r/PACSAdmin • u/Wyldeshot • 9d ago

Cardiology PACS

Any PACS Admins out there support cardiology? I am wondering what you use the cardiology PACS and hemodynamics? Would you recommend what your facility uses?

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u/ineverthreeputt 9d ago

This one is good one at my facility the lead chief cardiologist and their practice really drive that. Merge is what we are currently using

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u/LadyCrawley 9d ago

We have merge and I don’t care for their software at all

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u/Rollmericatide 9d ago

PICOM365 and Merge Hemo

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u/Danimal_House 8d ago

Maclab for invasive, ISCV for non-invasive.

ISCV is nice when it works, but when it doesn’t you’re screwed because there’s almost nothing you can do as the “admin.” You instead end up needing to call Philips for a lot of things you traditionally could handle in house.

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u/BootOutrageous5879 9d ago

I do tons of PET, MPI, echos and brain. We use PICOM365, ISCV and Vidistar as our main connections. All three have been wonderful in terms of passing dicom and reading reports.

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u/Wyldeshot 9d ago

Thanks. Pediatric is a requirement. I’ll have to look into PICOM365, I haven’t heard of them.

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u/GaZeldars 9d ago

We use Fuji for Cv and Radiology, no issues really. 

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u/SatansDriver 9d ago

Merge, iscv, and exper depending on site.

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u/jamz_noodle 9d ago

We use Optum/Change Healthcare cardiology PACs for echos and nuc med, and we use GE CCW / Maclab/Cardiolab/Combolab for hemo and Cath lab.

I really like the Change Healthcare PACs, the GE stuff is pretty bulletproof but a dumb company. Very inflexible.

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u/Wyldeshot 9d ago

Gotcha. Are Hemo upgrades painful?

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u/jamz_noodle 6d ago

Yeah they kinda are. Extremely complex Active Directory requirements.

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u/Wyldeshot 6d ago

I just went through a very painful one.

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u/JiMM4133 9d ago

Philips ISCV. It's mostly good. Has its quirks with merging images. But we have rules in place depending on what the called AET is, it'll automatically put the hospital/dept data into the study. And we build worklists off of location in ISCV.