Ultrasound and miniPACS provider Acuson introduced new features for its KinetDx Solutions network at last week's American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) meeting in Seattle.
The upgrade, called KinetDx Total Viewer, includes a number of new capabilities, such as the ability to transfer cardiac calculations data from the firm's Sequoia echocardiography system to the KinetDx worksheet and report package. This eliminates the need to write up worksheets, improving turnaround time for final reports, according to Acuson.
In addition, Total Viewer provides for prefetching of cardiac angiography, CT, and MRI images, expanding KinetDx's multimodality capabilities. The angiography viewer also allows cardiologists to review cardiac catheterization images and compare them with ultrasound studies taken before and after catheterization, according to the Mountain View, CA-based firm.
In other KinetDx news, Acuson and cardiac information system firm VMI Medical have jointly installed KinetDx along with VMI's EchoVACS at Children's Heart Center at Strong, of the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, NY. KinetDx will integrate the patient information throughout the hospital enterprise, while the EchoVACS system will support the clinical database for fetal, pediatric, and adolescent echocardiography patients, according to the vendors.
At another installation, Acuson has integrated KinetDx with Lumedx's Apollo32 cardiovascular data management system at the UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco. The interface, developed specifically for UCSF's adult echocardiography lab, allows Apollo32 to import and display echocardiogram reports generated by KinetDx.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
July 5, 2001
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