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| GE Healthcare Joins Forces with M*Modal to Deliver Next Generation of Radiology Reporting Technology
Embedding unique speech understanding technology into the market leading RIS system provides more comprehensive and accurate digital reporting in less time | |||
| 15 May 2008
, Seattle
: GE Healthcare IT, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) and a leading provider of clinical, financial and administrative information technology solutions, today announced a partnership agreement with M*Modal, a leading provider of advanced speech understanding solutions, to deliver the next generation of radiology reporting technology. The announcement was made at the 2008 Annual Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) Conference being held May 15-18 in Seattle, WA. With the aim to transition the industry from speech recognition to speech understanding, the agreement will incorporate M*Modal’s advanced speech technology, AnyModal™ Conversational Documentation Services (CDS), as part of GE’s Centricity RIS-IC Reporting module. The solution will aim to benefit physicians and radiologists with higher process efficiency, more accurate clinical documentation and dictation without changes in workflow. In addition, the technology is designed to continually learn, so the more it is used, the more accurate it becomes. “M*Modal’s unique speech understanding solution, AnyModal CDS, offers a unique combination of speech recognition and natural language understanding that captures a physician's meaning, transforming spoken dictation into accurate, complete, and meaningful healthcare documentation,” said Don Woodlock, Vice President and General Manager, GE Healthcare IT. “That advanced speech understanding capability embedded in GE Healthcare’s Centricity Imaging RIS-IC radiology information system makes this a winning combination for both companies – but most of all, for physicians and their patients.” "Our partnership with a market leader like GE Healthcare accelerates the adoption of directly capturing structured and encoded data from Radiology reporting by making speech an integral part of the radiology workflow. At every step of the radiology process, physicians and hospitals capture rich patient data, because our speech understanding technology is embedded in Centricity RIS-IC,” said Michael Finke, CEO of M*Modal. “Ultimately, the ability to share highly accurate, structured, encoded clinical documents improves the efficiency of healthcare providers, and better information drives improved patient care,” he concludes. By combining AnyModal CDS within Centricity RIS-IC, physicians will now be able to dictate without any change in workflow. The patented speech understanding services transform the spoken dictation into a draft report, automatically structured and encoded according to the healthcare provider's documentation rules. Documents are generated in a semantically interoperable HL7 CDA format to allow for streamlined report sharing between practitioners and facilities. Centricity RIS-IC is a powerful Radiology workflow application that provides a broad spectrum of capabilities for managing the administrative and clinical requirements of a radiology department. Its rich feature set is designed to increase overall productivity while enhancing clinical staff’s ability to deliver excellence in patient care. Features include rules-based multi-organizational scheduling, patient and image tracking, document management, an integrated mammography administration module, multiple diagnostic reporting options, outcome monitoring, and robust interface capabilities. Data analysis and reporting capabilities facilitate operational improvements and decision-making. Centricity RIS-IC is designed to deliver fast, secure access to information that can shorten the revenue cycle, reduce lost charges and denials, prevent underpayments, and optimize performance across the enterprise. The platform-independent web architecture provides an open gateway to multiple desktop operating systems. ABOUT M*MODAL M*Modal, based in Pittsburgh, PA, offers on-demand conversational documentation services that help healthcare providers capture discrete clinical information from dictation to generate complete and timely electronic medical records. The company's unique speech recognition and understanding technology platform, AnyModal CDS, is a vital tool that empowers physicians to capture clinical facts and orders from dictation without requiring any change to their normal dictation routine. M*Modal's focus is on providing hospitals, healthcare IT vendors, and medical transcription service providers with the industry's most comprehensive yet most adaptable solution for creating highly accurate, structured, encoded, and shareable medical documents to increase patient safety, promote continuity of patient care, and reduce cost. For more information on M*Modal, visit its Web site at: www.mmodal.com ABOUT GE HEALTHCARE GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat, and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest. GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases, and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection, and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17- billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our Web site at www.gehealthcare.com. |
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