Ascentia Reaches New Heights in Cardiovascular Information Management; Heartlab Introduces the First Fully Web-Based Cardiovascular Information System
Heartlab previewed its new Ascentia cardiovascular information system at the 54th Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology. The Ascentia line provides a complete package of the industry’s most advanced multimodality image analysis tools, comprehensive digital reporting, and secure portal access to patient records delivered via a web-based technology that improves access and reduces system administration.
Ascentia Portal revolutionizes the way we think about web-based access to images and information. Using new approaches to system architecture, Portal delivers full diagnostic quality DICOM images to virtually any PC on the inter/intranet. Heartlab’s new compression-on-demand technology delivers over 10 different levels of lossless and lossy compression on the fly directly from the original images in the DICOM archive. Storing additional compressed copies of images has been totally eliminated.
Ascentia WorkStation enables easy access to diagnostic-quality images and robust review tools for multiple cardiology and vascular imaging exams. WorkStation introduces new user-configurable measurement protocols and robust vascular features such as bolus chase reconstruction and remasking.
Ascentia Results Management offers tightly integrated, structured reporting which allows physicians to create reports digitally while reviewing cases on-line. Integrated reporting optimizes workflow, decreases turnaround time of reports, and improves information management. The repository of cardiology image data can be mined quickly and easily, transforming clinical data into meaningful information for statistical analysis, research and presentations.
Also, as a work-in-progress, Heartlab will be showing the Ascentia HeartStation(TM) to handle digital ECG management for electrocardiograms from any vendor’s ECG equipment. With HeartStation, ECG studies are stored, read, interpreted and archived as part of a patient’s web-accessible electronic medical record. The HeartStation combines a dynamic new user interface with the industry’s best image acquisition and analysis algorithms for versatile, vendor-neutral, enterprise-wide ECG management that promotes paperless workflow for cardiology. HeartStation is easy to use, and ensures consistent, host-based interpretation of ECGs, no matter what brand of cart.
“After two years of intense effort, Ascentia is ready for its debut,” states Heartlab CEO Robert Petrocelli. “It is the realization of our vision which began over 10 years ago. Finally, a rich knowledge about the cardiovascular disease state can reach the critical care providers, anywhere, anytime.”
Heartlab’s Ascentia WorkStation, Results Management, and Portal systems received FDA 510(k) clearance on February 18, 2005.
About Heartlab
Founded in 1994, Heartlab is the world’s leading designer and supplier of digital image and information networks for Cardiology. Heartlab’s ENCOMPASS(TM) network gives cardiologists rapid access to imaging exam and report information, enables cardiology centers to operate more efficiently, and provides robust protection for critical patient data. Heartlab’s ENCOMPASS networks are installed in more than 250 of the nation’s leading heart centers. The company’s CardioNow image management solution for clinical trials is used by leading cardiovascular core labs and cardiovascular device and drug companies to expedite the sharing, tracking and analysis of complex cardiac images for over 25 multi-center clinical trials including drug-eluting stent, bare metal stent, as well as distal protection device studies. For more information, visit www.heartlab.com or call (401) 596-0592.
