Mainspring Data Express

Background

Connecting data between systems gives you a more efficient and effective information infrastructure and helps provide a more efficient workflow. This, in turn, helps to improve clinical documentation to support appropriate billing services, provide access to patient records at remote locations, and meet the requirements of a “meaningful user” under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

Medtronic helps connect implanted cardiac device data to your clinic system, including electronic health record (EHR) systems, by providing cutting edge software which enables data to flow from the device to your desktop. The data moves between Medtronic applications and your clinic system. The following paper highlights the importance of connecting data to the EHR: Connecting Cardiac Device Data and the EHR (PDF, 4.75 MB).

Medtronic Mainspring Report Export

Mainspring^™ Report Export electronically moves Medtronic diagnostic reports from the CareLink^® Network to your Electronic Health Record System/Clinic Data System in a timely, efficient manner.

Benefits of Mainspring Report Export

Paperless Follow-Up

• Provides an efficient, paperless process for storing and distributing diagnostic reports and improving efficiency
• Improves clinic workflow by eliminating the need to print and scan reports

Easy Access to Reports

• Easily and automatically moves diagnostic reports from the CareLink website to your clinic network
• Reports can be shared with other clinicians
• Reports are accessible for import into your Electronic Health Record (EHR) System, Paceart System, or other data management system without printing, faxing, or scanning

Enhanced Continuity of Care

• Less time managing a paper-driven workflow means more time for managing patients
• Electronic access to patient information improves overall healthcare coordination

Note: Customers should follow their internal security/privacy procedures for handling patient data on the programmers and USB flash drives.

One-Stop Scheduling

If you use the CareLink^® Network and Paceart^® System, you may need to enter patient remote schedules two to three times into different systems. Now that’s over.

CareLink Network and Paceart System schedules are integrated to offer One-Stop Scheduling. Enter your CareLink appointments in the Paceart System or the CareLink Website, and you’re done. Scheduling information is automatically shared between the systems, making your life simpler, more efficient.

If you use an EHR data interface, you can schedule in your EHR or master scheduling system and the appointment transfers automatically to the Paceart System, CareLink Network, and the device. The following tutorial demonstrates how easy One-Stop Scheduling is:   Scheduling. Simplified.

Benefits of One-Stop Scheduling

Simple

• Schedule in one system. Reduce data entry errors.

Efficient

• Monitor all missed appointments in one place. Track patients lost to follow-up.

Patient Focused

• Spend more time managing patients. Spend less time entering data.

EHR Data

The Paceart solution creates a single connection point, or gateway, for data exchange between the Paceart System and other healthcare information systems, such as electronic health record (EHR) and practice management systems. The Paceart System consolidates patient arrhythmia and device data from multiple sources.

The Paceart System’s HL7 interface allows clinics to:

• Eliminate the need to maintain costly interfaces for five or more different device manufacturers
• Make information more readily available to clinicians
• Help enhance the accuracy of patient information through automated transfer
• Reduce duplicate effort and data entry
• Enhance interoperability between clinic information systems

The Paceart System’s technical support team provides assistance with clinic implementation, training, and use of the HL7 standards. Medtronic is committed to providing ongoing service and support to Paceart System customers.

“Paceart is the hub of all activity that occurs in the device center. It allows us to integrate all the responsibilities we have for managing our patients and all of the information we have concerning those patients into one place, in a format that makes it easy for us to interpret the information.”

—Charles Love, MD
Director, Arrhythmia Device Services
The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio

The following study, conducted at The Ohio Heart and Vascular Center, showed a 9-minute per patient time savings in the clinic workflow processes¹ when a device follow-up system is integrated into a clinic’s EHR.

The Medtronic Paceart^® System is the only device follow-up system on the market that integrates demographics, scheduling, and device data all in one place – providing a single solution for all device data and unmatched EHR coverage.

Paceart Time Study (PDF, 155 KB)

Meeting IHE Guidelines

IHE is an intitiative by healthcare professionals and industry to improve the way computer systems in healthcare share information. IHE goals are:

• Promote the coordinated use of established standards such as HL7 to address specific clinical need in support of optimal patient care
• Accelerate the adoption of EHRs by improving the exchange of information among healthcare systems
• Improve the quality, efficiency, and safety of clinical care by making relevant health information conveniently accessible to patients and authorized care providers

IHE Integration Statements describe how systems should be designed to interoperate. They identify the specific IHE capabilities a given product is designed to support in terms of the key concepts of IHE: Actors (a role that a given system performs) and Integration Profiles (integration function). The Medtronic IHE integration statement (PDF, 13 KB) describes how Medtronic’s data connectivity technology has implemented the IHE technical framework

Showcasing EHR Connectivity

Medtronic participates on the Implantable Device Cardiac Observation (IDCO) committee, and successfully completed the IHE Connectathon testing of the IDCO profile in January of 2010. In this round of testing, Medtronic connected with EHR vendors including Epic, General Electric, NextGen, and Medical Micrographics.

Medtronic showcased its complete data connectivity solution at the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference in March of 2010. As the only cardiac device manufacturer participating in the Interoperability Showcase, Medtronic displayed its ability to connect cardiac device data to an Electronic Health Record (EHR).

SessionSync Software

Disk-free Data Transfer From the Programmer to the Paceart System

Faced with increasing volumes of patient and device data, cardiac clinics need efficient ways to organize workflow and provide care. SessionSync^® software offers a fast and easy way to transfer in-clinic cardiac device data for Medtronic devices into your Paceart System.

SessionSync software lets you break free from the use of floppy disks and other portable media and avoid manual data transfer. Direct downloads through SessionSync software improve clinic workflow, save valuable time, and may enhance data accuracy by reducing possible errors associated with manual data entry.

SessionSync software on the Medtronic CareLink Programmer transfers device follow-up data directly from the programmer into a patient’s Paceart System record. Simply end the follow-up session on the programmer, and the data automatically populate Paceart System fields via the clinic’s Ethernet network.

The CareLink Programmer can connect to your clinic’s network via an Ethernet cable or a wireless connection.* For programmers used at remote locations that aren’t connected to the clinic’s network, the programmer will store up to 200 follow-up sessions and automatically transfer data to the Paceart System once the network connection is re-established.

SessionSync software supports direct data transfer for about three-quarters of Medtronic’s implantable cardiac devices. A complete listing of SessionSync-enabled devices can be found in this Implantable Cardiac Device Guide (PDF, 305 KB).

By automatically transferring data after the programmer session, the Paceart System:

• Improves efficiency by eliminating time-consuming manual data transfer. A recent study demonstrated a time savings of 2.5 minutes per patient when using automatic data transfer versus manual data entry.¹
• Allows patient records to be complete and accurate
• Provides greater flexibility in room setup and patient care 

* Use of SessionSync in a wireless configuration requires a Medtronic-supplied 802.11b wireless card and an established 802.11b-compatible wireless network. The network must support WEP wireless security. Medtronic will not establish or maintain a clinic’s wireless infrastructure. For questions about wireless SessionSync, contact Medtronic Paceart’s Technical Support Team at 1 (800) PACEART.