Comparing CVIS Solutions
Not all systems and vendors provide the same level of functionality, integration, service and support. Here’s a quick checklist to help you compare both.
Functionality
- Reporting
- Real-time reporting
- Remote report creation and signing
- Automated rules-based report distribution
- A single, coordinated image display, to view all medical images
- Single sign-on for clinicians to access multiple systems
- Patient-centric workflow
- Robust digital archiving (efficient access to historical images and data, including echocardiograms, and ECGs and hemodynamic waveforms)
- Web access for clinicians and referring physicians
Integration
- Single system not just a single CVIS vendor! All components are built on the same platform
- Enterprise integration, radiology, cardiology and optical imaging
- Interface to HIS and other clinical and administrative systems (radiology PACS, inventory, billing, orders, demographics and results distribution)
Service and Support
- Level of training, pre- and post-implementation
- Live telephone support
- Level of training for support specialists
- Remote monitoring capabilities