Medtronic Paceart System

Clinic/TTM Management

Medtronic's complete Paceart System includes both clinic and TTM management components.

You can configure the Paceart System to meet your present needs, so you can easily add patients or physicians. And it works within your current clinic processes. Then as you grow, the system is sophisticated and powerful enough to advance with you:

• Supports most manufacturers' devices – pacemakers, ICDs, event monitors – and programmers
• Captures and manages clinical data during an office visit
• Records transtelephonic ECG transmissions
• Provides all critical patient data, event information, past and present symptoms, medications and referring physician in one easy-to-read summary report
• Adapts to the needs of your individual practice
• Eliminates the need for strip recorders and manual cutting and pasting
• Reduces records processing time so you may be able to see more patients without increasing staff
• Generates patient reminder letters, daily schedules and missed visits
• Faxes or e-mails results on demand
• Supplies information for Medicare audits
• Shares information across multiple sites
• Portable for on-site interrogations
• Paceart backs you with thorough system training and customer technical service

Optional CardioVoice^® TTM Assistant works with our TTM Management system to provide unattended around the clock service:

• Receives patients' transmissions at their convenience, night and day
• Records transtelephonic ECG transmissions
• Records patient voice message as well as cardiac event.
• Allows you to provide 24-hour coverage without adding staff
• Notifies you upon receipt of transmission
• Faxes or e-mails data on demand
• Drastically reduces paperwork, allowing you to focus on patient care
• Paceart backs you with thorough system training and customer technical service

While the complete Paceart System includes both clinic and TTM components, each is also available separately.

Technical Features

The Medtronic Paceart system is a computer software application that organizes relevant patient, cardiac device and programmer information to help clinics manage follow-up of implantable cardiac device patients. Paceart’s principal objective is to provide heart rhythm management solutions designed to allow clinicians and the cardiac device industry to optimize the care of patients with implanted cardiac devices.

The Paceart system is installed on Intel-compatible hardware running Microsoft Windows operating systems. The Paceart system uses Microsoft SQL Server for database hosting. Other components of the technical environment will include Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) if the provider has selected Paceart’s Web Access option.

Patient Data

Data Recording

The Paceart system creates an electronic patient record, which may contain patient-specific electronic protected health information (ePHI) data, including ECG and other monitored parameters and therapy events such as defibrillation and pacing. Patient data stored by the Paceart system can include for each patient: name, address, city and province, postal code, telephone numbers, fax numbers, medical record number, device numbers, date of admission and date of service.

Data Storage

The number of patient records managed by the Paceart system is dependent upon the storage capacity of the computer server hosting the ePHI data. Data are stored in a Microsoft SQL Server database.

Data Retrieval

Clinicians access ePHI via the Paceart system’s Windows-based user interface. Paceart allows the clinic’s system administrator to create and manage unique user identifications and passwords for each clinician accessing the system. User profiles controlling access to data can be created and assigned to individual user identifications and passwords. The Paceart System Administrator’s Manual details instructions for the creation and management of user identifications and passwords.

Data Transmission

For patient care or data archiving purposes, data may be transferred from the Paceart system to another data management tool employed by the clinic. Information is transferred via Paceart’s Export Module, which creates an XML-based message that is transmitted by the clinic’s network infrastructure.

Scheduling

One-Stop Scheduling

If you use the Paceart^® System together with the CareLink^® Network, you were used to entering patient remote schedules two to three times into different systems. Now that's over.

CareLink and Paceart 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 Paceart HL7^® connectivity, you can schedule in your EHR or master scheduling system and the appointment transfers automatically to Paceart, CareLink, and the device. 

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.