Cardiology Information Management System
The Section of Cardiology at the Heart Center at Texas Children’s Hospital has been developing a clinical database since 1985, going through several iterations in database engines and user interfaces. CardioIMS allows immediate “on-line” access to cardiology patients’ demographic and medical information and all cardiology related investigations such as echocardiograms, ECGs, and cardiac catheterizations, as well as cardiovascular surgery.
The database will soon be integrated more closely with several other Texas Children’s clinical information systems such as Logician, Oacis and Stentor.
There are greater than 80,000 patients recorded in the database who have been evaluated and treated by the Section of Cardiology since 1954, when Dr. Dan McNamara started the section at the opening of Texas Children’s.
Congenital Heart Surgery data from 1954 from the Texas Heart Institute has been transferred into the database with over 12,900 operations documented to date.
Since 1964, there have been 32,251 cardiac catheterizations performed at Texas Children’s. In 2003, there were the following:
| Total Cardiology Patient Events
| 47,836 |
| Admissions
| 1622 |
| Consultations
| 1159 |
| ER visits
| 339 |
| Clinic visits
| 10,910 with 5417 new patients |
| Cardiac catheterizations
| 981 |
| Cardivascular surgery
| 787 |
| Echocardiograms
| 12,516 |
| ECGs
| 18,211 including 2,241 Holter monitors |
| Pacemaker clinic visits
| 1008 |
| MRI studies
| >300 |
In 2002, the database was acquired by VMI Medical and transformed into a web-based database called CardioIMS, available to everyone at TCH via the hospital intranet. Patient demographic information is imported from IDX, Texas Children’s admissions database. VMI Medical has subsequently merged with Camtronics Medical Systems whose parent company is Analogic Corporation.
The database is an Oracle database, with a Web browser “front end” and is accessed through the Texas Children’s intranet. The database can be accessed by remote users through the hospital firewall.
Faculty Member
Database Administrator
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