Hospitals Improve Productivity, Patient Care Through Use of the Mac-Lab® IT Hemodynamic Monitoring System
Technology offers a single, accurate integrated hemodynamic and data management
system for cardiac practices
NEW ORLEANS — GE Healthcare showcased the Mac-Lab® IT at the American College of Cardiology annual meeting held in New Orleans. This new technology provides clinicians with access to more complete patient information than ever before when performing heart diagnostic studies.
The Mac-Lab IT, which links GE’s Mac-Lab (hemodynamics) systems with the Centricityâ Cardiology Information System, was introduced last fall at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics annual meeting held in Washington D.C. This new product will enhance GE’s leadership in cardiac technology by providing clinicians with greater accuracy, efficiency and productivity of clinical and administrative workflow.
The Mac-Lab IT is a single integrated hemodynamic and data management solution that accurately and consistently captures clinical information at the point-of-care. This new system creates the possibility to implement Cardiac Integrated Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) workflow. Patient ADT and order information may flow directly from the hospital information system (HIS) to the web-scheduling module or to the clinicians’ workstations, eliminating redundant data entry and allowing you to track patient progress on the dynamic electronic whiteboard. In addition to performing hemodynamic monitoring, it also gathers information that can later be used for clinical reports, inventory statistics and management, billing and charge capture applications and American College of Cardiology (ACC) registry benchmarking. The interactive administrative reports will provide hospital management with powerful analysis tools for enhanced quality management and cost control.
“The Mac-Lab IT enables cardiac clinicians to work more effectively, make more confident diagnoses and reduce the risk of errors,” said Laura King, vice president and global general manager, Interventional Cardiology Surgery for GE Healthcare. “This advanced technology is in response to the need for a fully integrated cardiac care system that enables clinicians to focus on the patient instead of the time-consuming process of gathering and managing data.”
GE Healthcare offers a complete line of hemodynamic monitors that can address routine cardiac cath lab and hemodynamic applications as well as optionally, electrophysiological applications within the same system.
"What we like about the system is that all of the information that the physicians enter is retrievable, can be queried, and ultimately can interface to the ACC-NCDR™ (American College of Cardiology National Cardiology Data Registry),” said Alan Kettelkamp, manager of Invasive Vascular Service for Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana, Ill. “Once a report is confirmed, everyone has the information instantaneously, referral letters are automatically generated and reports are sent to the referring physicians. In addition, the online results engine is updated with this clinical information. The billing department has the information as well and can bill from the dictated report. That process took two to three weeks prior to the implementation of the Centricity Cardiology system.”
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare is a $10 billion global leader in medical imaging, point-of-care systems, healthcare services, and information technology. Its offerings include networking and productivity tools, clinical information systems, patient monitoring systems, anesthesia and respiratory care, maternal-infant care systems, surgery and vascular imaging, conventional and digital X-ray, dental imaging, computed tomography, electron beam tomography, magnetic resonance, ultrasound and bone mineral densitometry, positron emission tomography, nuclear medicine, and a comprehensive portfolio of clinical and business services. For more than 100 years, health care providers worldwide have relied on GE Healthcare for high quality medical technology and productivity solutions. For more information, visit the GE Healthcare Web site at www.gemedical.com.
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