GE Healthcare

Get To The HeartOf Your
Cardiology Workflow
Only with Centricity® CARDDAS Xi2

imagination at workCentricity® CARDDAS Xi2 – Your Cardiology Clinical
Workflow Enabler
Centricity® CARDDAS Xi2 is a comprehensive array of tools that serve as thefocal point for all data and information management within the cardiology
department.
From streamlining workflow, tracking inventory stock and creating clinicalreports to running clinical and administrative queries on department data,
Centricity® CARDDAS Xi2 functions as a robust bridge between cardiology
modality devices (invasive, non-invasive, ultrasound) and the healthcare
information system, ensuring efficiency and accurate diagnoses.
In addition, Centricity® CARDDAS Xi2 is built upon a modular architecture,
giving it great adaptability to work the way you do so that you can focus
on what matters most – your patients.

What Can Centricity®CARDDAS Xi2 Do For YouCentricity® CARDDAS Xi2 comes with numerous features that help you andyour healthcare organization navigate through today’s complex cardiology
workflow with ease.
Its capabilities as a cardiology IT hub spans myriad tasks from patientmanagement, workflow management, department management todocumentation and reporting management, allowing clinicians andhospital administrators alike to work with improved productivity andefficiency.
With Centricity® CARDDAS Xi2, you are assured of a robust, reliable platform
for your clinical workflow.

Hear What Our Satisfied Customers Have To Say!
Tesseikai Neurosurgical Hospital
Tesseikai Neurosurgical Hospital was founded 20 years ago as aneurosurgical hospital in Shijonawate City, Japan. Although Tesseikai
Neurosurgical Hospital serves as the city’s main medical facility with305 beds, it is best known for its Neurosurgical and Circulatory Organs
departments, which were created only recently.

Challenges
As modern medicine become increasingly specialised, the hospital needed
to keep updated in terms of modern medical technology in order to deliver
quality medical care to its patients.
However despite using advanced GE medical instruments and associatednetwork environments in daily practice, the hospital still needed tocentralise the management of accumulated data for ease of access andadministration.
Additionally, Tesseikai Neurosurgical Hospital needed to upgrade its
workflow with a more user-friendly database system in order to best alignitself with the internationally popular concept of a “heart center network”
for specialised circulatory organ treatment.

SolutionCentricity® CARDDAS Xi2 offers a digital workflow that allows Tesseikai
Neurosurgical Hospital to deliver highly specialised cardiology diagnoses
based on the vast quantities of data that have been accumulated using
advanced instruments and networks.
Furthermore, Centricity® CARDDAS Xi2 permits the centralised managementof data by coupling all GE medical instruments, allowing the hospital toconstruct a network encompassing all of the instruments required ina circulatory organ department to form an ideal cardiology diagnosticsystem.

Results
By adopting the Centricity® CARDDAS Xi2 system, Tesseikai Neurosurgical
Hospital has not only improved its cardiology administration, diagnosis
and treatment workflow but also refined its team medicine approach in
the highly specialised treatment of circulatory organ disorders.
Even with limited staff members along the workflow chain in Tesseikai
Neurosurgical Hospital’s Circulatory Organ Department, Centricity®
CARDDAS Xi2 has proven its mettle consistently, showing that while the faceof medicine changes rapidly, the strategic deployment of technology canallow doctors to keep up with the pace and come up tops in the delivery ofquality medical care.

Kanoya Heart Centre
Established in October 2006 by Dr. Hidekazu Arai, the Kanoya Heart
Center aims to deliver quality medical care similar to service levels in large
hospitals at major Japanese cities while contributing positively to a healthyand sustainable future through cardiac disease treatment in Osumi. Todate, the Kanoya Heart Centre is a state-of-the-art heart centre structured
specially around the needs of cardiac patients who look for specialized
treatment with high quality levels.

Challenges
Dr. Hidekazu. Arai wanted to set up a heart center that offers PercutaneousCoronary Intervention (PCI) to patients in rural Osumi.
In doing so, Dr. Arai had to figure out a management system where he was
the only doctor working with a small number of staff without compromisingon medical service quality.

“Centricity® CARDDAS Xi2
allows us to perfect our teamapproach to medicine bygiving our doctors the abilityto view the various modality
images through a centralised
network regardless of whether
they are in the hospital,
enabling a comprehensive
diagnosis of the patient’s
clinical condition.”- Dr. Akihiro Shirasaka

Additionally, Dr. Arai had to contend with medical staff who were generally
untrained in specialized circulatory organ treatment.

SolutionCentricity® CARDDAS Xi2 offers a digital workflow that allows Dr. Arai’s
Kanoya Heart Center to operate with a reduced number of staff yet offer
specialized medical services at comparable quality to larger hospitals.
Furthermore, the Centricity® CARDDAS Xi2 system allows all information
to be shared amongst the Kanoya Heart Center’s co-medical staff,
compensating for their lack of prior experience in circulatory organ
treatment and accounting for an accelerated pace of skill acquisition.

Results
In essence Centricity CARDDAS Xi allowed Dr. Arai to reduce labour costs
and maximise space efficiencies through the innovative use of IT.
®

2The ease of use of Centricity® CARDDAS Xi2 also allows Dr. Arai to carry out
staff training even whilst on the job, greatly reducing the learning curve forKanoya Heart Center staff.
However the most critical benefit that Centricity® CARDDAS Xi2 delivered
was human-friendly IT that boosts the efficiency of the doctor such that
more quality time can be spent with patients, which ultimately translates
to the improved patient service that Dr Arai is looking for by setting up theKanoya Heart Center.

“I have never heard of any
other centers attaining
profitability in just twomonths. Most are still
pumping money into theoperation at that stage.
This is proof that both initialand ongoing employment
costs have been successfully
reduced through the adoptionof Centricity® CARDDAS Xi2”
- Dr. Hidekazu Arai

The success of Kanoya Heart Centre’s Centricity® CARDDAS Xi2 deployment
was also firmly evident in the fact that the Center not only showed a steadyincrease in patients within two months of its official inauguration, butalso turned around its operations fully to become profitable in the same
period.

Centricity® CARDDAS Xi2 Features At A Glance
Patient Management••••

Workflow Management

Delivers a comprehensive view of the cardiac history of your patients.
Combined with a highly scaleable architecture, Centricity® CARDDAS Xi2 is
infinitely open to all of the current and future possibilities of PACS.
Drill-down through the exam history to previous cardiac examinations,exam findings, and reports.
Consolidate all patient information, including critical patient alerts, medical
history, demographic information and a comprehensive phone log for all
patient-related communications.
Launch third-party web applications with a configurable patient contextsensitive URL link.

•Enjoy scalable and flexible workflow management.

•Experience flexible exam level management.

•Boost efficiency with HL7, XML, and custom Import and Export modules.

•Leverage intuitive usability through GE Common User interface design.

•Optional admissions level management module.

Documentation andReporting Management

Department
Management•

Documentation - Select from an array of Centricity® CARDDAS Xi2 clinicalmodules for comprehensive documentation across the entire cardiology
department – including invasive, non-invasive, and echo cardiology
modalities.

•Flexible Documentation Content - Maximize data content and workflow
flexibility by defining which clinical forms and ordering best suit thedepartment’s requirements. Select from clinical interfaces for automatedform population. Data may also be manually entered for information suchas clinical history or risk factors.

•Reporting Flexibility - Create unlimited report templates, pulling ANY
information from the database into a comprehensive patient report.
Additionally, reports can be published to GE’s Centricity® Web, for viewing
anywhere within the hospital.

•Scheduling - Manage patient appointments, staff, resources, room
availability, and staff meeting with greater efficiency.

•Inventory Management - Expand beyond tracking supply use in thedepartment, with order creation, delivery confirmation and low-stocklevel indicators. Combined with GE’s Mac-Lab or Cardiolab IT offering, theinventory module becomes a powerful tool to automatically capture andrecord materials used by serial number in the inventory database.

•Query Builder - Create complex queries easily with multiple data
dependencies and filters, which can be saved and rerun. This powerful
option allows access to ANY data in the entire database.

Centricity® CARDDAS Xi2 – Minimum System Requirements
Client• Hardware - 2.0 GHz processor, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB HDD, 100 MBit
network connection.

•Software - Windows® 2000 / XP Professional.

Server• Hardware - 1.0 GHz Intel® Xeon® processor, 1 GB RAM, 18 GB RAID for

operating system with RAID or data disks. Small 18 GB / Medium 36 GB/ Large 72 GB / Extra large 90 GB.

•Software - Windows® 2000 Server or Windows® 2003 Server/ Enterprise Edition, Gupta® SQL DB.

General Electric Company reserves the right to makechanges in specifications and features shown herein,or discontinue the product described at any time
without notice or obligation. This does not constitute arepresentation or warranty or documentation regarding
the product or service featured. Contact your GE
Representative for the most current information.
GE and GE Monogram are trademarks of General ElectricCompany.
General Electric Company, by and through its GE
Healthcare division.
© 2008 General Electric Company. All rights reserved.