DoseWatch™| Digital Solutions

Optimized radiation dose management

DoseWatch™ is a holistic, enterprise-wide dose management solution to track and manage radiation and contrast exposure within the patient workflow across a full-fleet (multi-facility, multi-modality) of imaging environments. DoseWatch automatically collects and analyzes radiation and contrast dosage data across facilities, modalities, and manufacturers within your imaging network to enable compliance. These automatic tracking capabilities make it easy to access a wide range of data to ensure low dosage strategies.

HOW IT WORKS

DoseWatch automatically detects outliers in dosing data and provides insight into their root causes, while easily documenting these anomalies for review.

Using the picture archiving and communication system (PACS) and your medical devices, DoseWatch captures, tracks, and reports radiation and contrast dose across modalities and manufacturers. The following modalities are currently supported on DoseWatch:

CT systems
Contrast injection systems ¹
Interventional Radiology (IR) systems
Cardio-Vascular (CV) systems
Mammography systems
Radiography systems
Surgical/mobile C-arms
Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging systems ²

DoseWatch 3.1

Drive better-informed, patient-centered care

Delivering high quality patient care is a top priority. Incorporating DoseWatch 3.1 into your imaging practices ensures it stays that way––with state-of-the-art technology that helps clinicians use appropriate radiation levels and deliver better-informed, patient-centered, and effective care.

4D Skin Dose Map³

DoseWatch 3.1 provides an interactive tool to support the post-procedure review conducted by the interventional imaging physician or medical physicist as they perform their comprehensive assessment of skin injury risk.

Organ dose dosimetry technology from Duke University³

This module estimates organ dosages based on licensed dosimetry technology developed by Duke University. Using the XCAT phantom library of patient models, it gives an absorbed dose estimation based on Duke University’s algorithm.

Dose to Fetus

DoseWatch 3.1 allows clinicians to take a closer look at the impact of radiation on pregnant patients with the new Dose to Fetus feature. This feature simplifies and standardizes estimates of fetal radiation exposure by automatically incorporating factors like the mother’s measurements and fetal depth.

Dose Management

GE Healthcare can help you develop an effective program to ensure the comfort and quality of patient care with DoseWatch.

Additional Resources

In Ontario, a Provincial Effort to Improve Care in Imaging Through Patient Dose Optimization

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References

¹This feature collects contrast data automatically for class-4 injectors integrated with CT scanners or directly from some injection systems. It is available for manual entry for other modalities connected to DoseWatch with the Contrast Data Management module.
² Tracking for single-injection procedures only and single DICOM studies.
³This feature is available in DoseWatch 3.1 and higher versions.

Results

Drive awareness

Drive Awareness

Get dose notifications early and often to identify outliers in patient dose data

Enhance workflow

Enhance workflow

Improve workflow through access to patient dose history and integrated EMRs

Maintain compliance

Maintain compliance

Promote compliance with national dose reference level (DRLs)

Optimize patient experience

Have a question? We would love to hear from you.

JB03308XX September 2021