Philips upgrades Xcelera for telecardiology

Philips Healthcare has introduced telecardiology capabilities and other enhancements to its Xcelera multimodality cardiology image management, analysis and reporting solution.

The company is introducing Xcelera R3.1 with new telecardiology capabilities to allow remote access to cardiac information—including from a home office computer, image sharing with referring physicians and the ability to access Xcelera functionality through other applications such as an EHR system.

The new release also offers an expanded pediatric echocardiography normative dataset.

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