3M announced a definitive agreement to acquire the technology business of M*Modal, for a total enterprise value of $1 billion dollars. M*Modal is a healthcare technology provider of cloud-based, conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered systems that help physicians efficiently capture and improve the patient narrative so they can spend more time with their patients and provide a higher quality of care.M*Modal Acquisition DetailsAs part of the acquisition, 3M will maintain a strategic
Read More
3M HIS
Chilmark Report: NLP Technology is Poised to Unlock Value of Unstructured Health Data
In the span of 10 years, healthcare organizations (HCOs) have gone from having very little information available for data mining to nearly drowning in vast and complex digital information. Simultaneously, the effort required to enter and clean the data has been unsustainably high, affecting clinician morale and analysts’ ability to extract insights for improving population health.All that is about to change for the better. As revealed in the latest Chilmark Research report, Natural Language
Read More
3M, Google’s Verily Life Collaborate to Develop Population Health Tools
3M Health Information Systems and Verily Life Sciences (formerly Google Life Sciences), an Alphabet company has signed a strategic partnership to develop new population health measurement technology for managing clinical and financial performance.The joint technology platform will be designed to analyze quality performance data across healthcare delivery systems and patient populations, and deliver meaningful information that can be used to promote real and sustainable improvements in healthcare
Read More
3M Acquires Medical Coding Technology Company Semfinder
3M Health Information Systems has acquired Semfinder, a Switzerland-based precise semantic medical coding technology company. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. For 3M, the acquisition will accelerate the availability of its 3M 360 Encompass System in countries adopting EMRs. With the 3M 360 Encompass System, organizations merge clinical and financial data to analyze, supplement and proactively execute on key clinical and financial data—at the point of care—resulting in a
Read More
Clinical Documentation Tech Tools w/ Carina Edwards, VP at Nuance
Interview/podcast with Carina Edwards, VP, Marketing at Nuance Healthcare where she discusses clinical documentation tech tools and it's integration in clinical workflow including the following:
ICD-10 Delay Client Impact
Importance of CLU Tools
CLU Integration in Clinical Workflow
Nuance's Future Market Opportunities
LISTEN BELOW OR CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD
HIT Consultant: Now given the announcement of the 1 year delay for ICD-10, have you seen any change in clients
Read More
Interview: Understanding Clinical Language Understanding with Carina Edwards, VP Solutions Marketing at Nuance Healthcare
There is a growing demand to extract structured, "actionable" information from unstructured (dictated) medical documents. Clinical Language Understanding (CLU) technology allows a computer to read and understand electronic free text and extract data for use in countless applications across the healthcare spectrum. To understand and learn more about CLU technology, HIT Consultant spoke with Carina Edwards, VP, Solutions Marketing at Nuance Healthcare for a deep dive into:
CLU
Read More
3 Implications of 3M’s Open Source Health Data Dictionary
Last month, 3M Health Information Systems released their Health Data Dictionary as open source software making it free and available worldwide. The open source contract is part of an agreement with U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary will provide the core technology to enable semantic interoperability for the joint DoD/VA integrated Electronic Health Record (iEHR), making it possible to share medical knowledge and secure patient
Read More
Video:3M Discusses Partnership with Nuance Healthcare Solutions
Video interview with Richard Woliniewicz, Ph.D, Director NLP Advanced Technology at 3M HIS speaking during HIMSS12 about 3M's strategic partnership with Nuance Healthcare solutions
Read More
Video:Understanding NLP Technology with 3M
Imminent delay of ICD-10 has not stopped the healthcare providers who have the foresight to charge ahead in their preparation for ICD-10. One of the biggest components that would assist healthcare organizations in that preparation for ICD-10 is purchasing a Computer Assisted Coding software product. One of the key components of a computer assisted coding product is it's Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology that provides the ability to highlight code-able terms in the patient record by
Read More
