• Keep files on patients in easy-to-reach electronic form.
• Keep comprehensive records of patient visits, including symptoms, prescribed medications, and diagnoses.
• Record details of pacemaker or ICD implants, measurements, and settings.
• Record ECGs from ranging from single event monitors to 12 lead ECG machines.
• View and edit ECGs on-screen as they are being recorded or later.
• Add measurements and associated notes and annotations to ECGs.
• Record details of exercise tests and rehabilitation prescriptions.
• Produce a variety of printed reports on patients.
• Keep a handy appointment scheduler.

• Organization and Display - The GEMS main window is organized by a tree-view and data-panel approach. In the tree-view area, the primary record (patient, physician, associated health professional) appears as the top node in the tree, and all supporting information hangs below it, where as the data-panel displays the details of the selected node of the tree-view.
  
• Navigation - The search toolbar provides the ability to search the database for specific records. Matching records are displayed in the data-panel.
  
• Main Entity Records - Data in GEMS is presented hierarchically. At the top level are the main records, such as, patient, physician, AHP (associated health professional), contact, facility, and provider records. In the treeview, all information is presented in a form that centers on one of these types of record.
  
• Customization - There are many options for customizing the look of the GEMS screen. Various parts of the screen may be modified to suit individual or organizational needs. Toolbar buttons are available for each menu command in GEMS. Toolbars in GEMS can be created, modified, and deleted for quick access to different commands.

Main User Interface Window

Customizable Toolbars

ECG Recording and Storage

In ECG Viewer of the GEMS products , ECGs can be :

• Received and recorded from acoustic devices, serially connected devices, or via electronic files.
• Viewed with a variety of speeds, gains, and filtering levels.
• Edited with three forms of calipers measurements and markets.
• Horizontal, vertical, and beat complex calipers.
• Annotated with sample and text markers and comments.
• Samples in 8, 16, 24, and 32 second lengths used to select significant portions of the ECG for inclusion in reports.
• Text comments for recording comments directly on the ECG strip.
• Printed in multiple formats.

• Scheduler is a tool for managing appointments for TTM Pacing Follow-ups, In-Clinic Pacemaker/ICD patient Follow-ups, or Arrhythmia tests.
• Scheduler is equivalent to a traditional appointment ledger. You get the familiar look and feel of an appointment book , and the convenient features of a centralized database for managing all appointments.
• Selecting the point of view for looking at appointments is simple and direct, so the appointment schedule can be viewed quickly and easily.
• Scheduler can auto-schedule your patient's appointments as well as track, reschedule or change appointment dates and times.

Scheduler Interface

Report preview

Batch Reporting

In GEMS, Pacemaker & ICD Follow-ups records represent ongoing or completed interaction between a patient and the health care system for the specific purpose of following-up on a patient with a Pacemaker /ICD Implant. The Pacemaker & ICD Follow-up forms:

• Store descriptive information about the interaction , such as dates, diagnoses, physicians involved, etc.
• Group together event records that describe specific health care activities, such as recording a patient's ECG or prescribing a medication.

GEMS Pacemaker, ICD, & Arrhythmia Management version introduces the Guidant Disk Upload feature. This feature facilitates the upload of device programmer disks for Pacemakers and ICDs per the latest specifications from Guidant

Programmer Disk Upload Feature

In addition to the features described above, our latest version of GEMS offers the following :

• speed, gain and frequency filters
• addition of Beat Complex caliper measurements
• full patient data Import/Exporting capabilities
• assignment and tracking of event recorders
• record of entire pacemaker/ICD implant history
• extensive and customizable device dictionary
• full field label language translation using GEMS Editor
• single and multi-user licensing available
• HL7 interface compatible

GEMS works with the following operating systems:
Windows™ XP, 2000, NT and 98