1. Unmatched Image Quality
HeartSuite, Emageon’s suite of cardiology products is an integral part of the Emageon solution, an enterprise-level advanced visualization and infrastructure solution for the clinical analysis and management of digital medical images within multi-hospital networks, community hospitals and diagnostic imaging centers.

When it comes to optimizing the display of angiographic images, no company in the industry has more expertise than Emageon. Starting with its roots in digital image processing, through its experience and technology partnership in the development of today’s flat panel labs, it has consistently been the leader in cath lab imaging. Whether its optimized DSA image viewing or processing the variable pixel matrices from today’s flat panel labs, you can be rest assured that the images physicians use to make diagnoses have been truly optimized by Emageon.

2. Comprehensive and Easy to use
HeartSuite’s industry leading Advanced Image Review stations provide superior image quality in multiple monitor configurations. They offer sophisticated measurement tools including a full suite of echo measurements, as well as QCA, LVA analysis for cath, and image annotation – all at the physician’s finger tips before the patient is even off the table. The intuitive user interface and dynamic review controller provide instant access to multi-modality images and reports including those from radiology PACS.

3. Increased Productivity through Clinical Reporting
The HeartSuite system streamlines clinical workflow through the use of structured clinical reporting. It combines image review and reporting into a single session at a single workstation. Reports are pre-populated with patient demographics, procedural, hemodynamic and quantitative data from the HeartSuite Hemodynamics system, further streamlining workflow. The result is a comprehensive knowledge base of findings that minimizes typing and creates more consistent and complete reports. These reports can then be automatically sent to the hospital information system and referring physician to close that patient encounter.

4. Modality Acquisition Independence
Emageon’s connectivity expertise, standards-based approach, and 20 years of cardiology experience provide cardiology-specific modality connectivity to nearly every manufacturer and model. Customers have the freedom to select the best-of-breed of each of the cardiology modalities, having confidence that whatever is selected will connect seamlessly to the HeartSuite system.

5. National Registry and Facility Accreditation Support
HeartSuite, through its support of National Registry and facility accreditation, allows customers to benchmark their institution’s performance against national norms. Also, since this registry application automatically imports data gathered during standard clinical workflow, data collection is made easier, thus minimizing the administrative overhead and time commitment of staff and coders. These registry tools are all Web-based and have all of the built in data edits, integrity checks, tool tips and error reports to ensure information accuracy and compliance with ACC data definitions and standards

6. Patient-centric view of ALL of the cardiac clinical information for each patient
HeartSuite provides a Web-based, single point of access to all cardiac clinical information related to each patient’s care. From a single point of entry, the authorized user can see and review the patient’s current medical status as well as historical cardiac care events and their results, for both inpatient and outpatient encounters. It provides the information required specifically by cardiologists. The unique value for those providing patient care is the access to this complete information from anywhere on the network at any time by any number of users. All assessments, reports, notes, specialty reports and letters related to cardiac encounters and events are provided regardless of the subset consolidated in the medical record. Electronic integration with other cardiology systems ensures that this information is available no matter which systems are used in its primary generation.

7. Increased Productivity
HeartSuite CVIS provides information for all office, hospitalization and lab encounters in one system greatly improving productivity. This means more patients can be seen with existing resources without jeopardizing patient care. In addition, the system supports the implementation of increased efficiencies in the work processes of cardiology activities and reduces or eliminates other tasks. For example, specifically designed schedules for each of the cardiology offices and labs provide for increased facility utilization and care team coordination. Information flows with each patient through every step of each encounter, so that information is progressively built and does not have to be re-entered or re-acquired.

Automated patient and study information entry into all modality and test systems ensures study lists are prepared without duplicate data entry and eliminates data entry errors. Historical patient clinical information and forward plans such as assessments and plans of action are available on-line in an accessible and timely manner. Finally, all relevant information is immediately available for timely submission for billing, thus improving the revenue side of productivity. Full electronic integration with the HIS, EHR and other clinical systems makes information flow faster and streamlines workflow between cardiology and the organization at large.

8. Cardiac-Specific Measures of Success, both Clinical and Business
Cardiac-specific measures of success require cardiac-specific data. Whether one is measuring and reporting case mortality and complications, costs of specific cardiac procedures or more advanced analysis of care quality improvements based upon improving work practices, it is important to have as much cardiac-specific, detailed data as possible. HeartSuite provides data specifically for cardiac care, enabling the clinical and business cardiology leadership to manage their service offerings in accordance with their needs. The cardiac service line is under increasing pressure to report quality of service to national registries, to reduce the time for clinical reporting, to enhance patient care, to report clinical successes for reimbursement incentives, to reduce cost of care without reducing quality of care and to even prepare marketing campaigns for cardiac clinical services with referring physicians. HeartSuite’s cardiac-specific data enables cardiologists to measure and mange their service delivery and business in a manner suitable to them.

9. Adoption Success Management
As any physician knows, purchasing technology is only one third of the solution. Optimizing processes and getting people to accept and use new technology are the two thirds of the equation that matter most. Our Customer Success Program is a methodology that has been proven throughout our customer base.

10. Solutions for Tomorrow
EVMS was designed to provide enterprise visualization and infrastructure beyond today’s departmental PACS applications. Clinical content, such as images, reports and other associated information, is now produced and viewed by multiple specialties, such as cardiology, neurology, orthopedics, radiology, surgery and other healthcare professionals. We enable IDNs, hospitals and imaging facilities to create a standards-based, multi-specialty, enterprise healthcare environment. Institutions with an enterprise vision demand solutions which are committed to recognized standards that meet performance and scalability requirements.

For more information, contact Emageon toll-free at 866.EMAGEON, ext. 1558 or e-mail getstarted@emageon.com.