Ascent Solutions, a Technology Consulting Firm based in downtown Fort Lauderdale, has emerged in recent years as one of South Floridas leading IT Consulting Firms within the Healthcare Sector. Founded in 2003, Ascent Solutions has been providing a full suite of Technology Consulting support to mid-sized through Fortune 100 firms in Florida, including ERP/CRM solutions and support, Microsoft Desktop, Enterprise, Development support, and IT Audit (including Sarbanes Oxley) consulting services. Few of Ascent Solutions service offerings have been more successful and well received than its Health Care Technology suite of services and support.
At a large Dade County Regional Hospital, Ascent Solutions has been providing top tier IT support across many key areas. The greatest contribution to them has been providing a consistently high caliber of Microsoft Desktop and Enterprise consulting support across their facilities in Dade County. Ascent Solutions also supports the hospital in providing consulting services in the areas of IT Security and Compliance, Documentation and Analysis, IT Project Leadership, and Clinical Systems Support (see below for specifics in each area). This five-year partnership has helped to establish Ascent Solutions as one of the most capable and knowledge-rich IT consulting firms within the Clinical sector. Business Analyst: Provides hands on desktop user support to over 4,000 users in multiple facilities, including critical care facilities, Corporate, and regional hospitals. Areas of support include Windows XP,Vista, Active Directory, Office XP Professional, and Windows 2003/2005 Server. Support issues vary from first level application and hardware issues through advanced troubleshooting on network and operating systems. Security Analyst: Works under hospital guidelines to maintain and support existing desktop, OS and network security procedures and standards. Responsibilities include assigning user rights and privileges, monitoring network access, and upgrading/updating security procedures, standards and user rights as directed. Business Technology Consultant: Provides Technical Lead level leadership and support to various clinical IT teams. Working within all departments, including Patient Accounting, Radiology, Pharmacy, ER, Patient Processing and others. BTCs function as hands on managers to keep teams on track to meet project benchmarks and deadlines, as well as providing advanced troubleshooting and support for issues which team members cannot resolve. The rising demand for clinical IT expertise is increasing as with the challenges that hospitals and the healthcare industry are facing with HIPPA, disaster recovery, contingency planning and constantly evolving technology. Ascent Solutions, specializing in solving IT challenges facing the healthcare industry in Florida, can provide a broad range of cost effective expertise to Clients, including Cerner, Siemens, IDX, GE Centricity, McKesson, Openlink, Lawson, and Microsoft, among others. The management team of Ascent Solutions has a combined forty years experience in providing cost effective solutions to South Floridas best Companies and Health Care facilities.
