Nuance and Coordinated Care of Oklahoma Make Image Awareness a Reality for Healthcare Information Exchanges
November 28 2016 - 8:00AM
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Cloud-Based PowerShare Network Advances
Interoperability and Easy Exchange of Medical Images and Reports
across Regions
Nuance Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:NUAN) today announced
that it has enhanced its PowerShare Network capabilities in
collaboration with Coordinated Care of Oklahoma (CCO) to make image
awareness in Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) now a reality. CCO
is the leading health information network of hospitals, health
systems and physicians in Oklahoma.
This evolution in HIE interoperability provides full access to
and the seamless exchange of digital medical images and reports
through the cloud plus real time awareness of patient’s prior
medical images at the point of care. Nuance PowerShare for HIE
provides clinicians with intelligent access to consolidated patient
imaging records across systems and facilities in a way that
immediately becomes actionable. This delivers clinical and patient
advantages, and adds sustainability and profitability where HIEs
have struggled in the past.
“We went looking for data and image liquidity across our HIE and
took a real world, nuts and bolts approach that we know will work,
will be familiar to users and drive immediate value," said Dr.
Brian Yeaman, chief administrative officer, CCO. “We looked to
DICOM standards and the cloud as the most logical way forward.
Since DICOM standards are the way all PACS systems currently handle
images, it made sense to leverage it as a basis for this new
evolution in HIE interoperability. To move images from one facility
to the next, it's important to do more than just move pieces of the
image, and Nuance PowerShare provided a solution that is awesome
with full access to records through the cloud.”
The new PowerShare Network for HIE will improve the provider
experience with an easy approach to cross regional HIE
interoperability, which was difficult to achieve in the past.
Connecting through PowerShare will enable a smarter, more proactive
approach to patient matching between providers where patient data
is retrieved and aggregated before a physician has to even ask for
it. This cloud-based approach eliminates high costs, duplication of
image storage and searching for patient records that may be stored
in disparate systems or sites. CCO is deploying Nuance PowerShare
for HIE to connect 10 facilities to start and will integrate this
approach into an existing Cerner HIE environment. CCO is also
driving a new and more profitable business model by delivering this
value-added service to all of its members.
“We are focused on delivering value to our clients, our
providers and to our members in terms of reimbursement, and quality
of services in a network. Nuance solved our problem because today
we are able to exchange images across different PACS systems inside
of one health system, as well as across multiple health systems,
bringing that patient data including medical images and reports at
the point of care,” adds Dr. Yeaman.
Nuance PowerShare for HIE will be demonstrated at the
Radiological Society of North America Scientific Assembly and
Annual Meeting (RSNA16), November 28-30 in Nuance booth #2700.
PowerShare for HIE is available today, and more information is
available by calling 1-844-835-6211.
Nuance provides intelligent systems that support a more natural
and insightful approach to clinical documentation, freeing
clinicians to spend more time caring for patients. Nuance
healthcare solutions capture, improve and communicate more than 300
million patient stories each year helping more than 500,000
clinicians in 10,000 global healthcare organizations to drive
meaningful clinical and financial outcomes. Nuance’s award-winning
clinical speech recognition, medical transcription, CDI, coding,
quality and medical imaging solutions provide a more complete and
accurate view of patient 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.
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