Xcelera Cath Lab Management

Xcelera Cath Lab Management provides all the tools you need to effectively manage cath lab workflow, reporting, and costs.  Used in combination with Xcelera’s image management capabilities, it provides seamless exchange of data between all cath lab equipment.  Philips’ Integris and Allura families of cardiac imaging systems, both third-party and Philips hemodynamic monitoring systems, and your Hospital Information System can each be fully integrated with Xcelera Cath Lab Management.  It also streamlines billing, assists in measuring and improving quality, and aids in benchmarking your staff and facility’s performance.

Xcelera Cath Lab Management offers:

• Productivity: accelerating workflow through realtime access to cath lab data with fast, customizable reporting
• Simplicity: a single user interface and single integrated data set saves time, reduces data entry and streamlines information sharing
• Enhanced patient care: through faster communication of results and easy-to-follow disease progression information
  

Get more out of cardiology data

With Xcelera Cath Lab Management, you can quickly access all critical cath lab data and easily follow your patients’ progress.  You can also use Xcelera’s database information as a convenient source for clinical research.

Other key benefits include:

• Intuitive physician report generation tool, ensuring fast report generation
• Tight integration and real-time clinical data exchange with Philips’ HaemoSphere hemodynamic monitoring system, including workflow and user interaction between the two systems
• User interface harmonized with other Philips systems, minimizing user learning curves and enhancing overall user experience
• Steamlined workflow resulting from extensive interfaces and data exchange with other devices, such as:
  • HIS: ADT/CPOE
  • ECG management systems (TraceMasterVue, GE MUSE)
  • EPMedSystems’ electrophysiology system
  • Hemodynamic monitoring systems

Simplify procedure logging

• Log all aspects of cath lab procedures directly at the point-of-care, including supply items, medications and complications
• Select from pre-defined lists for easy 'point and click' logging entries
• Automatically upload patient data, hemodynamic calculations, x-ray dose, examination times, and other critical data via Xcelera’s large selection of interfaces
• Scan supply items used during procedures with Xcelera’s convenient bar code scanner

Quick creation of clinical reports

Putting all your cath lab data in one database helps you better manage departmental workflow.

• Choose from a large standard set of management reports such as: monthly supply usage, monthly overview of procedures performed, etc.
• Automatically generate weekly updates for more precise departmental planning

Easy to install, easy to maintain

Xcelera Cath Lab Management uses the Windows platform with off-the-shelf PC hardware, a relational database, and DICOM and HL7 protocols. Once installed, cardiology staff can easily modify lists of medications, physicians, staff and medical devices. There is a built-in provision of emergency data recovery, and automatic back up is done with no downtime for the server or database.

Image management accelerates workflow

Xcelera image management enables you to review not only cath images, but also echo and other modality images from a single workspot.  Other workflow and productivity enhancements include:

• Cath image review speeds up to 60 frames per second
• Flexible archive media options, including DVD, MOD, digital tape, SAN, and NAS
• Exam forwarding of images to network nodes, such as web servers
• Enterprise distribution and viewing on standard PC hardware through Xcelera WebForum
• An open platform that conforms to industry standards
• A platform for growth, with access to future functionality that avoids obsolescence and ensures investment protection for multiple types of data

Scalable and customizable

Philips Professional Services can help customize your data field, configure database queries, adapt templates, and provide other services to ensure that Xcelera Cath Lab Management fits smoothly into your existing work environment. It can be used as a stand-alone system, but is uniquely designed for seamless integration with other systems in the cath lab department. It can also be easily expanded to accommodate additional cath lab rooms and workspots.

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