International Healthcare Solutions Provider and US Healthcare Consultancy Agree Strategic Partnership

A leading US healthcare consultancy and an international Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) solutions provider have forged a partnership to find joint opportunities in the medical imaging market.

HIT systems are intended to help clinicians make clinical decisions, and can be designed so that they can predict which exams and laboratory reports a clinician needs when they visit a patient. The systems need to be able to acquire, store and present medical images, based on the patient’s clinical history, the clinician’s workflow, and the provider’s specialty.

The aim of the partnership agreement between Logicalis (New York, NY, USA) and Ascendian (Roseville, CA, USA) is to build systems that can acquire, store and present the information that clinicians need. The two companies aim to focus on enterprise medical imaging services such as HIT strategic implementation planning, Health Information Exchange (HIE), health data management and analytics, and enterprise radiation dose consulting.

Currently, high volumes of clinical images acquired by a wide range of modalities are often shared among different specialties, with insufficient structure and information security. When such diagnostic images are captured in a patient's Electronic Health Record (EHR), the clinicians cannot easily find or access them.

Shawn McKenzie, president and CEO of Ascendian, said "To healthcare CIOs, medical imaging is just something that should work. It's not something the IT team wants to deal with because it's complex and requires an array of specialized skill sets. This isn't just about radiology or cardiology—imaging is about anything that produces a diagnostic object which means the amount of images being collected is staggering. Savvy healthcare CIOs know they're going to be held accountable for managing this mountain of information, and many have begun to recognize the pain points—they've seen the writing on the proverbial hospital wall. This is real. Medical imaging is the next big summit that healthcare IT professionals will absolutely have to scale, and it's not something they can afford to overlook any longer."

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