Contrast developer Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals of Wayne, NJ, introduced a new contrast management system, called VistaTrak, at last week's RSNA conference in Chicago.
VistaTrak is designed to help imaging facilities better manage their contrast media use and improve patient safety by helping avoid contrast reaction events. The system uses radiofrequency identification device (RFID) technology to tag bottles of contrast media that can then be tracked as they move through the VistaTrak system.
Contrast bottles receive RFID tags as they leave the company's factory in Berlin, and upon arrival at an imaging facility they are placed in a locked cabinet. When a technologist accesses the cabinet to prepare the contrast administration, VistaTrak communicates with the facility's RIS to download relevant information that could help avoid a contrast reaction, such as the patient's glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and can provide alerts for patients who may be contraindicated for contrast administration.
VistaTrak includes inventory management tools, and can also help facilities manage the contrast-dosing behavior of individual technologists. Bayer believes the system can also help facilities comply with Joint Commission requirements.
Bayer plans to begin selling the software to customers in the middle of 2008.
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