Precyse details the positive results of several hospitals that have implemented Precyse’s ICD-10 computer-assisted coding platform with Natural Language Comprehension regardless of the delays of the mandated ICD-10 compliance deadline. Baptist Health System, St. Luke’s Health System, Geisinger Health System, Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, and Piedmont Healthcare are just a few of the customers who have realized significantly-improved revenue cycle workflow, coding accuracy, and clinical documentation.

Innovative hospital systems report measurable improvements after adopting integrated HIM and coding automation platform—and plan to proceed apace regardless of the ICD-10 deadline; The Advisory Board issues review of precyseCode one year after debut at HIMSS 2011

LAS VEGAS, February 21, 2012—Precyse, a leader in health information management (HIM) technologies and services, announced at the HIMSS 2012 Annual Conference and Exposition that the first wave of precyseCode™ adopters already are reporting measurable improvements in revenue cycle workflow, coding accuracy, and clinical documentation. In the past year, healthcare providers adopting Precyse’s integrated health information management (HIM) and computer-assisted coding platform include Birmingham, Ala.–based Baptist Health System, St. Luke’s Health System in Kansas City, Mo., Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pa., Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, Sarasota, Fla., and Atlanta, Ga.–based Piedmont Healthcare.

“Using precyseCode, we’ve seen a significant improvement in our coding department’s quality, productivity and accuracy,” said Chloe Phillips, corporate director of HIM, Baptist Health System, which implemented precyseCode while Precyse’s services team supported its transition from on-site to remotely based coders. “We’ve set up a wonderful information-sharing structure, allowing the coders to exchange ideas and best practices, which have significantly improved the team’s dynamics. Now, the coders are more engaged and communicative. They solve their problems together and work as a cohesive team. And we can oversee their efforts remotely, so employees don’t feel like we’re looking over their shoulders or micromanaging them.”

With its debut at HIMSS 2011, precyseCode introduced the concept of integrating true computer-assisted and computer-automated coding (CAC) and Natural Language Comprehension™ (NLC) in an intelligent workflow solution, enabling productivity increases of 20–50%. The precyseDashboard™ inherent in precyseCode provides a unified view with widgets showing impacts on productivity, workflow, resources, and savings.

“PrecyseCode uses our NLC engine to create the patient’s clinical story, allowing for the assignment of appropriate, compliant ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes, as well as supporting SNOMED clinical terminology,” said Ken Lacy, president and general manager, Precyse Advanced Technologies. “PrecyseCode streamlines workflow by automating data collection and intelligently assigning charts to coders, and it integrates other capabilities including physician query, rules-based pre-billing quality assurance, and clinical documentation improvement. Moreover, our NLC engine is an adaptive technology that learns from coders’ corrections to improve the accuracy of automated code assignment the next time around.”

Earlier this month, The Advisory Board issued its review of precyseCode, which made its debut a year ago at HIMSS 2011. A hardbound copy of The Advisory Board’s report, PrecyseCode™ – An Emerging Computer Assisted Coding Solution, is available at Precyse’s HIMSS Booth #8116. Precyse also has copies available of a white paper by former AHIMA CEO Linda L. Kloss, RHIA, now principal of Kloss Strategic Advisors, Ltd., titled Health Information Management in 2016: The HIM industry’s transformative journey to enterprise information management – what does the HIM Department of the future look like?

In the wake of last week’s Health and Human Services announcement of a potential delay to the October 2013 ICD-10 deadline, precyseCode users have emphatically reaffirmed their commitment to CAC, ICD-10 education and other innovations supported by Precyse technologies and services.

“It’s full steam ahead as far as our customers are concerned,” commented Chris Powell, president, Precyse, noting that he spoke with several Precyse clients prior to attending HIMSS this week. “Clearly, ICD-10 compliance is a benefit, but not a driver, of our customers’ efforts to automate their coding workflow and accelerate their revenue cycle.”

About Baptist Health System

Baptist Health System, Inc., is one of the largest health care systems in Alabama and one of the state’s largest employers. BHS is a not-for-profit, 501(c) corporation that owns and manages four hospitals in the state of Alabama. Baptist Health System was founded in Birmingham in 1922 by a group of Baptist congregations. It is a ministry of the churches of the Birmingham Baptist Association whose representatives elect the Board of Trustees. For more information, please visit www.bhsala.com.

About Precyse

Precyse provides industry-leading expert services and comprehensive technologies that empower healthcare organizations to most effectively and efficiently capture, organize, secure and analyze clinical data and transform it into actionable information, supporting the delivery of quality patient care and optimizing operating performance. Precyse has enabled 1,000 hospitals and health systems nationwide to improve efficiency and deliver tangible outcomes for more than a decade. With products ranging from an integrated transcription and coding platform with advanced speech recognition, expert workflow technologies and Natural Language Comprehension™ to HIM consulting and services, Precyse’s flexible software can be delivered standalone or complemented by a professional staff of more than 1,200 experts. Now more than ever, hospitals and health systems are challenged to achieve meaningful use of the legal health record. Precyse is the partner hospitals across the country choose to achieve this goal. To learn more, visit www.precyse.com.

SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ChartLogic, a leading national provider of EHR systems, today announced Stella, a voice recognition overlay compatible with all leading EHR systems. Utilizing the same type of cloud-based natural language processing (NLP) employed in Apple’s Siri, Stella can greatly speed workflow for physicians by enabling them to use iPads, iPhones and other mobile devices with their hospital’s EHR system.

Stella is being demonstrated at HIMSS 12 at ChartLogic’s booth #14024. Stella is also one of the key technologies selected for use in the Health Story Project, which is located in the HIMSS 12 Interoperability Showcase.

“Stella leverages the speed and ease-of-use of voice dictation, which is preferred by many physicians. Stella allows physicians to dictate, type, or touch (iPad) to review and create clinical documentation. While including a dictation option, it goes much further, using NLP to understand medical terminology and voice commands,” said Brad Melis, founder and executive vice president, ChartLogic.

Stella allows physicians to “bring their own device.” Working as an overlay application, it provides access via mobile devices to hospital EHR systems without the need to replace or revamp the current system.

Melis noted that Stella will help medical groups meet the proposed interoperability standards for meaningful use. For example, Stella will facilitate documenting and transmitting clinical care documents because it is the first cloud-based EHR application that natively incorporates the new CDA (common document architecture) Level 2 standard. This helps meet the proposed meaningful use requirement that EHRs have the capability of producing human readable (and computable) documents.

ChartLogic

Founded in 1994, serves more than 2,000 physicians nationwide. ChartLogic EHR is certified for meaningful use and more than 200 ChartLogic customers have qualified for incentive payments. ChartLogic’s EHR suite includes electronic medical records, a patient portal, medical billing software, document management and interactive patient education. For more information, visit www.chartlogic.com.

Precyse (Wayne, PA and Alpharetta, GA) has announced the General Availability of PrecyseCode™, its revolutionary intelligent workflow solution for health information management. Now commercially available, the precyseCode software features Computer-Assisted Coding (CAC) that uses unique Natural Language Comprehension™ (NLC) to create a patient’s clinical story, allowing for the assignment of appropriate, compliant ICD-9 and ICD-10 diagnosis codes, procedure codes and SNOMED clinical terminology. It has already proven to accelerate hospital and health system revenue cycles by minimize coding backlogs, facility Discharged Not Final Billed (DNFB) levels, audit exposure and denied claims. PrecyseCode turbo charges productivity and results, positively impacting the bottom line.

While accurate and efficient coding may be at the heart of the overwhelming challenges facing healthcare providers today, automated systems that merely provide ‘coding-only’ solutions will not suffice. PrecyseCode represents an automated coding solution that goes beyond coding to unify and optimize the entire workflow process, from physicians to coders to clinical staff and to management. Precyse has already seen 20% increases in coder productivity with precyseCode, and expects that figure to climb as high as 50% as the system ‘learns’ from its earlier coding assignments.

PrecyseCode™ Improves Coding Quality and Productivity, Enabling Providers to Accelerate Meaningful Use of the Electronic Health Record and Prepare for ICD-10

Wayne, Pa. and Alpharetta, Ga., May 03, 2011—Precyse, a leader in health information management (HIM) services and technologies, announces the general availability of precyseCode™, the most advanced and comprehensive health information management platform available today. PrecyseCode is driven by state-of-the-art technologies that understand and process human voice, converting it to text and transforming it to information. Now commercially available, the precyseCode software features Computer-Assisted Coding that uses unique Natural Language Comprehension™ (NLC) to create a patient’s clinical story, allowing for the assignment of appropriate, compliant ICD-9 and ICD-10 diagnosis codes, procedure codes and SNOMED clinical terminology.

NLC is achieved through the unique combination of M*Modal’s contextual understanding technology with Precyse’s collaborative technology platform and extensive coding and clinical documentation expertise.  PrecyseCode is the industry’s first computer-assisted and NLC-driven intelligent workflow solution. This powerful combination provides a single, comprehensive platform to optimize coding processes, accelerate revenue cycles, and support healthcare organizations as they navigate through compliance challenges, Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) initiatives, migrate to ICD-10, and meet health reform and Meaningful Use initiatives head on.

“While accurate and efficient coding may be at the heart of the overwhelming challenges facing healthcare providers today, automated systems that merely provide ‘coding-only’ solutions will not suffice,” said Ken Lacy, President and General Manager of Precyse Advanced Technologies, the R&D division of Precyse. “precyseCode represents an automated coding solution that goes beyond coding to unify and optimize the entire workflow process, from physicians to coders to clinical staff and to management. We’ve already seen 20% increases in coder productivity with precyseCode, and we expect that figure to climb as high as 50% as the system ‘learns’ from its earlier coding assignments.”

Lacy added, “Rather than reengineering existing automated systems to adapt to the changing healthcare environment, our goal was to develop a ‘from the ground up’ solution that would meet all of the current and future needs of healthcare providers. We carefully analyzed all of the various user needs and built solutions for them into precyseCode. We are extremely pleased with the result, and believe that it is the type of single solution that providers will need to be successful in the future.”

A key feature of precyseCode is its NLC capability, which reads both structured and unstructured data and reorganizes it into better, more understandable information that supports powerful capture and interpretation of clinical findings. This episode-specific patient narrative is then electronically tagged to be easily searched, mined and analyzed. Combined with NLC, real-time dashboards provide a unified view for everyone involved in the documentation workflow process. And since precyseCode already includes SNOMED (Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine) and ICD-10 codes, it allows coders to begin learning ICD-10 immediately, offsetting any anticipated declines in productivity and assuring a smooth transition in October 2013.

Lacy also noted that precyseCode offers healthcare providers a means of reducing costs and finding new sources of revenue. “The product has been proven to minimize coding backlogs, facility DNFB levels, RAC exposure and denied claims and to accelerate revenue cycles,” he said. “By allowing and processing physician queries directly in the system, it allows clinical documentation that more accurately describes the level of care provided. And by making coders more productive, it reduces the need for outside contract staffing resources to accommodate overflow.”

PrecyseCode is already achieving noteworthy results in various healthcare organizations around the nation. For example, Precyse and M*Modal have partnered with Geisinger Health System to put precyseCode’s ICD-10-ready automated clinical documentation and NLC coding software to work.  At Geisinger, the software will bridge medical dictation, transcription, coding and clinical documentation improvement (CDI) processes by capturing physician dictation, editing it, coding it and directing it into electronic health record (EHR) software platform. Based in Danville, Pa., Geisinger Health System is widely recognized for its implementation of innovative care models and deployment of state of the art technologies. Using precyseCode, Geisinger physicians can dictate directly into the EHR with minimal impact to their workflow patterns. Clinical information is electronically tagged to be easily searched, mined and analyzed by healthcare team members responsible for driving hospital care and outcomes. Geisinger and Precyse aim to see this collaborative technology replicated across the country.

“Our main goals are to optimize the coding process, improve workflow and accelerate ICD-10 transition,” said Joan Topper, Vice President, IT Optimization, Geisinger Health System. “The management and coding teams at Geisinger are already seeing early improvements in both productivity and workflow, and I’m confident that this trend will continue as we go forward.  We are all very excited to use one system that meets all of our facility and professional coding needs.”

The Baptist Health System (BHS) in Birmingham, Ala., also uses precyseCode to resolve a variety of challenges in its centralized coding department that supports four acute care hospital operations.  According to Chloe Phillips, Corporate Director of HIM, BHS, “precyseCode technologies have simplified processes and streamlined our workflow. It has been instrumental in increasing productivity, accuracy and quality, while accelerating our revenue cycle and significantly reducing costs.”

About Precyse Advanced Technologies

Precyse Advanced Technologies (PAT) is the R&D division of Precyse. Software products built by PAT were designed to accelerate the capture and utilization of the patient story and advance the transformation of clinical data into meaningful health information. These products accelerate hospital and health system revenue cycles with precyseCode™, the most comprehensive, intelligent workflow and collaboration solution available today. With its proprietary Natural Language Comprehension™, Computer-Assisted Coding and robust content knowledge, precyseCode has been engineered to deliver greater coding speed and productivity, and lead the healthcare industry through the migration to ICD-10 and the costly, time time-consuming process of improving clinical documentation. This flexible software solution can be delivered standalone or complemented by a professional staff of more than 1,200 experts. Precyse Advanced Technologies is an affiliate of Precyse, sparking operational excellence and superior financial performance for more than 850 hospitals and health systems nationwide. Now in its twelfth year, Precyse continues to lead the industry with its Transcription, Coding, Health Information Management, Oncology Data Management and Clinical Documentation Improvement services. To learn more, visit www.precyse.com

About M*Modal

M*Modal, the market leader in advanced Speech Understanding™ technology, combines industry leading technology and clinical documentation services to produce highly accurate, structured, encoded and shareable medical documents to facilitate the use and adoptability of electronic health records. More than 800 healthcare organizations nationwide utilize M*Modal’s solutions to increase patient safety and promote continuity of patient care. For more information, please visit www.mmodal.com.

About Precyse

Precyse provides industry leading expert services and comprehensive technologies that empower healthcare organizations to most effectively and efficiently capture, organize, secure and analyze clinical data and transform it into actionable information, supporting the delivery of quality patient care and optimizing operating performance. Precyse has enabled more than 850 hospitals and health systems nationwide to improve efficiency and deliver tangible outcomes for more than a decade. With products ranging from an integrated transcription and coding platform with advanced speech recognition, expert workflow technologies and Natural Language Comprehension™ to HIM consulting and services, Precyse’s flexible software can be delivered standalone or complemented by a professional staff of more than 1,200 experts. Now more than ever, hospitals and health systems are challenged to achieve meaningful use of the legal health record. Precyse is the partner hospitals across the country choose to achieve this goal. To learn more, visit www.precyse.com.

M*Modal and WebChartMD today announced the completion of M*Modal’s Speech Understanding technology integration into the WebChartMD platform. The announcement is made in conjunction with the Clinical Documentation Industry Association (CDIA) Annual Conference in Charlotte, NC.

M*Modal’s Speech Understanding Brings Powerful Productivity Capabilities to WebChartMD Customers

Pittsburgh, PA and Johnson City, TN— April 13, 2011 — (CDIA Booths 100 and 101)  M*Modal, the industry leader in advanced Speech Understanding™ technology, and WebChartMD, an advanced web-based application used by thousands of healthcare professionals nationwide for the creation and management of clinical documentation, today announced the completion of M*Modal’s Speech Understanding technology integration into the WebChartMD platform.  M*Modal’s speech understanding technology, now part of WebChartMD’s robust transcription workflow platform, is already being adopted by the almost 100 medical transcription service organizations currently using the WebChartMD platform.  The announcement is made in conjunction with the Clinical Documentation Industry Association (CDIA) Annual Conference in Charlotte, NC.

As an advanced application service provider that works with hospitals, clinics and transcription companies, WebChartMD utilizes M*Modal’s Speech Understanding platform to provide an integrated back-end speech solution for its clients who need to drive efficiencies by turning transcriptionists into highly productive editors.  This move reflects WebChartMD’s strategy of incorporating advanced technologies into its end-to-end workflow system, and the selection of M*Modal brings a proven platform relied on extensively by most of the leading MTSO’s in the industry.

“We are always looking for technologies that will enable our clients to cut costs, grow their businesses, and help provide better healthcare to their patients,” said Mark Christensen, Manager, Business Development, WebChartMD. “M*Modal’s  Speech Understanding solution has a clear record of success in helping its customers deliver on these goals, making it our optimal choice.”

“The technology bar is being raised continually for clinical documentation platforms as MTSOs and other users demand more productivity and intelligence from their narrative documentation,” said Michael Finke, CEO, M*Modal. “We are thrilled that this partnership brings together two technology leaders committed to staying ahead of those growing customer requirements.”

M*Modal works with a wide variety of clinical documentation, RIS/PACS, EHR, and other software and service partners who leverage the company’s unique Speech Understanding platform.

About WebChartMD
WebChartMD is one of the newest and most technologically advanced application service providers in the healthcare industry. WebChartMD was written with entirely new code from cutting edge software advances like Microsoft .Net 3.5, Ajax user interface code and Asterisk open source telephony software. Commercially launched in January 2007, WebChartMD has grown an average of 15% per month, and today has over 5,000 daily users on the system. WebChartMD is based in Johnson City, Tennessee, and currently has 12 full-time employees.

About M*Modal
M*Modal, the market leader in advanced Speech Understanding™ technology, combines industry leading technology and clinical documentation services to produce highly accurate, structured, encoded and shareable medical documents to facilitate the use and adoptability of electronic health records. More than 800 healthcare organizations nationwide utilize M*Modal’s solutions to increase patient safety and promote continuity of patient care. For more information, please visit www.mmodal.com.

Students Go Hands-On with Advanced Speech Recognition Software at Same Great Price, Prep for New Clinical Documentation Careers.

Fairlawn, OH (December 9, 2010) – MTEC, the leading online Medical Transcription
and Editing training program, proudly announces the January 2011 release of
its NexGen Speech Recognition Editing and Medical Transcription Program. In
response to industry demands for greater clinical documentation expertise, MTEC is
moving their curriculum to the next level. The new NexGen program is the first step in
this important industry migration and is being provided to students at the same price
as current curriculum.

“Many online programs lack the essential component of hands-on, real-world
technology experience,” mentions Sean Carroll, CEO of MTEC. The NexGen
program integrates industry-leading speech recognition software into existing,
online curriculum. “Research with our employers indicates these skills are the
very foundation to a future in the field of clinical documentation and key to student
success in live, production environments,” Carroll adds.

“Our graduates already have the highest satisfaction level in the industry, and now
they will get the technology foundation to expand their skill set and prepare them for
the changing world of clinical documentation,” mentions Kim Buchanan, CMT, AHDI-
F, Director of Education for MTEC.

The new NexGen program provides a seat license for the speech-enabled Fuzion™
medical training platform, the RMT credentialing exam as the final exam; as well
as, mobile learning capabilities with all electronic books. MTEC also prepares their
students for the new healthcare environment by orienting them to the Electronic
Health Record (EHR) as well as educating them on HIPAA standards and information
privacy and security compliance.

About MTEC

The Medical Transcription Education Center (MTEC) was developed and founded in
1996 and is the first school to be approved by the Approval Committee for Certificate
Program (ACCP), a joint committee established by AHDI and AHIMA for certifying
and approving medical transcription education programs. MTEC’s academic purpose
is to prepare students for productive careers in the dynamic, ever-changing, and
challenging medical transcription and editing profession. MTEC is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Webmedx. MTEC is approved by the State of Ohio Board of Career
Colleges and Schools, Certificate #08-11-1886T.