ConnectedCare™

Cardiology doesn’t happen in one place. Cardiovascular specialists today are spread thin serving patients through hospitals, clinics, distributed offices, imaging centers, and mobile services. When the day is over, many go home to finish there. And the challenge is getting worse as the US population ages.

IT is supposed to make it easier. Information technology is supposed to simplify and improve efficiency. However, yesterday’s technology doesn’t match today’s distributed needs. Too often, cardiologists have to become IT specialists just to get systems to work together.

Cardiology is complex, different, and special. The cardiovascular specialty taps multiple unique diagnostic tools, requires specialized analysis, and defines acceptable diagnostic phrasing. Low quality images aren’t acceptable when small details mean the difference between life and death.

Introducing ConnectedCare™

Kardia introduces ConnectedCare™ - a structured reporting PACS solution designed with the modern cardiologist in mind:

• Complete – a single seamless solution combining remote archive, intelligent structured reporting (SR), and plug-in-play integration with more modalities, instruments, and EMRs to help you start faster and care smarter with less IT cost.
• Online – a web-based solution to view full diagnostic quality DICOM images, edit and sign-off on structured reports from home, on the road, or in any office location to make critical patient information available anywhere, anytime securely.
• Fee-per-study – a fee-per-study solution so you only pay for what you use and avoid high up-front capital expenditures in a time of changing reimbursements.

ConnectedCare’s online solution brings data to the cardiologist when they need it, where they need it. And, ConnectedCare’s complete solution takes the complexity out of CVIS so physician’s can focus on the patient not on IT. Finally, ConnectedCare fee-per-study model makes great technology from best-in-class institutions affordable and accessible.

ConnectedCare scales to match the needs of any practice from individual doctors to large groups, from mobile services to large hospital systems. Small practices and community hospitals can tap best-in-class technology without the large up-front fees or complex IT typical of PACS. Mobile services, large practices, and hospital systems find ConnectedCare’s distributed structured reporting PACS a perfect solution to support scattered cardiologists and a great complement to legacy health information management systems (HIMS).

ConnectedCare is Complete. ConnectedCare is a single seamless structured reporting PACS solution designed explicitly for cardiovascular medicine combining:

• Intelligent Structured Reporting – Our standards-based structured reports templates auto-populate with data from the widest range of cardiovascular instrumentation saving time and reducing errors, can be configured to match your best practices, and distributed to follow your workflow.
• ConnectedArchive™ - Our archive stores your images and reports where you can get them – online and available anytime, anywhere securely – using the same tools you use day-to-day.
• Plug-n-Play Integration – ConnectedCare is tightly integrates with numerous modalities, diagnostic imaging tools, and EMR systems through standards and through proprietary deep integrations that connect structured report data directly to data fields in EMRs, supporting evidence-based medicine research.

ConnectedCare is Online. Access, view, and analyze full diagnostic quality DICOM images and edit and sign-off on structured reports from anywhere. To eliminate any wait time for retrieving large studies, our ConnectedCare technology identifies the studies that cardiologists are supposed to review, fetches them securely across the network, and caches them on the physician’s computer in advance.

ConnectedCare is Fee-per-Study. Get started with ConnectedCare today without making a major investment. After a small set-up charge, we bill you quarterly for the studies you do. Sign-up for a volume plan to reduce the fee-per-study with plans starting at 100 studies a month.

Want to learn more? Contact a Kardia sales representative near you.