Nuance, MEDITECH, IMO Collaboration to Automate Patient Problem Lists and Support Regulatory Reporting
April 13 2015 - 8:03AM
Business Wire
Eases Reporting Burdens on Physicians through
Efficient and Accurate Translation of the Patient
Narrative into Discrete Data for EHRs
Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) announced today a
collaboration with Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO) and MEDITECH
to take rich clinical narratives from physician notes, extract key
facts as structured data and automatically populate patient problem
lists and allergy lists using physician-friendly terminologies to
preserve clinical intent of physician documentation in the EHR.
This unique approach enables healthcare providers to translate
unstructured narrative text into clinically-accurate, discrete data
in the EHR to support patient problem lists for Meaningful Use as
well as requirements for ICD-10 compliance, and quality
reporting.
“This collaboration between Nuance, MEDITECH, and IMO is
exciting because it will make it easier for doctors to efficiently
create accurate, structured patient problem lists in the EHR and to
comply with other documentation requirements that are useful to
their healthcare system. It will allow doctors to stay focused on
their patients and worry less about how to share their
recommendations electronically within their work environment,” says
S. Luke Webster, M.D, vice president & CMIO, CHRISTUS
Health.
This innovative process overcomes common problems physicians
have creating problem lists in the EHR, providing efficiencies and
relief through simply converting narrative created during physician
documentation into real-time, actionable information for medical
decision making:
- Physicians can use Nuance Dragon
Medical 360 real-time speech recognition or a mix of voice
recognition and structured Physician Documentation sections to
create a clinically-rich narrative at the point of care, which
reflects the full patient’s condition.
- Nuance’s Clinical Language
Understanding (CLU) engine analyzes the physician free text
narrative and extracts key patient information, such as patient
problems and allergies in real time as discrete, structured
data.
- IMO®’s (iC) Intelligent Connect
platform automatically maps this to IMO’s terminology libraries,
and to standardized code sets, thus preserving clinical intent
while supporting clinical documentation standards for
interoperability and continuity of care.
- The full patient story is then
available in MEDITECH’s EHR including structured data, unlocked
from previously unstructured patient information, and this can now
be analyzed and used for a variety of reporting and compliance
measures including Meaningful Use, quality management and clinical
decision making.
To learn more about this collaboration, please contact
nuance@e-imo.com and visit Nuance (booth #1831), IMO (booth
#3408) and MEDITECH (booth #6315) at the 2015 Health Information
Management Systems Society (HIMSS15) Annual Conference in Chicago
April 13-16. Nuance, IMO and MEDITECH will be launching an early
adopter program to test this with healthcare providers.
Partner Quotes:
- "MEDITECH is thrilled to collaborate
with Nuance and IMO to give physicians the best possible
documentation experience," says Helen Waters, MEDITECH vice
president of sales and marketing. "Thanks to this fact extraction
process, physicians can capture actionable clinical data, such as
patient problems and allergies without changing workflow or taking
any additional steps, further supporting our customers’ ability to
meet Meaningful Use and ICD-10 mandates, improve analytics, and
ultimately better the entire patient experience, including patient
outcomes."
- Frank Naeymi-Rad, Ph.D., chairman and
CEO of IMO said: “This remarkable new solution shows how innovative
thinking and a shared vision can deliver a new generation of
clinical documentation that will allow our vendor-partners and
clinical users to deliver the best patient care possible.”
About IMO
Intelligent Medical Objects, Inc., (IMO) is the developer of the
most widely-accepted medical terminology solution for the
management of medical vocabularies and software applications at
healthcare organizations worldwide. IMO's terminology is used by
more than 3,000 hospitals and 3400,000 physicians daily, and this
trusted terminology platform supports innovations by provider
systems. IMO medical vocabulary and mapping products effectively
capture clinical intent and help EMRs preserve and communicate this
across the entire spectrum of care. IMO clinical terms are mapped
to all standard coding systems including ICD-9, ICD-10 and SNOMED®,
The accuracy of IMO’s interface terminology was found to be ‘nearly
perfect’ in an independent study published by the US Centers for
Disease Control. Read more at www.e-imo.com. Follow @IMOsolutions
on Twitter.
About MEDITECH
Today, more than 2,400 institutions worldwide use MEDITECH’s
fully integrated, interoperable EHR to provide healthcare to the
communities they serve. Their robust, patient-centered technology
spans the healthcare continuum, including unique functional
capacity for the following environments: ambulatory care, acute
care, long-term care, rehabilitation services, behavioral health,
and home health care.
About Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) is a leading provider
of voice and language solutions for businesses and consumers around
the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the
user experience more compelling by transforming the way people
interact with devices and systems. Every day, millions of users and
thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications.
For more information, please visit: www.nuance.com. Connect with
Nuance on social media through the healthcare blog, What’s next, as
well as Twitter and Facebook.
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Nuance Communications, Inc.Ann Joyal,
781-565-4155ann.joyal@nuance.comorIMODavid Haines,
847-272-1242press@e-imo.comorMEDITECHPaul Berthiaume,
781-774-5742pberthiaume@meditech.com
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