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34 Healthcare IT News June 2008 ■ clinical toolkit www.HealthcareITNews.com Cardiology systems Integration in infancy looking for cardiovascular information systems (CVIS), said Ben Brown, research director at KLAS. According to a perception study KLAS published in December 2007, 41 percent of providers interviewed indicated they have an IT strategy for CVIS. Thirty-five percent did not yet have a CVIS vendor strategy, while 7 percent are likely to change vendors for a long-term cardiology IT solution. The remaining 17 percent didn’t have a current plan or vendor selected. According to Scott Adelman, MD, chief of cardiology at Kaiser Permanente and study sponsor, “an integrated cardiology solution is really in its infancy.” While there has been quite a bit of provider interest, Brown said that one of the challenges is understanding the unique workflow of cardiology departments from top to bottom. “As the IT tools in cardiology continue to mature, they need to be user-friendly and easily interfaced to other key clinical systems,” he said. p r o d u c t S p ot l ig H t M More information at Healthcareitnews.com recent newS ➔ Vendors announce cardiac data link to EMR ➔ Carestream is making inroads in Europe ➔ Philips sells last piece of Nuance, reorganizes ➔ Agfa unveils HeartStation ECG system ➔ Fujifilm builds portfolio with ProSolv ➔ The heart of the matter By PaTTy Enrado, Contributing Editor ore and more providers are reSource central ➔ Closeup on PACS Vendor Performance (KLAS)(HIMSS Analytics Report) ➔ HIMSS Analytics Market Overview: Ancillary/Clinical Department Systems: Self-Developed vs. VendorProvided Solutions ➔ Datamonitor report: Technology Opportunities in the North American Healthcare Market ➔ Datamonitor report: Business Issues and IT Priorities among U.S. Healthcare Providers and Payers Two clinicians review the features of Digisonics’ DigiView Image Management & Reporting System. SySteMS offer Help witH workflow AgfA cardiology pacS and information Management Agfa’s image management and archiving technology makes department workflow more efficient by providing quick, secure access to critical cardiology information stored in one database. CerNer cardiovascular diagnostic activities, therapeutic interventions and follow-up regimens, and integrating with the electronic medical record. DigisoNiCs tHree trendS to watcH KLAS Research Director Ben Brown says providers expect a lot from their cardiology systems. 1. Broad tool: Providers are looking for a system that will enable them to do everything from managing images, structured reporting, management and statistical reporting tools, hemodynamics, outbound registry reporting, capturing ECG data, handling EP, MRA, CCTA and nuclear cardiology studies. 2. reporting: Image management of cardiology IT systems are fairly mature, while structured data reporting tools are continuing to mature 3. interfacing: As the technology continues to mature you should see interfacing expand and improve. digiView image Management & reporting System DigiView cardiology solutions combine high-performance image analysis, professional reporting, an integrated clinical database and a powerful PACS image archive into one complete CVIS. emAgeoN Emageon’s comprehensive suite of adult and pediatric cardiovascular tools offers cardiovascular information management, hemodynamic monitoring, advanced visualization and content management to improve staff productivity, automate complex medical imaging workflow, and lower total cost of ownership. epiC systems Corp. cerner cardiovascular Solutions With the Cerner Millenium architecture as the foundation, Cerner’s cardiovascular solutions deliver streamlined workflow by unifying cardiant cardiovascular information System Cardiant features multi-modality, procedure-specific clinical documentation along with streamlined consult, follow-up and referral CardIology see page 35 HeartSuite plans for implementing cardiology it Do you currently have a CVIS strategy? Yes No, but looking No, and no plans Changing USER REVIEwS 41% 35% 17% 7% “Digisonics software is user friendly and easily adaptable to fit any need. It has also been exceptional with service needs that HSO has had in two areas. The response time for assessing equipment issues are done on a very timely, if not immediate basis. If the solution is not ‘behind the scenes,’ meaning that our office flow and patient care is not interrupted, Digisonics has been willing to work evenings and weekends on the few occasions that this has occurred. we seldom find this kind of service support with our other vendors.” Lesson learned: “Training, allow ample time for training to fully understand every feature and practice as much as possible!” Twilla Lee, practice administrator, Heart Specialists of Ohio “Horizon Cardiology was expandable for supporting our echo department and will soon be upgraded to function as our enterprise ECG management system. we felt McKesson’s IT focus best served our needs and liked how flexible the company was on customizing a system to fit our workflow.” Lesson learned: “The only challenges we faced with implementation were growing pains, because we were a beta site for the product. Otherwise our implementation was flawless.” Kelly Neal, director of cardiovascular services, The Washington Hospital “The Emageon VERICIS and EchoIMS solutions have clearly met or exceeded our expectations.” Lesson learned: “Despite the complexity of our echo network, we’ve had essentially no downtime and excellent system speed and performance. Our productivity has increased and there has been no decline in system perfor-mance despite the addition of echo staff, echo machines, and workstations since initial implementation.” Craig Fleishman, MD, director, Non-Invasive Cardiac Imaging, Arnold Palmer Medical Center and the Congenital Heart Institute at Miami Children’s Hospital. N=165 SOURCE: : “CVIS PERCEPtIOn StUDy,” DECEMbER 2007, KLAS www.HealthcareITNews.com Healthcareitnews.com

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