(Booth 4073) Compressus of Washington, DC, will showcase the newest version of its suite of MEDxConnect enterprise systems integration software at RSNA 2008.
MEDxConnect version 2.5 is designed to fully integrate with Centricity PACS from GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., and provide seamless connectivity across multivendor HIS, RIS, PACS, and related information systems, enabling them to function uniformly. The software indexes, integrates, and routes all relevant patient medical information in real-time, features intended to increase patient safety, improve physician productivity, and support practice expansion, according to the company.
MEDxConnect version 2.5 also includes full integration with PowerScribe speech recognition software, as practices are increasingly looking to voice recognition and dictation software to speed up their reporting workflow.
MEDxConnect version 2.5's addendum enhancement feature builds on the company's global virtual worklist capability to enable users to automatically prefetch all types of patient information -- including historical and demographic data, prior reports and images, and physicians' notes from disparate information and imaging systems -- and distribute the information to the appropriate physicians in real-time.
In addition to prefetching the user-configured number and type of studies and patient information, the system now also provides a list of other data that are available. Users now can permanently attach such new data to the original study packet, ensuring that the data are available for referring physicians or future reads.
Other new features include the OM2 order management module, which automatically creates an electronic order in HL7 in cases that don't include a RIS. In addition, a "study forward" feature enables users to pass studies to specialists or colleagues for consultations, something that previously could not be done once they were claimed, the company noted. Version 2.5 also expands the ability for groups to customize routing and worklist rules through general, modality, and subspecialty worklists.
