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Tyranny of the Urgent

Shawn McKenzie, president & CEO of Ascendian Healthcare Consulting, shares his view about the noisy undercurrents in health care today and how his company is making a difference in navigating those waters for the long term.

The Ascendian Difference

In a recent interview with Medic Exchange TV at RSNA 2010, Shawn McKenzie discussed how Ascendian differentiates itself from other healthcare consulting firms. Through their clinically based service model, Ascendian puts healthcare providers at the forefront of patient care while integrating the tools of information technology.

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As Featured in Diagnostic and Inverventional Cardiology Magazine

By Val Kapitula and Jen Ireland, Ascendian Healthcare Consulting

Today’s healthcare is changing in many ways and so are the processes, technology and people delivering the extremely complex cardiology procedures and services. There are multiple biomedical and technical advances that are proving to optimize patient care. With declining budgets and reimbursements, healthcare providers are under increasing pressure to develop effective ways of improving efficiency and reducing costs, while maintaining high levels of patient care. Cardiology picture archiving and communication systems (CPACS) and cardiovascular information systems (CVIS) provide considerable benefits to health systems when successfully implemented.

Comparing CPACS vs. CVIS

CPACS, similar to radiology PACS, mainly focus on storage and retrieval of cardiology-centric images. However, one of the key differentiators with CPACS is its ability to support DICOM structure reporting (DICOM SR) for echocardiography (echo) measurements, which is not available through the conventional radiology PACS. In terms of dataflow, CPACS will receive an in-bound HL7 order with patient demographics from upstream information management systems, and once the images are acquired from the imaging modalities via DICOM modality work list (DMWL), they are profiled against the order and stored in CPACS for further distribution, viewing and long-term archive...

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Ascendian

Located in Northern California, Ascendian Healthcare Consulting is a thought leader in Health IT, Healthcare Information Technology, and Healthcare Systems, and provides integrated solutions for physicians, hospitals, medical groups, and IDN (Independent Delivery Networks). They bring specialized consulting in Electronic Health Records and PACS (Picture Archiving Communications System) including MRIs, X-Rays, CT scans, CVIS (Cardiovascular Information Systems) and improved medical imaging for Electronic Medical Records. Ascendian implements cutting edge telemedicine and telehealth initiatives for both public and private sectors. Ascendian Healthcare Consulting offers mission critical insights that assist with healthcare equipment procurement and custom integration.