All About CVIS - Cardiovascular Information System

Today's complex cardiovascular imaging and information environment requires an integrated, enterprisewide solution that improves the quality of care, boosts efficiencies, and reduces costs by providing quick, easy access to comprehensive clinical data. It's more important than ever to implement a cardiovascular information system (CVIS) infrastructure that will bring patient information to the point of care.

A complete CVIS achieves that goal, and can change everything, from adopting best practices to patient management. Whether you're replacing your existing system or investigating a system for the first time, you'll find the information you need to help guide you towards your new solution.

Components of a CVIS

A complete CVIS is a tool to help you get your work done, and never gets in your way. It should allow multiple users to work in parallel, and to accomplish their work wherever and whenever it is convenient. To accomplish these tasks, a system should be a single platform, comprised of the following:

• Multi-modality Cardiology Picture Archiving and Communications System (CPACS)
• Multi-modality Structured Reporting
• Hemodynamic Monitoring
• ECG Management
• Inventory Management
• Charge Management
• Sumission tools for accreditation bodies and registries

What's New at McKesson?

Charge Manager - Automatically Capture Charges
The Charge Manager module of McKesson's Horizon Cardiology^TM solution improves the efficiency and the accuracy of the revenue cycle by automatically capturing charges for devices and procedures documented by the clinical staff at the point of care. This unique module automates the charging process, thereby eliminating the manual paper-based processes used today.

Cardiology Imaging Referral - Improve Referral Relations
In addition to providing fast report turn-around times, what is the #1 way to increase your referral base? We believe it is to provide your referral base with a fast, easy to use method of sending studies done by your referral physicians in for consultation by your cardiologists.