December 2024- GE HealthCare announced that Alfred Health in Melbourne will be the first health service in the Southern Hemisphere to adopt GE HealthCare’s Command Center software system.

Alfred Health has entered a collaboration with GE HealthCare to improve the connection between its hospitals and community services by using Command Center to help enable rapid and informed decision-making with well-integrated critical data and key personnel in a co-located environment. By centralizing information and leveraging digital systems, the system is designed to enhance situational awareness, communication, and overall operational and clinical efficiency.

GE HealthCare’s Command Center software supports hospital systems by simplifying the orchestration of patient care, including balancing the competing demands from all service points across the hospital system.

The Alfred hospital – part of Alfred Health – is home to Australia’s busiest trauma center and Victoria’s largest Intensive Care Unit. The health service also operates 18 statewide services and Command Center will use AI and machine learning to help optimize capacity to manage high patient volumes and complex cases efficiently, while supporting the expansion of remote care as demand grows.

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“We are thrilled to help Alfred Health enhance their system-wide efficiencies for the benefits of patients and their care teams with our Command Center software,” said Amit Yadav, GE HealthCare President & CEO ASEAN, Korea, Australia and New Zealand.

“We are here to provide our patients with excellent and compassionate care, and to be able to do that in the most effective and timely way possible. As our services continue to grow, and are offered in more and more locations, this exciting project promises to support us in continuing this effort for our community,” said Mr Horsburgh.