE Healthcare IT. “Our guiding principle is to provide the best user experience and building on this relationship will allow even more customers to connect ePrescribing seamlessly into current workflows.”