Bayer introduces Certegra Workstation

Bayer Radiology & Interventional announced the introduction of the Certegra® Workstation, an informatics-driven, touch‐screen hub that enables time savings and improved patient care through a powerful suite of CT Contrast Dose Management™ applications and a new P3T® 2.0 operating environment.  The new Workstation will be presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) 2012 June 7 - 12 in Orlando, FL. Following the initial launch in the U.S. and Canada, the Workstation will be rolled out in phases in markets around the world.

The Workstation serves as a single interface for radiology technologists, enabling them to provide improved patient care from study set-up and preparation to administration of the patient's study.  It will be the cornerstone of Bayer's industry-first Contrast Dose Management solution and informatics platform.  In establishing and uploading the patient's contrast-injection record, the Workstation imports patient data directly from the Modality Work List – reducing manual entry errors to the patient record.

"Today's technology-driven CT suite demands timely access to reliable contrast-dose records throughout the chain of care," said Anthony Cinalli, vice president of the informatics business at Bayer Radiology & Interventional.  "Enabling a single workflow-centralized interface, the Workstation allows for fewer clicks, less manual entry and greater control over the quality and consistency of patient care."

Interfacing with Medrad Stellant® CT injection systems, the Workstation's comprehensive suite of software options provides physicians and healthcare professionals instant access to real-time actionable CT contrast data captured at the point of care  ̶  enabling benefits including:

• Reduce sub-diagnostic studies, unnecessary rescans and associated radiation exposure,(P3T 2.0 for personalized CT abdominal, cardiac and pulmonary angiography studies)
• Enable more complete diagnostic decisions (PACS Outbound Interface)
• Speed-up radiology report turnaround time and create greater study-volume bandwidth (RIS and SR Outbound Interfaces)
• Improve department performance by trending, reporting and analyzing actionable data with pinpoint accuracy (Informatics Starter Package, and the Data Analysis and Reporting Tool)