Prior to its acquisition by
GE Healthcare, IDX had four primary lines of business:
Flowcast was the original application produced by IDX. It is a revenue cycle management system for medium to large physician groups, hospitals, and integrated delivery networks, and includes scheduling, billing and collections modules. It is written in the
MUMPS programming language and runs on
InterSystems Caché. Flowcast was renamed Centricity Business after the product was acquired by GE Healthcare. The product is now owned by athenahealth.
Groupcast was a financial management system for smaller-to-medium size provider groups. It was renamed Centricity Group Management after being acquired by GE Healthcare. The product is now owned by athenahealth.
Carecast was a system used primarily by large hospitals and medical centers as an integrated clinical and financial application. Known as "Lastword" before IDX re-branded it, the system was developed in the 1980s by
Seattle-based
PHAMIS, Inc., a company acquired by IDX in 1997. Carecast also came in a regionalized version currently used at the
University College Hospital in London. The main Carecast code-base is written in
COBOL,
TAL,
C and
Java and runs on Tandem/NonStop
Tandem Computers hardware. Upon acquisition by GE Healthcare, it was renamed Centricity Enterprise. In 2015, GE Healthcare announced it would sunset the Centricity Enterprise product.
Imagecast was a radiology information system which enables "filmless" radiology image workflow. It is now marketed and supported by GE as Centricity RIS-IC. ==GE buyout==