New McKesson Capability Adds Unique Fetal to Adult CVIS Technology
With its new 12.2 software release, McKesson’s Horizon Cardiology
™
is the industry’s only cardiovascular information system (
CVIS
)
system that offers a single database, including hemodynamics, and
presents the entire patient history from fetal to adulthood.
To improve clinical evaluation of fetal and pediatric patients, the new
release also allows physicians to switch between different Z-score
datasets while reporting on a case. Pediatric and fetal measurements can
now be compared with normative datasets from Children’s Hospital of
Michigan
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and Children’s Hospital Boston.
Mercy Children’s Hospital, part of Mercy health system in Toledo, Ohio,
and OSF HealthCare System in Peoria, Ill., provided significant input
into the development of the new McKesson CVIS release to meet the needs
of their respective pediatric populations.
Earlier this year, OSF HealthCare System in Peoria, Ill., went live with
the technology in the congenital heart center of Children’s Hospital of
Illinois at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center. Jitendra Shah, M.D.,
professor of clinical pediatrics at University of Illinois College of
Medicine and a pediatric cardiologist at the Children’s Hospital, has
already experienced a significant improvement in how cardiologists
access and review echo studies and generate reports.
“The ability to view historical congenital echo images, reports and
trends of measurement Z-scores at the same time as the current patient
information is a big advantage to our workflow,” said Dr. Shah. “Now, we
can present this information throughout the enterprise, enabling us to
improve the coordination of patient care.”
Users can instantaneously see updates to patient records made by other
care providers, in addition to simultaneously reviewing previous and
current studies of any modality. This capability is achieved through
McKesson’s design – a single database which stores all cardiovascular
images, reports and waveforms in one location from modalities such as
echocardiography
,
vascular ultrasound, cardiac and vascular catheterization, nuclear
cardiology and ECGs.
Mercy Children’s Hospital, a McKesson customer for the last decade,
added pediatric echocardiography in April 2010 and has achieved 100%
physician adoption. Previously, it took two to four days from the time
images were acquired until a pediatric report was signed by a physician.
With Horizon Cardiology, the job of the physician at Mercy Children’s
Hospital became much easier, and the average report generation and
distribution time is measured now in minutes.
“In the past, completing a report required a number of manual steps,
which lengthened the procedure cycle,” said Gary Butchko, M.D., clinical
assistant professor and a pediatric cardiologist, Mercy Children’s
Hospital. “With Horizon Cardiology, I can review, report and sign a
study in any convenient location – even from home. This increases the
number of pediatric reports I can read each day and gives me more time
with my patients.”
“McKesson recognizes that fetal, pediatric and adult congenital patients
require that cardiologists use specialized tools and workflows,” states
Kevan Torgerson, president of Medical Imaging Group at McKesson Provider
Technologies. “With this release of Horizon Cardiology, we are serving
the unique needs of this pediatric cardiology community, enabling better
and safer decisions in caring for these special patients.”
About Mercy Children’s Hospital
Mercy Children’s Hospital is a member of Mercy, a not-for-profit health
system in Northwest Ohio dedicated to improving the health of people in
its communities with emphasis on its 155-year mission of caring for all
in need. Mercy is composed of Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center, Mercy
St. Charles Hospital, Mercy St. Anne Hospital, Mercy Children’s
Hospital, Mercy Tiffin Hospital, Mercy Willard Hospital, Mercy Hospital
of Defiance, Mercy & University of Toledo Life Flight and Mercy College
of Northwest Ohio. Please visit
www.mercyweb.org
for additional information regarding Mercy.
About OSF
OSF HealthCare, owned and operated by The Sisters of the Third Order of
St. Francis, Peoria, Illinois, includes OSF Healthcare System consisting
of seven acute care facilities, one long-term care facility and two
colleges of nursing. It also has a physician organization, employing
more than 500 physicians in various specialties and nearly 50 mid-level
providers which are part of the OSF Medical Group. OSF HealthCare owns
an extensive network of home health services known as OSF Home Care
Services and also owns OSF Saint Francis, Inc., comprised of
healthcare-related businesses, and OSF Healthcare Foundation, the
philanthropic arm of OSF Healthcare System and OSF Home Care.
About McKesson
McKesson Corporation, currently ranked 14th on the FORTUNE 500, is a
healthcare services and information technology company dedicated to
helping its customers deliver high-quality healthcare by reducing costs,
streamlining processes, and improving the quality and safety of patient
care. Over the course of its 178-year history, McKesson has grown by
providing pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply management across
the spectrum of care; healthcare information technology for hospitals,
physicians, homecare and payers; hospital and retail pharmacy
automation; and services for manufacturers and payers designed to
improve outcomes for patients. For more information, visit
http://www.McKesson.com
.
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Michael D. Pettersen, MD, Wei Du, PhD, Mary Ellen Skeens,
MS, and Richard A. Humes, MD, “A Regression equations for calculation of
Z-scores of cardiac structures in a large cohort of healthy infants,
children, and adolescents: an echocardiographic study.”
Journal of
the American Society of Echocardiography
Vol. 21(8), August 2008,
pp. 922-34.
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