![]() You can download a raw copy of the database here. Always cite the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists when using this data. The International Medical Devices Database is licensed under the Open Database License and its contents under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. This database is not intended to provide medical advice and patients should check with their doctors to determine if it contains relevant information and if such information has medical implications for them. The same device may have different names in different countries. We are not suggesting or implying that any companies or other entities included in the International Medical Devices Database engaged in unlawful conduct or otherwise acted improperly. Medical devices help to diagnose, prevent and treat many injuries and diseases. We were successful in transforming the Cardiologist diagnosis and documentation/approval and coding and billing process as well.Explore more than 120,000 Recalls, Safety Alerts and Field Safety Notices of medical devices and their connections with their manufacturers.ĭo you work in the medical industry? Or have experience with a medical device? Our reporting is not done yet. We were able to cut the average “image pipeline” times in half in most of these facilities. We were successful in training the Radiology and Cardiology providers, and answering and hand-holding all user questions throughout each 6-week cut-over and go-live transition. We were able to use the same go-live team for making the transition in each of 6 major medical centers. We successfully transitioned the 6 large medical center Radiology Department workflows to the new enterprise IDX ImageCast RIS/PACS-based optimized digital workflow over a 1-year period. We also measured the Cardiologist diagnostic image interpretation “pipeline” time as well. We called this “chain process” time the “image pipeline.” We purchased and installed the Philips Xcelera Cardiology PACS as our Cardiology application. We measured the patient arrival and wait-for-technologist times (A), the technologist-to-image-acquisition times (B), the image-acquisition to Radiologist dictation times (C), the Radiologist dictation and pass-to-transcriptionist times (D), the transcriptionist back-to-Radiologist report for final-approval times (E), and the Radiologist final-approval to the actual report distribution over PACS, and availability-to-the-ER-physician times (F). ![]() We scheduled the 6 main medical centers and all the smaller clinic facilities over a one year go-live period, with viable parallel transition workflows, so that both the old and the new processes could function from different medical centers at the same time, over the same 1-year period of transition. Centricity Imagecast (GE Healthcare), which was used to verify imaging. We planned separate training programs for Radiologists, Technologists and Cardiologists. MSU, mobile stroke unit PACS, picture archive communication system SCM. We planned out a 6-week training and go-live schedule with a 30-person help-desk and hand-holding 24/7 technical management team with a 5-minute response time to the side of any troubled user. We chose the IDX/Stentor ImageCast Enterprise RIS/PACS solution with real-time on-line spinning disk archives for fast digital image archive, retreaval, and distribution. The Cardiology report documentation would transition to a pick-list DRG and reporting application which would standardize and automate the Cardiology reporting, coding and billing steps. We needed to optimize the overall Radiology Department workflow from time of patient arrival in the department, all the way to the timely image interpretation available to our ER docs in all the hospitals. We needed these networks to function seamlessly with existing HISs and RISs already in use for Radiology transcription reporting, and to begin the transition of the Radiologists to using Dragon speech-recognition software instead of tape recorder dictation, making the Radiologist interpretation reporting go straight to digital, rather than through the two dictation and transcription steps. Imagecast PACS is an image management system intended to be used by trained professionals, including but not limited to physicians, nurses and medical. We needed to do the same for our Cardiologist groups by standardizing documentation of interpretation, reporting and billing practices. We needed to ensure the interoperability of our applications. Needed to install an enterprise level RIS/PACS wide-area network connecting the Radiology Departments of 6 major medical centers operated by the PEACE HEALTH Catholic health system, along the western pacific corridor between Ketchikan, Alaska to the north, and Sacred Heart in Eugene, Oregon in the south.
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