ARIA® OIS for Medical Oncology

The ARIA medical oncology information system provides the tools you need to manage the clinical, administrative, and financial activities in your medical oncology department.

ARIA combines radiation, medical and surgical oncology information into a complete, oncology-specific EMR that allows you to manage the patient's entire journey - from initial diagnosis through post-treatment follow-up.

Disease management

The oncology-specific electronic medical record (EMR) is the centerpiece of ARIA. With ARIA you can design a personalised care pathway for each patient from initial diagnosis through to follow-up.

Maintain a complete problem list including primary diagnosis and other problems (ICD-0, -9, & -10)
Automate cancer staging, and create custom stage groupings
View labs, drug doses, toxicities, reviews of systems, physical examination assessments and notes with ARIA’s patient flow sheets
Document disease response and track adverse events

Chemotherapy and other orders

ARIA manages chemotherapy, drug orders and all other non-drug doctor orders.

Chemotherapy ordering:

Select from a library of approximately 300 disease-specific regimens
Automated dose calculations (m2, /Kg, and AUC) and dose rounding
Diluent amounts can be defined as calculated versus fixed amounts

Drug ordering:

Drug interaction checking (drug-drug, drug-allergy, drug-diagnosis, drug-gender) using Medi-Span^© or FirstData Bank interaction checking
Dose limit checking, including maximum daily/lifetime cumulative dose
Ability to adjust dose by percentage, mg/m2 dose or calculated dose
Dose calculation mechanism to account for changes in patient’s conditions such as weight, BSA, and serum creatinine.

Non-drug doctor ordering:

Structured point-and-click selection of: labs, diagnostics, return visits, procedures, and referrals

Pharmacy

Pharmacists can prepare mixtures before the patient arrives for treatment. ARIA’s pharmacy dispensing module enables pharmacists to prepare drugs based on expected versus actual orders.

Calculation of drug orders and generation of prescriptions including product expiry date, pharmacy orders and labels (complete with barcodes)
Ability to calculate agent volume, syringe sizes and quantities
Inventory forecasting

Decision support

ARIA's decision support engine provides an additional measure of safety for patients. The system's embedded if/then logic provides decision support to a variety of tasks at the point of care. ARIA can construct and automatically apply treatment modifications based on test values, toxicity assessments and schedules. This functionality, combined with specialised protocol development features, helps clinicians manage complex patient scenarios including clinical trials.

Clinical trials

Manage the entire clinical trials administration process with embedded tools that support trial identification, execution, and protocol compliance.

Patient eligibility screening and protocol-driven scheduling
Create protocols and documentation including consent forms
Rule-based toxicity management
Case Report Form (CRF) completion

Health assessment

Record, monitor and evaluate patient health throughout the course of treatment and design a personalised care plan that addresses the unique needs of each patient.

Manage toxicities and grading schemes for specific chemotherapy regimens
Document adverse events (type, onset date, the response and severity)
Record reviews of systems and physical exams using templates, free text, or voice-capture dictation
Enter vital signs and use ARIA's graphing capability to identify trends
ECOG, GOG, Karnofsky, WHO and Lansky performance status scales
Register disease response for solid tumours

Data Collection and Analysis

ARIA collects data at the point of care and makes it readily available for outcomes analysis and reporting. Patient information is tracked from initial diagnosis throughout treatment and follow-up. Diagnosis-specific data can be examined to segment patients and evaluate long-term outcomes.

Charge capture

Record all procedures and activities performed in your department at the point of care to ensure accurate charge posting. ARIA automatically captures codes for all completed activities to enable charge and relative value unit (RVU) export, process tracking and productivity analysis.

Use HCPCS, CPT and custom billing codes
Verify ICD codes for allowable drug/test/imaging reimbursements
Provide evidence-based support for claimed charges

Report generation

ARIA for medical oncology contains over 1500 preconfigured, embedded reports that provide you with valuable, up-to-date information with just a few keystrokes.

Clinical / outcomes: toxicity, treatment patterns and responses, population and survival
Financial: insurance listing, revenue and costing, and super bills / fee tickets
Operational: auditing, referral patterns, workload measurements, and quality assurance
Pharmacy: drug inventory requirements, worksheets and drug usage
Clinical trials: Case Report Forms (CRFs), adverse event listing, and variance reporting

Information Exchange

Improve patient care and accelerate department workflow by electronically exchanging patient data and images with other healthcare departments including pathology, radiology, pharmacy, lab and billing.

Use standard HL7 interfaces or create custom non-HL7 interfaces as required
Specify real-time or schedule-driven update intervals
Customise data filters to specify the types of information exchanged
Remote installation, configuration and support

Survivorship

Varian has teamed with Equicare Health, Inc. to introduce EQUICARE CS™, the first commercially available, oncology-specific software solution for survivorship navigation and distress management.

Survivorship Case Management

EQUICARE CS case management software enables cancer centres to develop a structured follow-up program to deliver services to the growing population of cancer survivors.

Key Features

Clinical knowledge base that models industry guidelines for cancer survivorship
Productivity tools that free clinical staff to focus on providing care to survivors
A Web-based portal that links each survivor to the care team
A longitudinal patient electronic medical record (EMR)

When you register, you will receive access to a:

Guided EQUICARE CS feature tour
Sample Care Plan
3-part Webinar series
Customer testimonial

Navigation

Equicare CS Navigation provides tools for implementing Navigation services within a hospital or clinic. Such services can streamline workflows and reduce delays in patient care.

Key Features

Distress management at key intervals during care
Enhanced workflow for tracking referrals, problem management, and patient encounters
Track and report the amount of time Navigators spend on patient case
Provide reports to support operational, American College of Surgeon (ACOS) and NCI Community Cancer Centers Program (NCCCP) requirements