MELBOURNE­ — ­11 DECEMBER 2024 — GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC) today 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.

Command Center is part of GE HealthCare’s AI-enabled portfolio. Using a suite of specialized tiles—discrete applications that live within the platform—Command Center integrates streaming data from electronic management records (EMRs) and other source systems to help healthcare providers match patients with the right bed quickly. Command Center software helps provide healthcare staff with network-wide visibility and planning tools with potential to improve access to care, conserve resources, and enhance operational efficiency. These applications enable teams to take action with real-time insights and help teams consider adjustments based on the system’s predictive insights for patient census. GE HealthCare’s Command Center has been implemented in over 300 hospitals across the USA, Canada, the UK, Turkey, and the Netherlands, where it has helped optimize hospital operations and improve patient care management.

“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.

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