The GE RecordsTFC™ System is designed to support new approaches to Admitting/Discharge/Transfer and Registration and other patient/resident record keeping functions using a longitudinal approach. It is designed to support multiple facilities and cut across institutional inpatient, outpatient and ambulatory clinics, community clinics, physician, agency, nursing home and home based services.

The GE RecordsTFC™ System has much in common with GE's popular, leading and proven Centricity Pharmacy (formerly RxTFC® by BDM) that is currently supporting over 7,000 beds in Canada. This particular system shares the same open industry Windows® multi-tiered client server technical environment and relational object oriented database structures. It also shares a clinical orientation and a design meant to accommodate the emerging shared, integrated regional and district community-based continuum of care models for the twenty-first century.

Due to its innovative design and rich functionality, GE fully expects that the GE RecordsTFC™ System will become very popular and will enjoy an industry leading position in North America as does the GE Centricity Pharmacy System.

GE RecordsTFC™ System is deployed on an integrated and networked basis and works in conjunction with any other HIS System in the enterprise and permits integration utilizing integration engines and HL7 standards as the principle and preferred integration methodology. The GE RecordsTFC™ System can also be readily enabled for access via the internet or an intranet.

The GE RecordsTFC™ System has a clinical focus and supports information-based clinical decision making. It is intended for use by any authorized care giver or planner in the total hospital enterprise under security and on a need-to-know basis. The GE RecordsTFC™ System is designed with table-based user defined editing and rules structures (preferences), offers the highest degree of system integrity and also enables users to directly define and modify any report and output through the Report Building Tools.

The GE RecordsTFC™ System file structure currently integrates with or forms the foundation for the patient/residents paper-less electronic health record. It also maintains file folder type presentation of patient demographics, identifiers, community encounter history, allergies history, diagnosis and procedures history, notes and problems records, lifestyles, pharmacy, laboratory and other clinical results, interventions history etc. The system permits narrative description and textual documentation throughout and totally supports the integration of data, graphics, image, video and voice technologies through multimedia personal computer based workstations. The GE RecordsTFC™ System features automatic event triggering, as well a module for the recording, documentation and reporting of any type of clinical intervention or record keeping event.

All user contact with the GE RecordsTFC™ System is through a sophisticated and intuitive standard Windows NT® or Windows 95® Graphical User Interface (GUI) based session.

GE has incorporated Windows® standard ICON based command center and menu bars, pull down menus and sub-menus, Windows®, dialogue boxes, fill ins, selection lists, browsers, images, radio sets, radio buttons, combo boxes, widgets, sliders, accelerators, toggle boxes, notebooks, vbx and ocx controls, and embedded context sensitive help etc.

GE RecordsTFC™ was designed to meet the ever-changing and expanded needs of registration and bed management functionality. Some of the major features of the GE RecordsTFC™ System include:

	a streamlined and intuitive registration process to collect patient/resident and encounter information
	enhanced bed management capabilities including the provision of pending patient/resident movement considerations and placement based on bed quota parameters
	user defined patient/resident attributes and user defined accumulation of MIS compliant and case costing compliant statistical and management information
	extensive security and audit functionality
	switchboard and information desk functions with special confidentiality logic
	sophisticated census management including observation tracking and episode of care tracking
	context sensitive on-line Windows® Help Function

The GE RecordsTFC™ System operates on a variety of hardware platforms and utilizes a sophisticated multi-tiered client server architecture. GE is currently seeking hospital organizations who may wish to participate with GE as second wave users of the RecordsTFC™ System and GE is particularly interested in organizations wishing to implement the system and to take advantage of new generation features that support the continuum of care.

We would be pleased to provide you with additional detailing of the many features of GE RecordsTFC™. We would welcome further discussion at your convenience should you feel that GE's RecordsTFC™ would be of interest at your facility. GE would be prepared to make a formal proposal for our offerings in this area if you have any interest.