v15

GE Healthcare

enCORE
Enhancing clinical assessment and productivity
Introducing
our next generation of bone
densitometry applications
GEs commitment to help protect the vitality of your patients and your
practice drives continuous improvements in our products. Refresh your
DXA system with our latest in clinical and productivity enhancements.

Check out just a few of the features available in enCORE version 15:
CLINICAL ASSESSMENT ENHANCEMENTS

Body composition1
Weight and body mass index do not provide a complete picture Color coded images give you the tools to help your
of metabolic health. Body composition analysis goes beyond the patients understand their body composition and visualize
obvious for a highly detailed, carefully measured representation changes over time.
of the condition of the body. By distinguishing among fat mass, Clear distinction of bone, fat and lean tissue
lean mass, and bone, the application gives you in-depth
Flexible user options to determine spectrum and
information you need to help make sound therapeutic decisions.
color displays
enCORE 15 is loaded with new features to help with the analysis.
Color mapping images2 give you the tools to help your
The Metabolic tab within enCORE reports the Resting Metabolic
patients understand where high areas of fat are located
Rate (RMR) and Relative Skeletal Muscle Index (RSMI), and gives
and visualize changes over time.
users the ability to enter hydration levels manually.
Different colors distinguish areas of high, medium
Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) can serve as a baseline for and low fat.
determining the minimum nutritional needs of a patient. The
Flexible user options to define % fat thresholds and
RMR can be generated by selecting a method, such as Harris-
color displays
Benedict or Mifflin-St. Jeor, or by manually entering a value.
Color coding Color mapping
Relative Skeletal Mass Index Before After Before After
(RSMI) can be used to assess
the lean/fat distribution in the
arms and legs.

NEW FEATURE
For customers using external
devices to measure body
water, the following hydration
levels can be entered:
Total Body Water (TBW)
Intra-cellular Water (ICW)
Extra-cellular Water (ECW)
Trending of this data and other key fields are available
options through the reporting tools. The Body Comp
Advanced feature is required.
For customers with the CoreScan* feature, VAT (Visceral Adipose
Tissue) mass and volume wll be displayed on the tab called CoreScan
for patients 18 years of age or older. The CoreSan tab offers the option
to view current VAT results and to view graphical trending of previous
results. Additionally, a dedicated stylesheet has been included with the
composer reports to provide a comprehensive template for reporting
VAT results as part of a body composition assessment.

MirrorImage automatically estimates results for regions of

interest outside the scan window based on what has been
scanned. It allows you to provide body composition and BMD
results for large patients.

NEW PRODUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENTS

Windows 7 Electronic health record compatibility

enCORE v15 is designed for use with the Microsoft Windows The software will offer customers the capability to send data
7 32-bit Operating System only, using Service Pack 1. from the BMD reports to EHR systems in the following formats:
Report data fields Text from the reports
Dose tracking Images of the reports
Decreasing patient exposure to radiation dose is an impor-
Heres a sampling of the EMR systems with which weve interfaced:
tant area of focus for radiology departments. enCORE v15
improves dose tracking capabilities for DXA exams. Skin Affinity Cerner Medent Merge
entrance dose is available on reports with either Practice AllMeds Epic Medical Siemens
Management Tools or Composer. Additional information, Allscripts GE Communication Vitera
including total skin entrance dose for the exam, may be Systems
Aprima Keane
exported via DICOM** MPPS to hospital information systems Meditech
capable of accepting it as well as dose reporting systems Avairis McKesson
such as GE Healthcares DoseWatch.
NEW FEATURE SQL server database environment
The total skin entrance dose delivered during an exam enCORE v15 uses Microsoft SQL Server Express for archiving
including completed, aborted, and repositioned scans is patient data instead of Microsoft Access. SQL Server is more
included in the DICOM message. robust than Access and can handle larger databases. The
software supports either Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005, or
Simplification of report 2008 or Microsoft SQL Server Express 2008 R2 format.
generation interface Security application access control
The reporting process has been simplified in enCORE v15.
enCORE supports application-level access controls. This
All reports can be created directly in the Report Center and
feature uses Windows user logins and user groups to limit
are user-editable.
enCORE functionality, and supports electronic signatures
Additionally,
based on user group roles.
Composer reports
Theres even an optional
are now translated
configuration setting to
(excluding custom
verify digital signatures for
text), and all report
Composer reports.
fields can be
exported to HL7 and
DICOM. This makes
the reporting
process simple for
new users, improves
reporting efficiency
for existing users,
and allows full
customization for
advanced users.
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