Precyse Solutions, which specializes in health information management, and M*Modal, which develops speech understanding and natural language processing (NLP) technologies, have joined with Geisinger Health System for a first-of-its-kind partnership to improve clinical documentation and coding accuracy.
 
Precyse’s automated, clinical documentation and coding software features an ICD-10-ready, NLP-assisted coding engine driven by NLP technology from M*Modal, that processes and understands human voice, converting it to text and transforming it into information.

This NLP-enabled, automated coding technology bridges Geisinger’s electronic health record, dictation, transcription, coding and clinical documentation improvement processes by capturing physician dictation, editing it, coding it and directing it into Geisinger’s EHR software platform.

Geisinger physicians will be able to dictate directly into the EHR with minimal impact to their current 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. The technology will also accelerate an organization’s attainment of HITECH meaningful use, according to company executives.

The Precyse, M*Modal and Geisinger partnership will redesign revenue cycle workflow and will enhance coding efficiency while enabling fast and efficient responsiveness to physician queries. The partners aim to see this collaborative technology replicated across the country.

The solution provides a snapshot of all necessary management, resource, and reporting tools for mission-critical health information management processes on one platform, easily monitored and managed through an easy-to-follow dashboard.

“Geisinger is eager to work with Precyse Solutions and M*Modal to innovate an enterprise-wide solution to physician documentation in the EHR, creating vast opportunities for improvement across the documentation continuum,” said Joan Topper, vice president, IT Optimization at Geisinger Health System.
 
“Precyse is committed to finding newer and better ways to capture and format the clinical narrative to maintain health data integrity, drive EHR adoption and enable meaningful use compliance for our clients.” said Jeffrey Levitt, CEO and founder of Precyse Solutions. “The reality today is that EHR implementation, adoption, and attaining meaningful use are major challenges for healthcare facilities and clinicians. Together with M*Modal, Precyse accepts physician affinity for dictation and transcription while meeting the facility’s objectives for improved healthcare delivery and superior information management.”