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Real-Time ECG Quality Feedback

How does an offsite Cardiologist communicate that the quality of an ECG tracing is insufficient for interpretation and that the patient should be contacted for re-testing? And how does your organization document the identity of the testing site where the test was acquired and the identity of the Technician who performed the testing? … Read more >

Efficient ECG Report Distribution

If your organization is still printing ECG Reports, here are two simple changes you can make that will make your distribution process less costly but more productive. When we speak to organizations like yours, we often find that they are printing blood work results centrally, usually at the location where the analysis was performed.… Read more >

ECG Results Distribution: Still Printing?

We speak to many diagnostic testing organizations that have successfully converted to electronic management of most of their ECG processes. They acquire their ECG tests electronically, they transmit them electronically to Cardiologists for remote interpretation and they store the test results electronically. However, when it comes to distributing the ECG test results, these organizations are printing the results from electronic files and delivering those results by hand.… Read more >

ECG Test Routing: 7 Questions

If your organization offers ECG testing at a number of testing locations over a wide geographical area, you are probably facing demands that can only be met by an ECG management system with sophisticated test routing capabilities.… Read more >

Mobile ECG Management: 7 Security Questions

Now that ECG management technology has successfully bridged the gap between the testing clinic and the location of the interpreting Cardiologist, we are increasingly getting inquiries about applying that technology to the field of mobile ECG testing.… Read more >

ECG Management: Making the Connection

It is common for an ECG testing organization to confront the issue of incompatibility between its preferred ECG device and its preferred ECG data management software.… Read more >

QUALITYflo: Automated ECG Review

Not long ago, I visited a large organization with a busy ECG testing service. During that visit, I observed the process used by a manager to review ECG tracing quality, using the organization’s ECG management system.… Read more >

Exceptional ECG Management Reports

Busy ECG testing organizations benefit greatly if their ECG data management systems include exception reporting and exception triggers. Exception Reports automatically scrub voluminous management reports of “normal” data. As a result… Read more >

Measure the health of your ECG business

ECG data management technology can improve the health of your patients by collecting and centralizing information and by making it available in real-time. Problems are identified and treatment plans are implemented without delay.… Read more >

What’s Next in ECG Management Technology?

There is no question that the introduction of electronic ECG management brought vast improvements in productivity, profitability and clinical outcomes.… Read more >