Organizations want to improve quality of care, boost efficiencies
and reduce costs while increasing physician and staff satisfaction.
The infrastructure of the McKesson Cardiology™ cardiovascular
information solution (CVIS) helps to accomplish these benefits
by supporting the parallel workflows common within cardiac
and peripheral catheterization, hemodynamics monitoring,
electrophysiology, echocardiography, vascular ultrasound, nuclear
cardiology and ECG/stress/holter management.
The single database design provides the entire care team with
access to the complete cardiovascular electronic medical record
(EMR) – images, reports, waveforms, all with integrated charge and
inventory management – whenever and wherever it’s needed.
Bringing together all of the
cardiovascular information
you need into a single
platform
Enterprise Image and Information Management
Every facility’s cardiology department, regardless of its size or scope, faces similar challenges. Lost time from inefficient workflow, shrinking reimbursements despite increasing costs and mounting pressure to improve quality of care are having a significant impact on business performance and care outcomes.
Technology should provide the key to improving performance. Too often, however,
organizations are guided to implement poorly designed systems that only exacerbate today’s challenges. Disparate cardiovascular systems require extremely complex interfaces and force large amounts of data to be manually re-entered into each of the various systems, resulting in inefficient workflow and longer procedure cycles.
Removing the barriers
McKesson Cardiology is designed from the ground up to bring together all of the information you need into a single platform — a true cardiovascular information system (CVIS). In fact, ours is the industry’s only system designed to feature a single database design for: • Cardiac and peripheral catheterization
• Electrophysiology reporting • Hemodynamics monitoring • Echocardiography • Vascular ultrasound • Nuclear cardiology • ECG/stress/holter management
This infrastructure enables you to improve quality of care, boost efficiencies and reduce costs while helping to increase physician and staff satisfaction.
McKesson Medical Imaging Solutions for Cardiology
The single solution for cardiology
Features
• Single database presents the entire cardiovascular patient history — from fetal to adult
• Enterprisewide access to images, reports, waveforms and other cardiovascular information • Fully integrated cath lab (ICL) to
manage complete periprocedural workflow
• Automatic capture of professional and technical charges directly from point of care documentation • Comprehensive CVIS provides the
data and analytical tools to improve quality of care
Benefits
• Enables complete cardiovascular patient history to be instantaneously available to facilitate clinicians’ timely decision making
• Eliminates duplicate data entry to reduce errors and improve efficiency • Provides a workflow to enable timely
reimbursements while supporting your efforts to reduce the risk of claims denial
• Streamlines workflow, resulting in clinicians focusing more on patient care
• Strengthens referral relationships
As a leading supplier
of medical imaging
technology for the
entire enterprise, we
are uniquely qualified
to offer and support
a comprehensive CVIS
solution.
This kind of integration helps to provide your care team with instantaneous access to the complete cardiovascular electronic medical record (EMR) – images, reports, waveforms and integrated charge management – whenever and wherever it’s needed. By giving your clinicians a better picture of their patients’ health, they can make timely decisions regarding the diagnosis and treatment plan.
Enterprisewide CVIS
Our unique, single database design for cardiovascular data:
• Simplifies clinical workflow • Expedites procedure throughput • Enables reliable integration with other
hospital information systems
• Allows administration to better monitor cost performance and efficiency The system is based on the industry standards of DICOM and HL7, while adhering to the integration frameworks articulated by IHE. Designed to work in a multi-vendor environment, McKesson Cardiology helps to preserve your existing capital investment in modality equipment while allowing a best-of-breed option for future purchases.
Enterprise access
With our solution, we offer the cardiovascular specialists, clinicians, administrators and other caregivers inside or outside the enterprise the ability to safely and securely access a patient’s entire cardiovascular file, including the ability to complete and sign reports for echocardiography, vascular ultrasound, ECG, stress, holter, nuclear cardiology, catheterization and electrophysiology procedures. With the entire cardiovascular file, we help you and your care teams provide the safest, most efficient care.
Your remote staff can use our browser-based basic image and report review, or a smart-client application that provides a similar user experience to the desktop workstation. On the smart-client application, users can conduct advanced image review such as multi-modality, side-by-side display, and report editing and signing.
“This is a one-of-a-kind, complete,
patient-centric solution. This solution
integrates all essential cardiovascular
information, which will ultimately lead
to increased lab efficiency, improved
data accuracy and improved efficiencies
for our staff.”
— Andrea Russo, M.D., director of Cardiac Electrophysiology and
Arrhythmia Services, Cooper University Hospital and professor, Cooper
Medical School at Rowan University, Camden, N.J.
Integrated cath lab
Our unique design for an integrated cath lab (ICL) allows your hospital to manage the complete periprocedural workflow of the cath environment. The result is faster, more efficient and more reliable flow of information for better and safer clinical outcomes. McKesson Cardiology helps to: • Achieve one complete patient record
that presents patient demographics, medication information, hemodynamic waveforms, fractional flow reserve (FFR) measurements, images and procedural information
• Increase physician structured reporting adoption, by allowing them to complete the cath report even while the cath lab staff finalizes the hemo report • Simplify registry submission, since
data collected at the point of care automatically becomes part of the submission data for the National Cardiovascular Data Registry® • Reduce billing errors, missed charges
and automate inventory management as procedural information, supplies and devices are documented at the point of care
Modular design
Our unique single system, single database design provides you with a modular and scalable solution to fit your cardiovascular requirements.
Reporting
Platform
Administrative
Reports
Platform
Enterprise
Archive
Cardiovascular
Information System
Infrastructure
Connectivity
Management
Solution Group Legend
Nuclear, Stress
Catheterization
ECG, Stress and
Holter Management
Web Access Inventory Management Registries and Accreditation Holding Area Charting In Room Charting Hemodynamics Monitoring ECG Management Echo Tools Charge Management CT/MR Tools Metabolic Tools Physician Portal Multi-modality Workstation Radiology Integration Reporting Rounds/Teaching Statistical Analysis Reporting Platform Administrative Reports Platform Enterprise Archive
Cardiovascular
Information System
Infrastructure Connectivity ManagementSolution Group Legend
Nuclear, Stress
Cardiac CT/MR Catheterization
Electrophysiology
ECG, Stress and Holter Management Rounds/Teaching Web Access Inventory Management Registries and Accreditation Holding Area Charting In Room Charting Hemodynamics Monitoring ECG Management Echo Tools Charge Management CT/MR Tools Metabolic Tools Physician Portal Multi-modality Workstation Radiology Integration Reporting Rounds/Teaching Statistical Analysis
EP Orders Stress Cath Vascular Labs Echo ECG Inventory Meds Nuclear Congenital
Electrophysiology workflow solution
Our EP solution breaks the traditional silos in the EP lab by aggregating data from multiple users and systems into a single comprehensive electronic patient record. From diagnostic procedures through ablations to implants, McKesson’s EP solution helps to streamline the workflow throughout the EP department. Key solution elements include EP structured reporting, integration with some EP recording systems, auto-population of the ICD registry fields, automation of device management and charge capture.
Non-invasive solutions
McKesson Cardiology is designed to provide full support for the echocardiographic, vascular ultrasound, nuclear cardiology and ECG departments, and helps to increase the efficiency of your clinicians through Web-enabled, anywhere, anytime access to image viewing and reporting.
• Comprehensive support for echo, stress and vascular ultrasound
• Streamline clinician reporting with: – Automatic measurement import
from modalities
– Automatic range checking and sentence generation
• Congenital echo support for fetal to adult patients
– Accelerate reporting by carrying forward previous procedure information and “single-click” report building using disease templates – Aid in decision support by providing
graphical measurement trending along with Z-score calculations
“Cardiologists, who are typically
apprehensive to implement new
technology, immediately embraced
the McKesson system. Our compliance
is 100% …”
— Kerry Hamilton, BBA-HCM, Operations Manager of Heart and Vascular
Care, Southern Regional Medical Center, Riverdale, Ga.
• Comprehensive support for nuclear and stress cardiology, with integrations to industry-leading, third-party, post-processing packages and a robust reporting module
• Web-enabled reading of 12 and 15 lead resting, stress and holter ECGs, taken from a multi-vendor list of ECG carts, patient bedside monitors, stress machines and holter analysis stations, enables anywhere, anytime access to ECGs for cardiologists, clinicians and departmental administrators
Installation, service and support
At McKesson, we understand that a successful CVIS implementation means more than just technology installation and system set-up; it is also about customer satisfaction and solution adoption. We know you want your healthcare staff concentrating on better patient care, so we have several additional service offerings designed to help you improve business performance by reducing operating costs, minimizing capital expenditures and increasing market presence. From hosted storage solutions and rapid data migrations to staff augmentation and workflow, business and process optimization, the McKesson Medical Imaging Professional Services™ team delivers solutions to extend the positive impact of your healthcare IT solution.
We also know how mission critical these healthcare IT solutions are to your enterprise. Our support team is your direct line for all issues related to McKesson products, including third-party products sold through McKesson. We help you successfully maintain your CVIS by: • Knowing our customers. We understand
each customer’s system, workflow and unique characteristics.
• Being there when you need us. You always reach the most knowledgeable agent in the shortest possible time, with the shortest possible resolution time. • Proactively looking out for you. We
provide automation tools and techniques to proactively monitor your system, and catch issues before they occur.
Contact us
To learn more about how the McKesson Cardiology CVIS or our other medical imaging and workflow solutions can
“Just today, a surgeon was putting in
a shunt and called me from the
operating room (OR) with a question.
I was able to pull up the echo and
the angio side by side in one system
and show him in the OR. The CVIS
definitely improves patient care.”
— Jitendra Shah, M.D. Professor of Clinical Pediatrics,
University of Illinois College of Medicine Pediatric Cardiologist,
OSF HealthCare System, Peoria, Ill.
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