Cardiovascular Business - October/November 2007 - (Page 10) image maNagemeNt › by leslie k. anderson CVIS Cardiac Reporting That’s Hard to Beat In healthcare today, climbing to the top or staying there requires keeping up with the latest advances in technology that improve not only patient care, but a facility as a whole. That whole is made up of many departments that operate best when connected to each other and throughout the enterprise. Until just a few years ago, electronic reporting and connectivity wasn’t readily available to cardiology departments. As a result, cardiology felt left behind while other departments connected. Those days are over as new and improved cardiovascular information systems (CVIS) make their way to the center of cardiac care. and images through Emageon HeartSuite Vericis Web Access, a CVIS product. He has at his fingertips complete reports of all his patients, as well as his colleagues’ patients he needs to tend to. Gottliebson began working with CVIS in 2003, a month before he joined the 475bed Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in Ohio, where 12,400 children are treated annually for cardiac problems. He says he can’t imagine working without it. “Knowing all that information and being able to get it all with a mouse-click is incredibly important, particularly when you are at home or when you are on call,” says Gottliebson. Accessing reports remotely is just one of CVIS’ most convenient and popular features, along with viewing images from PACS. The Emageon CVIS is tied to the radiology imaging studies at Cincinnati Children’s, which includes x-rays, CT, ultrasound, MRI, nuclear medicine and fluoroscopy scans. O 10 Cardiovascular Business n the 50-mile drive to one of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital’s outpatient clinics in Batesville, Ind., pediatric cardiologist William M. Gottliebson, MD, director, MRI Cardiology, explains what he does when he arrives prior to seeing his young cardiology patients. “The first thing I’ll do is fire up the PC,” he says. In doing so, he has immediate access to patient records Cardiac central There is a CVIS revolution in progress, though it’s not fast-paced, and it’s something cardiology departments have been wanting for a long time. As more digital images become available in PACS, as hospitals become more connected and as more information is required for reimbursement and national registries, the need for a comprehensive image and information system also grows. CVIS—as the image and information solution for cardiac October/November 2007
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