N.C. hospital to automate cath lab processes into EMR

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Rex Hospital, a member of University of North Carolina (UNC) Health Care in North Carolina, has implemented Merge Hemo from Merge Healthcare to automate their cath lab processes into their electronic patient record.

"Our cardiovascular volume has been growing by 20 percent annually for the past few years and we expect that growth to continue into the future," said Diana Massa, director of heart and vascular services at Rex Hospital in Raleigh, N.C. "With plans for future expansion, we were looking for [a new technology] that will help us standardize processes across seven heart, vascular and interventional radiology labs."

Merge Hemo captures data and documents procedural events. The Merge Cardiology suite also includes Merge Cardio, an enterprise-level image and information system that provides one point of entry to the patient's cardio record for all cardiac modalities, according to the Chicago-based company.

 

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