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At HIMSS16, the companies will preview Appropriate Use Criteria embedded in PatientKeeper CPOE

LAS VEGAS, NV (March 1, 2016) –HIMSS16 — PatientKeeper®, Inc., a leading provider of healthcare applications for physicians, and National Decision Support Company (NDSC), a globally recognized leader in innovative solutions for integrated guideline delivery, today announced an integration initiative that will enable physicians to access a comprehensive set of imaging Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) as part of their electronic order entry workflow. The companies are previewing NDSC’s ACR Select embedded within PatientKeeper CPOE at HIMSS16. ACR Select contains over 3,000 structured clinical indications and 15,000 clinical end points delivered through a flexible content delivery engine. The delivery of this clinically valuable information from within the PatientKeeper CPOE workflow dramatically enhances the clinical decision and ordering process.

The companies are previewing NDSC’s ACR Select embedded within PatientKeeper CPOE at HIMSS16. ACR Select contains over 3,000 structured clinical indications and 15,000 clinical end points delivered through a flexible content delivery engine. The delivery of this clinically valuable information from within the PatientKeeper CPOE workflow dramatically enhances the clinical decision and ordering process.

“We are pleased to be collaborating with NDSC to offer our physicians an innovative and clinically relevant tool,” Sally Buta, PatientKeeper’s co-founder and senior director of innovation, said. “Once the integration is completed, PatientKeeper CPOE users will be able to utilize the myriad guidelines and applications of NDSC from within their natural ordering workflows.”

“The collaboration with PatientKeeper represents an opportunity for NDSC to expand its market presence and create a practical and valuable solution for physicians,” according to Robert Cooke, vice president of marketing and strategy at NDSC. “The integration with PatientKeeper will enable presentation of actionable guidelines to the provider when needed, and will help guide the provider to the right test by presenting more appropriate or required tests for the patient’s condition,” Cooke said.

“Our efforts are in direct response to our customers’ requests to integrate AUC into provider workflows to meet the provisions of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014. ACR Select is the most comprehensive, qualified set of AUC on the market, and our clients are now prepared to meet these requirements and begin the transition to value based services through guideline delivery, well in advance of the deadline,” Cooke added.

PatientKeeper and NDSC will discuss their initiative and preview their integration at the HIMSS16 conference in Las Vegas, March 1-3. NDSC’s exhibit is in booth 11010; PatientKeeper is in booth 5249.

David Domeshek
PatientKeeper, Inc.
(781) 373-6232

Robert Cooke
NDSC
(203) 918-5085

NDSC Europe GmbH established to support rollout of ESR iGuide

VIENNA, AUSTRIA (February 25, 2016) – Today, National Decision Support Company (NDSC) announced the establishment of its European Headquarters in Vienna, Austria.

Building on the formal announcement of its exclusive relationship with the European Society of Radiology (ESR), NDSC has announced the formation of NDSC Europe GmbH, a dedicated European Headquarters. “There has been a lot of progress over the year and we’re excited to formally announce our dedicated European organization,” said Michael Mardini, CEO, NDSC. “NDSC GmbH will provide sales, contracting and support to the European and Middle East markets to ensure providers can deliver ESR iGuide into their clinical practice through EMR integrations.”

s the exclusive, trusted partner to the European Society of Radiology for the delivery and implementation of ESR iGuide, NDSC Europe GmbH has appointed local resources to adapt the deliverables to European market requirements. “We’re pleased to announce that our European operations will be led by Mr. Marcel Wassink, Managing Director, NDSC Europe GmbH,” said Mardini. “We sought an experienced leader with a proven management track record and the required entrepreneurial spirit to grow the business.” Mr. Wassink has held previous leadership positions for organizations such as Philips Healthcare, Nuance Communications, and has led several startups in the European market.

“I am excited to join NDSC and this is a tremendous opportunity to improve the quality of care across Europe by ensuring patients get the most appropriate imaging test,” said Marcel Wassink, Managing Director, NDSC Europe GmbH. “Working together with the European Society of Radiology is a tremendous honor and at NDSC we recognize our responsibility to represent the ESR through their guidelines.”

Also joining the company is Mr. Florian Demuth who will continue his current assignment in the ESR Department of European and International Affairs and will now support NDSC Europe. He brings a wealth of experience and domain expertise and will act as the liaison between NDSC Europe and the ESR.

“We’ve already made great progress in the European market by leveraging the EMR relationships already established by NDSC and are now building local relationships,” said Mardini. “This dedicated organization will allow us to leverage the depth of NDSC’s experience in the US market, with an approach more suited to the European experience.”

NDSC GmbH will demonstrate ESR iGuide and its latest developments, including integrations with leading EHRs, at ECR 2016, March 2-6, 2016, Vienna, Austria.

New offering delivers Choosing Wisely™ and other guidelines through existing EHR integrations

MADISON, WI (February 23, 2016) – Today, National Decision Support Company (NDSC) announced CareSelect, a new enterprise-wide appropriate use criteria (AUC) and clinical pathway delivery engine integrated with electronic medical records (EMR). “With over 2 million monthly transactions being generated by more than 100 health systems using our flagship solution ACR Select, we have rapidly become the market’s choice to enable the delivery of EMR integrated imaging appropriate use criteria (AUC),” said Michael Mardini, CEO, NDSC. “Through this experience we have also earned the trust of EMR vendors and guideline publishers alike, and due to the rich interoperability we’ve achieved with our EMR partners we have expanded into new clinical areas through CareSelect.”

CareSelect is designed to house and manage both national and local guidelines and enable healthcare organizations to directly manage the delivery and configuration of EMR advisories using the most up to date clinical knowledge—all within the native EMR user interface.

Guidelines are constantly changing and providers are struggling to manage the delivery of all this new medical knowledge to healthcare providers in a meaningful way. Compliance and quality are critical success factors in a value driven healthcare environment and CareSelect enables the delivery of a wide range of medical knowledge to healthcare providers without the need to reconfigure the EMR each time a guideline changes or needs to be added.

Through the company’s work with the American College of Radiology and numerous other imaging criteria sources, NDSC has proven its competence in distilling medical knowledge into actionable criteria. “With CareSelect, we are now applying natural language processing and sophisticated algorithms to the EMR data, enabling high impact advisories across the care continuum,” said Mardini. “These new capabilities also extend the sophistication of the imaging guidelines we can deliver with ACR Select, to include automated indication calculation, and to cover more complex clinical scenarios.”

Through CareSelect, the company is delivering high impact clinical advisories covering a range of medical conditions across the care continuum, such as those from Choosing Wisely, an initiative of the ABIM and theNNT.com that cover a range of care settings and conditions, including anti-biotic stewardship, high cost lab testing and utilization management in the Emergency Department.

NDSC is currently deploying CareSelect at select healthcare organizations and will demonstrate its latest developments, including integrations with leading EHRs, at HIMSS 2016, booth #11010, March 1-3, 2016, Las Vegas, NV.

About National Decision Support Company
National Decision Support Company (NDSC) provides integrated solutions for developing, maintaining, accessing, delivering, and analyzing actionable, standards-based Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) for imaging, lab, and the healthcare enterprise.  Through its flagship solutions, CareSelect and ACR Select, NDSC provides access to nationally recognized clinical content to healthcare providers within their EHR workflow and covers a growing list of high priority healthcare areas, allowing healthcare organizations to leverage the latest evidence-based guidelines to manage utilization and improve quality. The company partners with healthcare provider organizations and national medical societies—including American College of Radiology (ACR), American College of Cardiology (ACC), and European Society of Radiology (ESR)—to structure content and deliver it through physician-centric workflows. NDSC’s clinical solution set provides physicians access to the latest evidence-based approaches to medicine, allows providers to develop and deliver local care pathways and protocols, and lets healthcare organizations continuously analyze the impact that AUC has on care delivery without disrupting the doctor-patient relationship. For more information, visit www.NationalDecisionSupport.com.