TAVR planning with valve-sizing software: GE Healthcare tech easier to use than competition
Summary
Each beginner completed System Usability Scale (SUS) and ISONORM questionnaires designed to provide a quick snapshot of how easy it was to use the software. Valve Assist 2 required users to ask fewer question, the authors added, and it resulted in faster measurements. This sudden drop for the Pie Medical Imaging software, researchers observed, could be seen as additional evidence it is harder for beginners to use than GE Healthcare’s Valve Assist 2. The group concluded that GE Healthcare’s Valve Assist 2 was significantly better from a usability point of view than Pie Medical Imaging’s 3mensio Structural Heart. Butter et al. emphasized that they had no financial conflicts of interest to report; they do not have relationships with GE Healthcare or Pie Medical Imaging that may have influenced this analysis.