Bayer Healthcare launches Certegra Informatics software platform

Bayer HealthCare’s radiology and interventional division has announced the introduction of the Certegra Infomatics software platform, bringing patient-focused contrast delivery management through a touch‐screen hub that enables time savings and improved patient care.

This is managed through a powerful suite of CT Contrast Dose Management tools and a new personalised patient protocol (P3T 2.0) operating environment.

Certegra Workstation serves as a unified interface for radiographers, driving standardisation and improving 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 informatics software platform.

In establishing and uploading the patient’s contrast-injection record, the platform imports patient’s historic data directly from the Modality Work List, reducing manual entry errors to the patient record.

“Today’s technology-driven CT departments demand timely access to reliable contrast-dose records throughout the chain of care,” said Nicole Farmer, head of Bayer HealthCare’s radiology and interventional division in the UK.

“The Certegra platform offers a single user interface which is designed specifically to impact patient outcomes through allowing streamlining in contrast delivery, reduced manual entry, increased control over quality and consistency of patient care. Further, it captures the patient experience, delivering information to the appropriate decisionmaker.”

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:

• Reduced sub-diagnostic studies, unnecessary rescans and associated radiation exposure, (P3T 2.0 for personalised CT abdominal, cardiac and pulmonary angiography studies)
• More complete diagnostic decisions (PACS Outbound Interface)
• Quicker radiology report turnaround time and increased accuracy
• Improved department performance by trending, reporting and analysing actionable data with pinpoint accuracy (Informatics Starter Package, and the Data Analysis and Reporting Tool)