Compressus Names Joe Lavelle as COO

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Compressus, a medical software company offering a proven interoperability and workflow platform to the rapidly growing healthcare IT market, announced that Joe Lavelle is joining the company as Chief Operations Officer.  

Lavelle has worked in the healthcare industry for nearly 20 years in management consulting and information technology creating innovative services and solutions to improve adoption, return on investment and satisfaction of healthcare information systems.  Lavelle's experience at industry leading consulting firms (Cap Gemini, Accenture, First Consulting Group) has given him unprecedented access and insights into the strategic needs of healthcare systems.  He has a track record of building teams to create and deliver solutions for those needs with maximum return on investment.  Lavelle is also a career coach, published author and blogger, and social media expert who has been dedicated to increasing the career growth and opportunities for his teams, customers and clients.

"We are very excited to have Joe join Compressus," says John Macfarlane, CEO of Compressus. "Joe's diverse talents and deep healthcare IT and operational experience will be invaluable to our team as we deliver the MEDxConnect4 to our customers. MEDxConnect4 is arguably the only clinical workflow solution that transcends the geographic, financial, and systematic barriers of the virtual healthcare enterprise to provide unprecedented flexibility and efficiency with improved patient care.  I know that Joe will make an exceptional contribution to the success of our customers and our team and I could not be more pleased to welcome him to Compressus." 

Designed to improve physician productivity, reduce Enterprise expansion costs and improve patient care and safety, the MEDxConnect System supports best of breed subspecialty solutions and worklist customization. Using a vendor-neutral, highly scalable architecture, healthcare providers in virtually any department or subspecialty can access all of the patient information they need to make accurate diagnoses, including medical records, images, lab results, medications and more -  from anywhere in the Enterprise - using a single worklist. The worklist shows and sorts orders according to priority, modality and other search criteria, enabling users to customize workflow and improve efficiency. It includes all relevant patient and order information, such as electronic notes and scanned documents, as well as prior studies and reports for comparison. The solution also enables workload balancing, allocating studies among available physicians according to user-defined rules, such as body part, modality, exam status or time.

About Compressus Inc.
Established in 2000, Compressus Inc. (www.compressus.com) is a medical software company offering a proven interoperability and workflow platform to the rapidly growing healthcare IT market. Its MEDxConnect software is the first solution that indexes, integrates and routes all relevant patient medical information to the healthcare professional in real time, thus dramatically improving physician efficiency, reducing enterprise costs and increasing patient safety. The solution's workflow flexibility enables users to rapidly accommodate new environments, markets and regulations. The MEDxConnect products address the problems associated with integrating healthcare enterprises plagued by the challenges of workflow, and a lack of connectivity and interoperability between disparate islands of data in all specialties of medicine. The MEDxConnect System is a suite of offerings designed to manage the medical imaging workflow of a healthcare enterprise. It has the power to connect disparate systems and provide automated interoperability to the enterprise and allows an organization with disparate multi- vendor systems to function as one virtual enterprise.

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