Fortis Transforms Cardiac Care with Structured CVIS Implementation

“Cardiology is a data-driven and data-dependent field of medicine by nature. Every diagnosis and course of therapy is based on a patient’s medical history, patient images, lab findings, and other information. Thus you need an efficient CVIS that can capture the vast amount of data that is getting generated in varied systems and originating at different parts of the cardiology department and documented in a structured manner. In India, it is estimated that less than 2% of Cardiac Cath laboratories use structured reporting or for that matter, any type of system to capture Cardiovascular Information.

At Fortis the goal was clear, they wanted to ensure consistency in the reporting of every cardiac procedure, regardless of the physician’s training, background, or style of work, and also ensure that 100% of procedural data is recorded abiding by the latest clinical guidelines of International standards.

The importance of organized reporting is beyond question. Softlink’s HCP – CVIS is ACC – NCDR compliant system that intelligently guides the clinician on the required and important procedural data and generates near real-time reports which are automatically incorporated into the Hospital’s existing electronic medical record. Subsequently, this can be accessed by any healthcare provider, which helps in evidence-based treatment decisions, improves billing, and betters the patient care experience.

Being a cloud-based solution it can be accessed from anywhere across the Fortis group Hospital and is being implemented in all the group hospitals in a phased manner. Implementation of HCP–CVIS will ensure that very soon, Fortis will have huge data on Cardiac patients in a structured manner for clinical trials and research which in turn will help in the Clinical Decision support system and better patient care.”