Nuance Introduces Dragon Medical Advisor, Computer-Assisted Physician Documentation (CAPD) for ICD-10
September 28 2015 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Delivering Next-Generation CAPD with Real-Time
Advice to Help Physicians Document the Most Complete and Accurate
Patient Story for ICD-10 Compliance, Medical Necessity, and
Improved Patient Care
Today, Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) launched
Dragon Medical Advisor, a next generation Computer-Assisted
Physician Documentation (CAPD) solution that automatically provides
real-time quality feedback to physicians while they are documenting
patient encounters. This improves the completeness of clinical
notes and helps provider organizations meet the impending ICD-10
requirements, justify medical necessity of care decisions, and
support better patient care.
Building on the work done in 2011 when Nuance pioneered the
industry’s first CAPD solution, Dragon Medical Advisor processes
physician notes using any input method – speech or keyboard –
analyzes the structured and unstructured documentation within the
notes, and automatically provides physicians with clinical
documentation improvement (CDI) recommendations based on industry
best practices and guidelines.
Cloud-based CDI Advice
Dragon Medical Advisor is a cloud-based solution that leverages
the patented Nuance Clinical Language Understanding (CLU)
technology. It can be rapidly deployed across any size healthcare
enterprise and any electronic health record (EHR) to help
physicians create high-quality documentation at the point of care,
resulting in a more complete, compliant, and accurate description
of the patient story. Designed for both inpatient and ambulatory
settings, Dragon Medical Advisor automatically recognizes when
incomplete or unspecific information is entered and provides
relevant advice on how to improve the quality of the note. The
result is a more comprehensive picture of the patient’s condition,
improved efficiency of staff, a reduction in discharged but not
final billed (DFNB) charts, and more appropriate reimbursement.
“Building on Nuance’s extensive work with virtual assistants,
Dragon Medical Advisor functions like a specialized medical virtual
assistant for physicians,” explains Joe Petro, senior vice
president of Healthcare Research and Development, Nuance
Communications. “It provides immediate feedback during clinical
documentation and focuses on high-impact areas, such as congestive
heart failure, where the lack of required specificity can
negatively affect patient care, as well as coding and risk
adjustment.”
Query Relief for Physicians
A recent study found clinicians spend approximately 69 minutes
per day searching for information requested by someone else. By
providing instant feedback while the patient story is still fresh
in the mind of the physician, Dragon Medical Advisor improves
productivity by reducing time-consuming and workflow-disrupting
retrospective CDI queries needed to provide information required by
current regulations such as ICD-10.
“Dragon Medical Advisor is a win for physicians because it
provides immediate feedback on what to improve in clinical notes
while they are still thinking about the patient instead of querying
physicians to fix records for patients seen hours or days before,”
said Rizwan Pasha, MD, practicing ED physician at Kettering Health
and Co-Founder of Physician Technology Partners. “This real-time
guidance is also a win for organizations that need CDI starting
with physician documentation to achieve the appropriate level of
reimbursement without disrupting clinical care.”
Availability
Dragon Medical Advisor is available today. For a glimpse of the
Dragon Medical Advisor, please join our breakfast on Tuesday,
September 29, stop by to see a demo or visit nuance.com. For the
full list of the Nuance sessions at AHIMA, please visit:
events.nuance.com/AHIMA2015Presenters.
About Nuance Communications, Inc.
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the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the
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