Enterprise cardiovascular system to support multimodality imaging and clinical effectiveness

An enterprise cardiovascular PACs system across the Cleveland Clinic has been established and enhanced to support cardiovascular angiography, echocardiography, and vascular ultrasound and is evolving to support nuclear cardiology, cardiac CT and MR. The system must support the diversity of the multivendor modalities across the health system and provide access to clinical information at all points of patient contact including operating rooms, reading rooms, exam rooms, and offices. Capabilities that go beyond those associated with standard PACS are key and include structured reporting, warehousing of clinical data, enterprise architecture, patient context sharing to provide integration with third party application, and remote viewing access. As multimodality imaging and structured data become increasingly more important in the delivery of high quality integrated cardiovascular patient care, continued focus on clinical effectiveness of system integration is key.