Cardiology Informatics backgrounder

Cardiology— clinical tools harmonized with integrated informatics workflow

A recognized leader in the industry, Philips offers a complete range of cardiology informatics solutions that can easily be integrated in harmony with core hospital information solutions. Philips aims to help cardiology care givers with applications and tools that enable them to provide better cardiac care to patients, while at the same time improve efficiency, thus driving down costs of the cardiovascular service line. Through advanced healthcare information technology, Philips’ clinical workflow solutions save time and allow clinicians to focus more on their patients.

 

Philips offers a number of comprehensive cardiovascular informatics solutions including Xcelera and Xper Information Management cardiovascular solutions. These solutions embody Philips’ Healthcare Informatics strategies:

  • Foster clinical harmony by providing user-centric applications that are built on open standards for easy integration with core hospital information solutions;
  • Place patients in the center of care;
  • Provide clinical depth by transforming data into clinical information and knowledge;
  • Collaborate with customers to innovate clinical solutions that establish the standard of care; and
  • Empower customer success by delivering a competitive edge through the increased quality and productivity of your services and operations.

 

The quality of Philips cardiology solutions was recently recognized at HIMSS 2008 during the KLAS awards presentation. In the 2007 Top 20 Year End Best in KLAS Awards report, Xcelera was named the KLAS General Market Software Category Leader for Cardiology Reporting & Documentation. For the third consecutive year, Philips Series IV physiomonitoring and information system (the DNA of Xper Information Management) was recognized as the General Market Software Category Leader for Cardiology Hemodynamics. Philips is the only vendor to have earned two KLAS awards for cardiology technologies.

Xcelera Cardiology Information Management Solution

Philips’ newly enhanced Xcelera multimodality image management, analysis and reporting solution organizes and provides access to images and data from key cardiology subspecialties, including echocardiography, cardiovascular ultrasound, nuclear cardiology, cardiac CT, cardiac MR, cardiac catheterization, and electrophysiology, as well as direct links to electrocardiography (ECG) studies.

 

Featuring a user-friendly design, Xcelera offers an extensive range of integrated, advanced quantification applications on a common workspace. This approach delivers powerful clinical insights that help physicians pinpoint health concerns, allowing patients to move through each step of care more efficiently. Patients receiving cardiac care often undergo many clinical tests over a period of time and at different locations in the healthcare system. The Xcelera solution facilitates the process of documenting the patient’s medical condition, as derived from these clinical tests, into a secure, centralized electronic system. As the patient moves through the care continuum, Xcelera manages and distributes the diverse test results, supporting collaboration among physicians to achieve better clinical outcomes. In addition, referring and on-call physicians can benefit from Philips’ Xcelera WebForum, which allows Internet access to all relevant information.

 

Philips Xcelera can utilize Philips iSite PACS and other selected radiology PACS systems as a long-term archive, to support sharing of existing enterprise infrastructures and optimize for long-term storage cost.

Xper Information Management

In the cardiac cath lab, Philips is addressing the challenges facing IT professionals who must manage the large quantity of data captured during cardiac catheterization procedures. The Philips portfolio includes the new Xper Information Management cardiovascular solution, which presents the physiomonitoring, reporting, scheduling, inventory management and data mining cath lab clinicians and physicians want with the workflow solutions IT experts need.

 

This advanced technology encompasses data management and a data center with a central portal into all system functions. Simplified access to all relevant information enables more informed decision-making and efficiency across the care cycle. Additionally, features like user-centric navigation enhance efficiency on multiple levels, while also addressing hospital security demands.

 

Key Features/Benefits

  • Ensures clinical harmony with integrated hemodynamic monitoring, charting, analysis and reporting solutions with easy integration with core hospital information solutions. (more than 850 installed interfaces in the Xper Connect family)
  • Expedites workflow and enhances clinical harmony with role-based, user-centric navigation
  • Provides clinical depth by transforming cath lab data into insightful information for clinical and lab reporting
  • Empowers customer success with workflow solutions that address cath lab scheduling and inventory management needs