ScottCare Cardiovascular Solutions, a leader in non-invasive cardiology products, today announces the release of OneView™ CRM, a feature-rich, device independent management system for cardiac device patients and data that is a component of its CardioView Diagnostic product suite.

“OneView provides allied professionals and physicians with the ability to monitor and manage patients with implantable cardiac devices, regardless of the manufacturer. We are able to consolidate discrete data and PDFs from St. Jude Medical, Boston Scientific, Biotronik and Medtronic - from the programmer at implant or in-clinic interrogation, and from manufacturer web portals for remote device interrogations,” said Brad Freeman, National Sales Director for ScottCare.

OneView™ is a web-accessible application and can be accessed from any computer, iPad, or smart phone with a browser and an internet connection. The OneView solution is designed to be a device neutral, cardiac rhythm management platform that provides a single, common EMR/EHR interface for all device manufacturer data.

“ScottCare recognized the need for a patient-centric device management tool that communicated equally well with all of the device vendors,” said Ken Zajaczkowski, General Manager of ScottCare. “We developed OneView in response to that need. OneView improves device management workflow, provides powerful query functionality, comes with an extensive library of default and customizable reports, and allows for physician e-signature for direct delivery into an EMR.”

OneView™ CRM is part of ScottCare’s CardioView Dx™ Suite. Each modality of the suite, including TeleSentry™ Live Ambulatory Telemetry, Chroma™ Holter Monitoring, arrhythmia/event monitoring, and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, is supported by ScottCare’s CardioFile database. CardioFile is a web-enabled report repository, providing physicians with a single interface to review, interpret, approve and e-sign reports – which are then pushed through to the EMR/HIS system via ScottCare’s single bi-directional HL-7 interface.

About The ScottCare Corporation
The ScottCare Corporation is a leader in non-invasive cardiology diagnosis, therapy and monitoring. Since 1989, ScottCare has manufactured quality medical devices serving cardiopulmonary professionals. By cost-effectively applying state-of-the-art technology, the company offers the most versatile and powerful systems on the market in addition to providing industry-recognized levels of service to support client’s evolving needs. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, ScottCare is a division of the Scott Fetzer Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. of Omaha, Nebraska.

OneView CRM is the preferred, feature-rich, device independent management system for cardiac device data. Watch our video series for an overview, or join our live webinar demonstration to see all that OneView has to offer.

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OneView CRM Live Demo (Webinar)

The ScottCare OneView CRM solution provides a device neutral, portable cardiac rhythm management platform, with a single, common user interface that dramatically improve your deice management workflow. Join us for a webinar on Wednesday, September 14th at 12 noon, EDT as Robert Jones, C.R.A.T., walks you through the details of:

• Release of session
• Patient session review
• Reporting
• Scheduling
• Queries
• Lead and device library
• and much more...

Presenter:
Robert Jones, C.R.A.T.
CRDM Service Manager
Ambucor Health Solutions, Inc.

The American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR) recently announced an expected release date of June 2012 for the National Cardiac Rehabilitation Registry. As stated on the AACVPR web site, the registry will provide cardiac rehabilitation programs with national outcomes data for benchmarking and demonstrate the positive impact of cardiac rehabilitation on the morbidity, mortality, physical function, and quality of life of heart patients across the United States.

ScottCare Cardiovascular Solutions, maker of http://scottcare.com/versacare-homee, a multi-parameter telemetry solution with integrated program management and outcomes, will provide seamless integration with the national registry, so cardiac rehab programs are able to contribute all relevant data, fulfilling the registry’s cause.

“ScottCare has been a long-standing supporter to develop a national registry, and we are pleased to see the project is moving forward,” said Ken Zajaczkowski, General Manager of ScottCare. “This is the last step in automatically integrating the data and outcomes already captured with our TeleRehab™ product with data across all cardiac rehab programs.”

TeleRehab™ VersaCare will communicate directly with the registry through an application programming interface (API).

“VersaCare currently features built-in patient outcomes data and management,” said Snehraj Merchant, Vice President of Engineering at ScottCare. “Already having that data in our system, makes it convenient for us to feed it directly into the registry.”

About The ScottCare Corporation
The ScottCare Corporation is a leader in non-invasive cardiology diagnosis, therapy and monitoring. Since 1989, ScottCare has manufactured quality medical devices serving cardiopulmonary professionals. By cost-effectively applying state-of-the-art technology, the company offers the most versatile and powerful systems on the market in addition to providing industry-recognized levels of service to support clients’ evolving needs. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, ScottCare is a division of the Scott Fetzer Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. of Omaha, Nebraska.

Following the recent announcement from St. Jude Medical regarding its Merlin.net 5.0 upgrade, ScottCare Cardiovascular Solutions today announces that the DirectSync™ feature in its OneView CRM device management system can now be utilized. OneView CRM is used by clinics and hospitals to manage cardiac device patients and data, providing a single EHR interface for all device manufacturer data.

“With the latest Merlin.net upgrade, OneView CRM users are now able to take advantage of the DirectSync functionality built into OneView,” describes Snehraj Merchant, VP of Engineering for ScottCare. “Now, when a remote monitoring session is completed, DirectSync automatically syncs all session data from Merlin.net so it is instantly available in OneView.” 

St. Jude Medical is the first of the device manufacturers able to transfer session data automatically using DirectSync in OneView. DirectSync alleviates the need to manually release a session from the CRM vendor’s web site. ScottCare is working with the leading cardiac device manufacturers to enable direct communication with OneView CRM. 

“The automatic communication between DirectSync in OneView and Merlin.net 5.0 saves our clinic hours of work. We can now simply come into the clinic and start reviewing remote checks immediately. The DirectSync feature has increased our productivity and improved our workflow. What was taking us all day to complete can now be done in half the time,” said LaNita Hobby RN , Device Clinic Supervisor, Arkansas Heart Hospital Clinic. 

About The ScottCare Corporation
The ScottCare Corporation is a leader in non-invasive cardiology diagnosis, therapy and monitoring. Since 1989, ScottCare has manufactured quality medical devices serving cardiopulmonary professionals. By cost-effectively applying state-of-the-art technology, the company offers the most versatile and comprehensive systems on the market in addition to providing industry-recognized levels of service to support clients’ evolving needs. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, ScottCare is a division of the Scott Fetzer Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. of Omaha, Nebraska. Visit ScottCare on the web: http://www.scottcare.com.

ScottCare, a leading manufacturer of devices and software for cardiology diagnosis, therapy and monitoring, demonstrated the interoperability of its EHRPipe™ with various Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems and Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) device manufacturers at the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) North American Connectathon 2012 in Chicago (January 9-13).

“EHRPipe is a universal connectivity tool that we have built into ScottCare products, enabling them to interface with all EHR systems and CRM vendors,” explains Snehraj Merchant, VP of Engineering at ScottCare.

As the IHE web site states, an IHE Connectathon is a cross-vendor, live, supervised, structured testing event with over 150 participating vendors and 600+ engineers and IT architects. All these organizations and IT experts converge on-site for one full week of interoperability testing and problem resolution. Participants test their products against multiple vendors using real-world clinical scenarios contained in IHE's Integration Profiles.

“At Connectathon, ScottCare successfully demonstrated adherence to the IHE PCD - IDCO specification by successfully interfacing with all of the EHR and CRM vendors demonstrating this IHE Integration Profile. These vendors included EPIC, St. Jude Medical, Medtronic, Boston Scientific, and Biotronik,” said Scott Rushworth, Engineering Manager at ScottCare.

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We recently interviewed Snehraj Merchant, Vice President of Engineering, to gain insight on the development of ScottCare’s proprietary algorithm for real-time detection of Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter. 

Q: What was the initial purpose of entering into the development of this algorithm?

A: Atrial Fibrillation (AF or A-Fib) is the most commonly encountered arrhythmia in the clinical practice that affects more than 2.2 million Americans and more than 4.5 million people in Europe. The prevalence of AF has not only caused a 66% increase in the number of hospitalizations in the past twenty years, but has been a substantial cost burden to the healthcare community worldwide. With the steady increase of this particular arrhythmia came the need for the development of a brand new algorithm for real-time detection of atrial fibrillation (AF) and flutter (AFL).

Q: Were there existing methods or algorithms out there that called for improvement or prompted the development of ScottCare’s algorithm?

­­­A: Generating a successful automatic detection algorithm took multiple attempts. Previous efforts at automatic detection of AF include Moody & Mark(1983), Murgatroyd et al(1995), Duverney et al(2001), Tateno & Glass (2001), etc. using mechanisms such as Markov models, Wavelet transforms of RR intervals, coefficient of variation of RR and delta RR and utilization of RMSSD. Most utilized the MIT-BIH AF database for representing the accuracy of detection. In order to address high rate of false positive detections in an ambulatory environment, ScottCare committed to develop an algorithm with higher degree of sensitivity and specificity on not only the MIT-BIH AF database but also on 76 real life ambulatory Holter data patients with varying degrees of Paroxymal Atrial Fibrillation.

Q: What sets this algorithm apart from any other?

A: Our enhanced algorithm is unlike past algorithms used in cardiovascular devices due to its use of multiple calculations namely Root Mean Square Successive Difference, Turning Point Ratio and Shannon Entropy for detection of Afib. This quantification of nonlinear dynamics produces a much more accurate detection of AF with very high sensitivity and specificity.

Q: How has ScottCare incorporated this algorithm into its products?

A: ScottCare advanced two cardiovascular diagnostic products with the development of the new and improved algorithm, including the Chroma™ Holter Monitor and Telesentry™ Live Ambulatory Telemetry Monitor by incorporating the algorithm into their development. With a low computation time of 0.781ms, it is effective in its utilization on real-time devices as well as retrospective analysis systems. ScottCare has utilized it in both capacities.

Q: How does this make ScottCare product(s) better/different?

A: This algorithm sets our products apart from other similar cardiovascular diagnostic devices by contributing to better accuracy results and higher degree of detection in clinical application, increasing productivity and ultimately improving patient care. 

To learn more about ScottCare’s proprietary A-Fib algorithm, access the publication here.

In the world of non-invasive cardiac diagnostics, where hospitals and physician offices consistently look for innovative solutions that streamline clinical workflow, improve patient outcomes, maximize profits and provide seamless EHR integration, ScottCare’s interface engine provides such a solution.

What is HL7?

HL7 is a means of communication among healthcare providers to provide a comprehensive framework and standards for the exchange, integration, sharing and retrieval of electronic health information. Simply put, HL7 is a language that allows the hospital data to talk with ScottCare software and vice versa.

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Steps to Success
The team at ScottCare has an easy to follow, consultative approach to implementing the connectivity between ScottCare and the EHR.

Step 1: Pre-Sale Requirements and Guidance
Step 2: Project Kick-Off
Step 3: Installation and In-Servicing

Data Shared Between EHR and the ScottCare / Ambucor HL7 Module
The ScottCare / Ambucor HL7 Module accepts HL7 ADT messages from ADT^A01 to ADT^A62 and HL7 ORM^R01. The HL7 Module will send Standard HL7 ORU^R01 (Result Message) in multiple OBX segments back to the EHR.

The following HL7 ADT/ORM data are passed between the EHR and the ScottCare / Ambucor System:

• Header Information (MSH)
• Patient Information (PID)
• Patient Visit Information (PV1)

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FAQs

1. Which discrete data points will interface with the EHR system?
2. How long does the interface process typically take?
3. What is the process to interface?
4. Are the reports transferred as a PDF to the EHR?
5. Does ScottCare have references for EHR interfaces?
6. Which products has ScottCare interfaced with an EHR system?

Reinforcing its commitment to offer the best in cardiac care, Wheeling Hospital is the first hospital in the region to use ScottCare's TeleSentry™ technology for ambulatory cardiac telemetry. The TeleSentry™ mobile outpatient telemetry system provides live patient visibility, analysis and automatic wireless transmission of arrhythmia events and ECG data via cell phone networks.

TeleSentry is a part of ScottCare's CardioView Dx Suite: The industry's only single-platform, fully-integrated solution for cardiovascular diagnostic monitoring and cardiac rhythm device management.  

To help manage and monitor their ambulatory patients 24/7/365, Wheeling Hospital partnered with Ambucor Health Solutions.“Going with the TeleSentry technology was an easy choice. Adding this device to our line of Holter and Event monitors gives us a comprehensive and integrated platform of cardiovascular diagnostic technologies that improve our work flow and clinical efficiencies,” said Andrea Dobkin, nurse manager of Wheeling Hospital’s Cardiac-Neurovascular Center and coordinator of the Chest Pain Center.

Ambucor is the leading provider of consultative and contracted Ambulatory Electrocardiographic and Remote Device Monitoring services for cardiologists and institutions that are keenly focused on providing the highest quality of care while retaining “ownership” of the clinical services that they offer.

“By partnering with Ambucor, a sister company of ScottCare, we are able to provide our patients with round-the-clock expert monitoring services. Wheeling Hospital has found yet another way to optimize physician access to critical data, resulting in improved clinical outcomes and increased patient satisfaction.”

Ambucor’s model enables providers to utilize state-of-the-art ambulatory monitoring technology to optimize patient benefit; improve clinical outcomes; and to increase patient satisfaction while minimizing their professional liability and increasing profit margin.

View Wheeling Hospital's Press Release Here

Interoperability is the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together. We present requirements, factors and processes for implementation of EHR interfaces using interoperability.

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Health information technology (HIT) is “the application of information processing involving both computer hardware and software that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of health care information, data, and knowledge for communication and decision making” (Brailer, & Thompson, 2004). Health information technology (HIT) makes it possible for health care providers to better manage patient care through secure use and sharing of health information. HIT includes the use of electronic health records (EHRs) instead of paper medical records to maintain people’s health information. EHRs provide centralized data repository which is quickly available, contributes to fewer manual errors, and facilitates maintenance of records forever. Effective utilization of EHR involves interoperability between independent systems and the EHR.

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Standards have been established in health information technology to allow for seamless compatibility and interoperability between independent medical systems and the EHR systems.

As a key HIT organization and early adopter of standards-based interoperability, ScottCare provides interoperability with EHR vendors that adhere to such standards. Most commonly used standards are:

• Health Level 7 (HL7®) HL7 and its members provide a framework (and related standards) for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information.
• Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) uses standards created by other organizations (such as HL7) to create a framework (profile) for sending vital health information seamlessly.
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) sanctioned subgroup IEEE 11073 is the governing body that provides common nomenclature for cardiac devices.

Interoperability standards facilitate:

1. Communication: Sending data from one system to another.
2. Understandability: Making both systems understand the data in the same way.
3. Workflow: Have both systems follow same processes to work together.

ScottCare systems are interoperable with all leading EHR vendors such as EPIC, AllScripts, NextGen, Centricity, Cerner, McKesson, etc.

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Remote Monitoring provides timely access to clinically valuable information

Pacemakers and implantable pacemaker defibrillators (ICDs) no longer simply prevent bradycardias with brady pacing or terminate tachycardias with antitachycardia pacing or shock therapy. These devices have evolved to become valuable diagnostic devices storing clinically valuable information with regard to system integrity, atrial and ventricular arrhythmias and heart failure parameters.

Until the last few years this clinically valuable information could only be accessed with a programmer at an in-person office visit or with periodic inductive device downloads requiring patient participation. These forms of follow-up only allowed for intermittent access to the clinically valuable information stored in the devices.

The advent of wireless devices and the Internet has transformed access to the data stored in Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices. Continuous access to the clinically valuable information stored in these devices is now possible with Remote Monitoring. CIEDs are programmed with specific ALERTS which trigger immediate downloads of clinical information to the Internet. Monitoring this data on the Internet allows for timely clinical intervention shortening the time to the detection of arrhythmias, device or lead malfunction and intervention for heart failure.

Remote Monitoring – A Workflow problem

Unfortunately, the workflow issues created by Remote Monitoring have been vastly underestimated. Patients with wireless devices pose unanticipated logistical issues to practices which for time in memoriam have dealt with patients who present to the doctor’s office or hospital in-person frequently with a referral letter in hand and an insurance card engaging the clerical staff, the physician and the billing staff. Patients with wireless devices are transmitting information to the Internet on a continuous basis and are not engaging the office staff in-person. Simply implanting a wireless device and providing the patient with a transmitter before asking the practice allied health professional to monitor the downloads on the Internet does not address the complexity of providing this service with its clinical, financial and medico-legal implications. Confronted with these issues, many practices have failed to provide a safe cost effective service or have elected not to provide this service.

ScottCare and Ambucor– Solutions to the Dilemmas of Remote Monitoring

The goal of ScottCare and Ambucor is to facilitate early access to clinically valuable information stored in CIEDS by making this information available in a timely fashion to the physician. ScottCare and Ambucor bridge the gap between the data delivered to the Internet and presenting information to the electronic medical record where it can be viewed in the context of the patient’s medical record by the physician.

There are four device companies in the USA that provide wireless CIEDs each with its own proprietary website. ScottCare provides a cloud based software package, OneView, which can accept information including electrograms from all for companies. OneView can in turn export this data to an Electronic Health Record.

Managing patients with wireless devices that are transmitting data to an Internet site without visiting the office requires a separate office structure to deal with these patients. This is not work that can easily be absorbed by the office staff. Ambucor is an insourced labor force that can be hired to provide the specialized services needed for 24/7 remote monitoring. The Ambucor team will help ensure that the patient receives a monitoring device, provide the patient a schedule for 3 monthly downloads, obtain the quarterly downloads, post them to the EHR, continuously monitor for alerts, screen data for information, provide detailed information for billing, provide continuous support line for patients to call, while providing a cost effective service.

Why choose Ambucor and Scottcare to help manage arrhythmia services delivered by your private practice or hospital?

Is there a recognizable problem addressed by these services?

Let’s first examine the workflow.

Ambulatory Monitoring – The Problems

Patients commonly present with symptoms including palpitations, lightheadedness, loss of consciousness, chest pain or shortness of breath. Physicians take a history and then perform tests to document the patient’s heart function and heart rhythm. As many patients are not experiencing their symptoms at the time of the office visit, ambulatory monitoring is required to correlate clinical symptoms with heart rhythm or uncover asymptomatic clinically significant arrhythmias.

Based on the frequency and duration of the patient’s symptoms and ability to comply with instructions, monitoring may take the form of a 24-hour Holter, event recorder, loop recorder or mobile continuous outpatient telemetry.

These services require equipment and personnel. The personnel need to be trained cardiovascular technicians and they need to be available 24 hours a day to provide appropriate monitoring services. For this reason, most physician and hospital practices have shied away from providing Event recorders, loop recorders and mobile continuous telemetry monitoring. They have relied on Independent Testing Facilities (IDTFs) to provide these services.

Services provided by IDTFs come with significant limitations. The equipment is not generally available in the physician’s office. The IDTF has to be contacted and the IDTF sends out the equipment to the patient. The IDTF personnel then need to explain to the patient over the phone how to use the equipment. This can be very difficult and intimidating for elderly patients. The IDTFs collect the clinical information and then make it available to the physicians by fax, over the Internet or by phone. Physicians do not have access to all the recorded information. They bank on the IDTF technicians to appropriately assess the recordings and send them clinically relevant information. If a physician wants to have access to the data set rather than just the alerts presented by the technicians there is no easy access to the data. Lastly, the physicians can only bill for the physician over read and the technical fee is lost in it’s entirety to the IDTF. There are also commonly issues related to insurance coverage for this testing. This results in a physician ordering a specific monitor only to find out at a later date that the patient never got the monitor due to insurance coverage.

Ambucor and Scottcare – a comprehensive solution

Private and hospitals practices buy Holters, Event recorders, mobile continuous outpatient telemetry monitors and cloud based software from Scottcare. These monitors are kept in the practices’ office. The office staff are trained in the application of the monitors. The office staff check for appropriate insurance coverage before applying the monitor in the office. The patient receives in person education as to the use of the device. The office staff upload the enrollment to the cloud using computer terminals in the office.

The Ambucor service team of cardiac technicians and nurse practitioners are available 24/7 to provide the monitoring. The practices draw up a unique contract with Ambucor whereby these personnel function as employees of the practice or the hospital. Payments to Ambucor are only made for services provided. This system markedly reduces the personnel overhead for providing these services by the practice whilst avoiding fragmentation of the service line.

The monitoring data resides on a server owned by the practice and the whole data set is always available to the ordering physician. The physician can review the data from any computer with Internet access at any time. Ambucor personnel facilitate the delivery of information gleaned from the data to the practices’ electronic health record. This results in timely access to clinically valuable information and impacts on the treatment of patients. The hardware and software is the property of the practice and the Ambucor personnel are insourced labor allowing the practice to bill globally. This model is cost effective for practices.

This workflow provides a superior patient experience and is financially beneficial to the practice.

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Ambucor Health Solutions was recently referenced in the Forbes.com article: IBM’s Reinvention Should Inspire Flat Pharma Businesses. Forbes.com is the leading source for web based reliable business news and financial information.

The author of the article, Dave Chase, proposes that in order for pharma companies to survive and thrive, they need to alter their business approach to transition from being product centric to being more customer centric.

“Pharma companies will succeed or fail based not on how many drugs they sell, but on how well their offerings improve health outcomes”.

Chase uses IBM’s successful reinvention after facing a grim future in the late 80's and early 90's, as an example of how large companies need to shift from a product-centric culture to a customer and service centered company. He explains that pharma companies could also make this shift by following the lead of a company like Ambucor Health Solutions.

"An example of how a pharmaceutical company could transition from being product centric to being customer centric is doing something like the company, Ambucor. Ambucor provides Ambulatory Electrocardiographic and Remote Device Monitoring services for cardiologists. Pharma companies already have deep relationships with cardiologists. Imagine them buying or partnering with a company like Ambucor to sell that service. This would provide a more complete offering where their heart-related drugs may or may not play a role, just as IBM products may or may not play a role in their services."

Chase goes on to list examples of technology-enabled services pharma can provide if they were to focus on disease management or prevention, including family medical history, tele health and remote monitoring.

The key point is that Ambucor exists to serve and help providers achieve improved health outcomes in the most economical manner, employing the latest technological advancements.    

To view the full article at Forbes.com, click here.

With the recent announcements that several of the largest third party providers of Pacemaker and ICD monitoring services are exiting the market segment, Ambucor Health Solutions is pleased to announce an expansion of its successful Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Devices (CIED) monitoring program.

“Our experience in implementing successful CIED patient monitoring programs for our customers has solidified our view that this is a clinically valuable service line that will continue to be critical for proper patient care in the future healthcare landscape,” notes Dan Pawlik, Vice President of Ambucor.

Ambucor’s program enables providers to gain better control of its CIED population, the extensive data management involved, from both trans-telephonic and web remote platforms, and to benefit both clinically and economically.

Pawlik notes that “When managed appropriately, we have seen patients, physicians and institutions benefit from the Ambucor program, with more timely pacer checks and remote visits, and better 24/7/365 management of urgent and emergent patient data in an efficient manner”.

For more information on Ambucor’s CIED monitoring services, please visit www.ambucor.net/monitoring or call 1-877-241-0602, ext. 4121.

About Ambucor Health Solutions

Ambucor Health Solutions, Inc. is the leading provider of consultative and contracted Ambulatory Electrocardiographic and Remote Device Monitoring services for cardiologists and institutions that are keenly focused on providing the highest quality of care while retaining “ownership” of the clinical services that they offer.

Heart Rhythm 2013 - ScottCare launches innovations in UNIVERSAL management of cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) data

Data management innovations provide device-neutral platforms to enhance clinical workflow and patient management.

CLEVELAND, OH - May 8, 2013 – As a technology leader in devices and software for cardiology diagnosis, therapy and rehabilitation, ScottCare will unveil new advances in importing, monitoring and reviewing CIED data at this year’s Heart Rhythm Society’s Scientific Session, Heart Rhythm 2013, on May 8 -10 in Denver, Colorado.

ScottCare will showcase the OneView^TM CRM 4.0 software release which incorporates major workflow enhancements for importing, monitoring and reporting remote and in-clinic CIED data. The new functionality makes it easy for clinicians to select and import data from programmers, follow patients with alerts, create patient reports, and schedule patients for device interrogation.

ScottCare will also launch CRMConnect^TM, a new software solution that will allow healthcare institutions to seamlessly import CIED data and reports into their electronic health record (EHR) systems. CRMConnect, a device-neutral interface, imports data from Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) companies’ remote monitoring platforms and in-clinic programmers, and transfers it to customer’s EHR system in an automated fashion. With CRMConnect, hospitals and clinics will have the ability to streamline their EHR integration efforts and avoid the complexity and cost associated with setting up and managing multiple interfaces with their CRM suppliers.

In addition to data management technologies, Ambucor Health Solutions, a division of ScottCare, offers virtualized labor for 24/7/365 surveillance and remote interrogation for patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices. Ambucor optimizes CIED data and presents only meaningful information for patient care needs. This unique offering also facilitates scanning and reporting for Holter, Event and MCT diagnostic monitors.

“The management of continuous remote data emanating from wireless CIEDs delivered to multiple CRM vendor web portals poses a vexing problem for physician and hospital practices,” said Dr. Colin Movsowitz, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Cardiology Consultants of Philadelphia. “This data needs to be assessed in a timely fashion and integrated into the electronic medical record. OneView and the Ambucor workforce provide a clinically robust and financially viable solution for the management of remote patient data.”

About The ScottCare Corporation

ScottCare develops high quality diagnostic monitoring, CRM data management, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, and EHR data integration solutions for hospitals and cardiology practices to aid in the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease. ScottCare, through its Ambucor Health Solutions division, also provides consultative and contracted Ambulatory Electrocardiographic and Remote Device Monitoring services for cardiologists and hospitals. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, ScottCare is a subsidiary of The Scott Fetzer Company, a diversified manufacturer and marketer of high quality products for the home, family, and industry comprised of more than 20 businesses. Visit ScottCare on the web: http://www.scottcare.com.

CLEVELAND, OH (October 3, 2013)—The ScottCare Corporation announces the introduction of Innovo, a rechargeable digital transmitter for the company’s VersaCare multi-parameter telemetry solution serving cardiopulmonary rehabilitation clinics throughout the U.S. and internationally. ScottCare will feature the Innovo unit in Booth #607 at this year’s Annual Meeting of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR) in Nashville, Tenn., October 3-5, 2013.

ScottCare continually works to augment their TeleRehab™ line with products that deliver improved usability, functionality and results. Designing the new transmitter with a low-maintenance lithium-ion rechargeable battery meets this goal while creating an overall cost savings for customers. The Innovo transmitter also incorporates multiple customer-centric features including an intelligent power-save mode that puts the unit to sleep after five minutes of inactivity, helping to conserve battery power and reduce operating costs. The Innovo also extends battery life and simplifies use by adding an On/Off switch to enable a quick and easy way to shutdown the device.

Improving upon prior transmitters, the Innovo is more than 30% smaller and lighter yet designed with increased durability to better withstand wear and tear. The Innovo also offers an illuminated and raised power switch for more effortless operation. The unit is compatible with all ScottCare digital telemetry systems and still features both 3-wire and 5-wire leads to meet customer needs.

In addition to the new Innovo transmitter, ScottCare will be showcasing the upcoming release of VersaCare version 2.1, which will feature direct integration with AACVPR’s Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation Registry. This integration will enable VersaCare users to more easily and precisely benchmark and manage patient outcomes against national data, helping to improve their overall program results.

VersaCare 2.1, the industry’s only Windows® 7 based rehab telemetry system, includes multiple usability enhancements including one-click modality transition, advanced Outcomes (SQL) query capabilities for customized reporting, incorporation of the MET formula for NuStep® T5 recumbent cross trainer users, and a more user-friendly layout for VersaCare’s mobile companion, VersaCare GO. VersaCare 2.1 will also include the availability of HIPAA-compliant encrypted hard drives and flash drives.

To see VersaCare in action, register for a live demo now.

About The ScottCare Corporation

ScottCare provides high quality devices, software, EHR data integration and clinical support services to aid hospitals and cardiology practices in the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease. Solutions include those for diagnostic monitoring, CIED patient data management, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and EHR data integration solutions. ScottCare also provides contracted ambulatory electrocardiographic and remote CIED device monitoring services for cardiologists and hospitals through its Ambucor Labor Services division. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, ScottCare is a subsidiary of The Scott Fetzer Company, a diversified manufacturer and marketer of high quality products for the home, family and industry comprising more than 20 businesses.