Link your ophthalmic EMR and practice management system

Patient medical records, previous examination results, refractive measurements, diagnostic images, prescriptions: Like most eye care practices today, you have to manage lots of data. The question is: Are they readily available and easy to access when and wherever you need them? And can they be integrated with your electronic medical records (EMR) and Practice Management System (PMS), or with your Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)?

The central database is a valuable asset for any ophthalmic practice, storing patient data, electronic medical records and images along with much more information. ZEISS Essential Line connectivity solutions allow you to streamline and fully leverage that data. They can save your staff a lot of time with tasks involving instrument configuration, patient reseating, paper printouts and information location. 

Ever faster developments in the field of modern optometry practice management software and database solutions raise a key question: How can you ensure long-term data compatibility, security and migration flexibility? Our answer: With a standard that is universally accepted in the medical world – DICOM.

• Increased practice efficiency with recognized data standards, saving you valuable time every day
• Fast, easy data transfer between devices, workstations, exam rooms and practice sites
• Lower data maintenance and paper usage costs
• Reduced manual data input eliminates errors
• Combined patient data from several devices for confident diagnostic assessments
• Better investment planning through modular, expandable software and database systems
   

• Plug & play accessory for the VISUREF^® 100 auto refractometer / keratometer, VISULENS^® 500 digital lensmeter and VISUPLAN^® 500 non-contact tonometer – all from ZEISS
• Serial-to-Ethernet adapter and server software
• Creates a DICOM link to ZEISS FORUM and PACS software
• Provides a web-based XML interface for ophthalmic patient management software
• Supports the use of modality work list

Key benefits

• Connects ZEISS Essential Line devices to your network anywhere in the practice (e.g. in the pretest area or the exam room)
• Enables the use of DICOM work lists and transfer of results directly to the central archive – both via tablet and PC
• Lets you manage multiple ZEISS Essential Line devices with one interface via LAN or WiFi
  

ZEISS FORUM offers you a scalable and flexible eye care data management solution that can be tailored to your needs. It streamlines practice workflow, providing access to all patient examinations, and integrates seamlessly with existing IT landscapes and diagnostic instruments.

Starting with a central archive and viewer, ZEISS FORUM can be expanded into a comprehensive, multi-site, off-instrument review solution. Unique ZEISS FORUM workplace applications for retina and glaucoma patients allow you to assess the information you need to make confident decisions at a glance.

Patient management systems or electronic patient records are not commonplace in many small practices. Even without a medical data management solution, they can benefit from data connectivity: thanks to ZEISS software.

Small and medium-sized practices that manage their eye care workflow with the help of a PMS can also connect ZEISS pretest devices via the serial interface. Medical Technician Assistants (MTAs) can store pretest data in the PMS and use it to preset the subjective refraction. Work lists can be created for subjective refraction and the data can be stored in the central data archive.

ZEISS VISUCONNECT^® 500 links your pretest area with your PMS or ophthalmic data archive as the central storage site for refractive data. Thus, MTAs can maintain their pretest area workflow without needing to manually manage refractive data. These are available to all authorized users as soon as the MTA sends them to the connected data management system. Work lists can be created both for pretest devices as well as for subjective refraction.