Kardia PACS-SR™

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.

Kardia PACS-SR™ - structured reporting PACS custom fit to any size practice

• Complete – a single seamless solution combining remote archive, intelligent structured reporting (SR), and integration with more modalities, instruments, and EMRs to help you start faster and provide better care more efficiently with less IT cost.
• Fast and Online – 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. With Kardia’s proprietary routing, you rarely have to wait for images to download.
• Pay-as-you-go or Capital Purchase – Kardia PACS-SR gives you the choice to match your financial situation. You can pay-as-you-go with flexible fee-per-study pricing so you only pay for what you use, get full support and upgrades, and avoid high up-front capital expenditures. Or make a one-time capital purchase with an annual support contract. Either way, you get the best value on the market today.

Kardia PACS-SR’s online solution brings data to the cardiologist when they need it, where they need it. And, Kardia PACS-SR’s complete solution takes the complexity out so physicians focus on the patient not on IT. Finally, Kardia PACS-SR flexible pricing makes great technology affordable and accessible.

Kardia PACS-SR scales to match the needs of any practice from individual doctors to large groups, from mobile services to community hospitals. 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 Kardia PACS-SR’s distributed structured reporting PACS a perfect solution to support scattered cardiologists and a great complement to legacy health information management systems (HIMS).

Kardia PACS-SR is Complete. A single seamless structured reporting PACS solution designed explicitly for cardiovascular medicine combining:

• Remote Archiving - 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.
• Web service – DICOM images and non-DICOM data along with preliminary reports flow securely and automatically to Kardia’s data center and out to reading physicians for review and finalization.
• Auto-populated Structured Reporting – Our customizable report templates auto-populate with data from all major echocardiography imaging devices saving time and reducing errors, can be configured to match your best practices, and distributed to follow your workflow.
• Connections to multiple DICOM modalities – Kardia PACS-SR reads directly from old and new devices combining DICOM-SR data with screen reads to create the most complete, auto-populated data set – dramatically reducing data entry by technicians.
• Connections to non-DICOM wave form modalities (ECG, PVR, and Hemo) – Kardia PACS-SR extracts data from non-DICOM modalities to provide cardiologists with all the information in a single, comprehensive structured report.
• Connections to EMRs – through HL7 inbound to Kardia’s DICOM modality worklist server and outbound to EMRs. Kardia’s experience includes integration with most major EMRs used by cardiologists today.

Kardia PACS-SR is Fast and Online. A web-based solution with remotely hosted DICOM storage and web service combining:

• HIPAA-compliant long-term archive reducing the cost and security burdens for practices
• Full resolution DICOM viewer and editable structured reporting system that can be used at multiple offices, home, or your roaming laptop.
• Automated routing of studies to one or more reading physicians for review and final sign-off.
• Unique rules-based secure web server passively distributes large DICOM studies to the assigned reading physician’s authenticated client PC, eliminating query and retrieve wait times. Readers rapidly access full image sets cached on their PC’s local hard drive that are automatically scrubbed at user-defined intervals.

Kardia PACS-SR is Pay-as-you-go or Capital Purchase. Get started with Kardia PACS-SR today without making a major investment. With Kardia PACS-SR Online (our pay-as-you-go model), we bill you quarterly for the studies you do. Long-term archive, software support, and upgrades are all included. Sign-up for a volume plan to reduce the fee-per-study with plans starting at 30 studies a month.

Or, get Kardia PACS-SR Onsite (our capital purchase model without long-term archive service). For a one-time charge with an annual contract for support and upgrades, Kardia sets up the system to run entirely at your facility. Either way you get the best value on the market today.

Kardia PACS-SR is obsolescence-proof. Our pay-as-you-go and annual support contracts include upgrades. Also, Kardia always stores your data in open source formats such as XML for report data. And Kardia PACS-SR Online customers can always get their data back from our data center for a nominal service fee. If your business changes and you need to migrate in the future, Kardia won’t hold you back.

For those who do not need structured reporting, Kardia PACS offers a complete PACS solution without structured reporting and contains all the same functionality as Kardia PACS-SR minus the structured reporting product functions and features.

Contact a Kardia representative for more information. 1-877-4-KARDIA (1-877-452-7342).