Cardiology departments face immense pressure to capture complex clinical data, drive revenue, and improve patient cardiovascular care.
A dedicated Cardiovascular Information System (CVIS) is essential for successfully handling complex cases and extracting meaningful analytics from studies to enhance patient care.
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Here are 5 of the top ways that a CVIS can benefit your organization’s cardiac care workflows.
Cardiology imaging cases have become increasingly complex, requiring clinicians to spend a cumbersome amount of time documenting patient information and customizing data input criteria to create the necessary cardiology reports.
Merge Cardio is a CVIS built specifically for cardiovascular care. It includes comprehensive, built-in reporting templates designed to cover unique scenarios and complex cardiology cases right out of the box, streamlining the reporting stage of the workflow to free up clinicians to spend more time on patient care.
Today, when cardiovascular specialists dictate a case or enters a free-text paragraph into a patient’s medical record, the data is not easy to search, track, or analyze. Merge Cardio categorizes and stores this data to make it more structured, researchable, and trackable.
By utilizing structured data in the background, Merge Cardio integrates with powerful analytics platforms like Tableau and Power BI, to create user-friendly, highly customizable dashboards. Users can then easily pull enterprise-wide analytics or drill down into site-specific metrics.
Furthermore, Merge Cardio’s advanced analytics can even search through unstructured data. If a heart doctor dictates free text into a report, you can still search the database for specific phrases, giving you a comprehensive view of your entire patient population.
The advantages of a dedicated CVIS for cardiovascular services become even more apparent when you look at invasive workflows, such as those in the cath lab.
No more jumping between multiple systems! A clinician might have to use one computer to record a blood pressure reading, grab a different mouse to document the finding in the EHR, and log into a third system to manage inventory. This disjointed workflow causes delays, frustration, and potential data entry errors.
Merge Cardio, seamlessly integrated with Merge Hemo, allows your staff of board certified cardiologists to enjoyable work from a single comprehensive system. You can handle the patient from the moment they walk in the door until the moment they leave. Pre-op, intra-op, and post-op care all occur within the same interface, seamlessly and holistically.
This CVIS automatically extracts hemodynamic data and builds a continuous record. The cardiology team does not have to recreate any work that nurses or technicians have already documented. Merge Cardio seamlessly combines invasive clinical data with non-invasive echo or EKG data into a single, consolidated analytics dashboard.
Heart health procedures can emerge rapidly. Whether you’re proactively looking for patients in possible danger of a heart attack or arrhythmia, or who have use pacemakers or stents, it’s critical that your CVIS is helping you identify fresh opportunities for addressing issues early or enhancing patient care after the fact.
Imagine a new tricuspid procedure becomes available. Cardiologists need to find every possible candidate for this procedure within their patient population. If your clinical team has to sift through a pool of unstructured data, manually reading through hundreds of reports, this process can take hours — inevitably missing qualified patients and possibly even endangering patients already at risk for conditions like heart failure and peripheral artery disease.
With Merge Cardio, you simply open your analytics dashboard. You create a board with specific clinical requirements for the new procedure. With the click of a mouse, the system generates a complete, accurate list of every patient who meets those exact requirements. You can immediately begin reaching out to these patients, providing them with cutting-edge cardiovascular care.
Merge Cardio 12.5, the latest update to our CVIS that has been ranked Best in KLAS for 10 years, provides cardiology imaging teams with AI-generated echocardiogram measurements, integrated directly into the system by our partners at Us2.ai. These out-of-the-box integrations provide for intuitive new measurement functionalities that enhance clinical workflows, adjustable measurements that allow for later modification, and timely evaluations and consistent clinical reporting that leave clinical teams feeling more confident.
Software is only as good as the team standing behind it.
Merge Cardio provides 24/7, US-based support, dedicated entirely to cardiovascular workflows. Our team provides this round-the-clock support to make sure your questions are answered and challenges resolved in an extremely timely fashion. We know how fast your team needs to move; we provide the customer support to keep pace.
To truly optimize patient care and maximize your department’s revenue potential, you need a system built specifically for the complexities of cardiovascular medicine.
Reach out to our team today to schedule a personalized demonstration of Merge Cardio. See firsthand how structured data, advanced analytics, and AI integrations can transform your cardiology workflows and cardiac care outcomes.