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The database of the FINESSE® System: Range of efforts and functions

Software...
  • 32 Bit-Application for Windows® 95/98 and Windows® NT
  • Philosophy and ergonomy of software according to the design instructions of Windows® 95/98/NT
  • Simple handling by clear program structure and modern index tabs
  • Completely compatible to the FINESSE® Data Aquisition System
  • Replicatable structure for data synchronization with satellite centers or home patients

Basic security information ...

  • User’s administration with password entry
  • Identification of user when changing important data

Administration...

  • Demographic data of patients with integrated photographs
  • Address administration of employees, external doctors and labs

Medical basic data...

  • Anamnesis / Patient history (any text entry)
  • CAVE! / Attention list
  • Aquisition of the sum of dialysis treatments with registration of follow-up treatments
  • Chronological display of patient‘s state
  • Shunt-History

Medical documentation...

  • Clear depiction of treatment data automatically recorded by the FINESSE® Unit Monitor with survey of treatments and detailed contexts
  • Display of all single measurements recorded online as well as representation of continuous measurements to be defined in any interval (from 15 min)

Planning of treatments...

  • Comfortable treatment planning with treatment organisation, medication, definition of dialysis profile (if necessary with assignment of effort numbers)
  • Registration of consumption materials
    (provided for inventory update)
  • Definition of setting for equipment and UF rate as base for the FINESSE® Download
  • Fixing of UF base rate as prescription for the UF calculation to be done on the current day of treatment by the FINESSE® Unit Monitor.

Assistant functions for treatment planning and quality control

  • Urea kinetics modelling
    (Single Pool Variable Volume with NPCR) for user friendly quality control and automatic therapy optimization
  • Comfortable diagrams for evaluation of dialysis parameters and lab data
  • Automatic UF calculation on the current day of treatment based on values given by the dialysis regulations
  • Patient’s questionnaire for ascertaining of discomfort within the interdialytical interval
 

 

 

Administration of lab data...
  • Lab data transfer via modem or floppy disk by standardized LDT interface
  • Integrated lab data management with automatical listing of "open" orders
  • Comfortable user defined presentation for the course of essential lab values
  • On-screen diagram of all results

 

Protocols – user defined arrangement (Content/Layout)

  • Protocol "Dialysis regulations"
  • Protocol "Lab orders and results"
  • Treatment protocols
  • Printing of diagrams (b/w or color)

 

Integrated selection lists...

  • Dialyzers
  • Concentrates
  • Machines
  • Shunts
  • Cannulas
  • Blood line sets
  • Kinds of anticoagulation
  • Different types of treatment

Connectivity to billing programs...

  • Connection of external billing programs
    (Application of the interface "BDT" recommended by the federal union of panel doctors)
  • Automatic data adaption (no double keeping of basic data!)

Compatibility...

  • Database engine: Microsoft® DAO (MS-ACCESS-compatible)
  • User-defined analysis and evaluation
    possible with MS-ACCESS and MS-EXCEL
  • Integration of scanner and digital cameras

Perspektives...

  • Quality assurance by functions of comparison (Control: deviation from dialysis regulations and others)
  • EPO-Modelling
  • FINESSE® Download (automatic transfer of preset information to Fresenius dialysis machines from first half-year of 1998)
  • CE-Certification (in preparation)

Automatic recording of online treatment data
(Captured by the FINESSE® Unit Monitor)...

  • Patient scales
  • Dialysis machines
  • Blood pressure monitors
  • Blood temperature monitor
  • Blood volume monitor
  • Electrolyte measuring instruments
  • Blood gas analysers

Service...

  • E-Mail and phone support
  • Service via RAS (Modem/Internet)
  • Maintenance contracts