MEDITECH announced it is integrating Nuance’s Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant into MEDITECH Expanse EHR platform. This integration will complement common clinician workflows by automating high value clinical and administrative tasks that will allow physicians to spend more time focused on, and improving, the patient experience. MEDITECH Integration with Nuance's Virtual Assistant Platform BenefitsNuance’s virtual assistant platform is optimized for the healthcare market with rich conversational
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How Will Apple’s New iPad Pro Impact Healthcare at the Point of Care?
DrChrono's Daniel Kivatinos explains how healthcare could benefit from going pro with Apple’s newest iPad.Take a good look at Apple’s iPad Pro, and you may see why the device could open new doors in productivity. In fact-- a glance is all that’s required to unlock it thanks to Face ID, one of its most appealing features. What could be improved if you put Apple’s Pro into the hands of willing healthcare providers?It turns out much good could come from employing the device in healthcare; it has
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Nuance Debuts AI-Driven, Cloud-Based Clinical Documentation Solution
Today at the AHIMA conference, Nuance introduced Nuance CDE One, a cloud-based workflow management, collaboration and insight system designed for clinical documentation improvement (CDI) teams. Driven by AI-powered capabilities, CDE One enables smarter workflows, and its powerful analytics provide health system executives with key insights into the staff, physician and program performance. CDE One works seamlessly with CDE Triage, Nuance’s cloud-based solution that prioritizes cases requiring
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M*Modal, Enjoin Partner to Enable Physician-Led CDI Consulting Services
M*Modal, a provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding™ solutions, and Enjoin, a physician-led clinical documentation integrity solution, today announced a technology-driven CDI (Clinical Documentation Improvement) advisory solution to help healthcare organizations succeed in risk-based population health. Putting providers at the heart of every HCC (Hierarchical Condition Category) CDI program, this clinically-focused solution provides a holistic view of the patient by combining
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Nuance Expands AI-Powered Clinical Documentation Platform Internationally
Nuance Communications, Inc., today announced they are expanding the availability of its full suite of conversational AI-powered clinical documentation solutions internationally – now available in countries across Europe, New Zealand, Canada and more. This expansion comes as many countries outside of the U.S. continue to invest in the digitization of their healthcare systems – including increasing electronic health record (EHR) adoption rates and achieving paperless clinical documentation
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How Phoenix Children’s Hospital Saved $1M Annually Eliminating Transcription in Ambulatory Clinics
Phoenix Children’s Hospital’s outpatient clinics has increased clinician productivity, enhanced the quality of documentation, and facilitated the delivery of better clinical information at the point of care through the implementation of Medicomp Systems' Quippe Clinical Documentation solution. In addition, Phoenix Children’s has virtually eliminated transcription in its ambulatory clinics, saving the organization over $1 million dollars annually on transcription costs.A strong partnership
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Western Maryland Health Taps Artifact Health to Streamline Physician Query Process
Western Maryland Health System has selected Artifact Health, a mobile platform that streamlines the physician query process to make it fast and easy for physicians to answer queries that improve the quality of patient records, ensure full reimbursement for services, and increase collaboration between clinical documentation improvement (CDI) and coding staff.With the implementation of Artifact Health’s mobile query platform, WMHS physicians can respond to a query compliantly in under a minute
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Nuance Study Reveals Rework Is Root Cause of Staff Burnout in Hospitals
Nuance has unveiled new study data in an infographic about the importance of reducing rework. The healthcare system is built on the premise of rework with clinical documentation specialists and coders going back to the care team for specifications and clarity on clinical documentation, causing physicians to relive their day and rework documentation done previously. Rework is a root cause of staff burnout in hospitals and healthcare systems.As physicians and care teams face mounting pressure and
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Nuance Integrates with Epic EHR to Provide Real-Time Clinical Documentation to Physicians At Point of Care
Nuance Communications and Epic recently announced that they have partnered to deliver computer-assisted physician documentation (CAPD) capabilities embedded within Epic to provide real-time clinical documentation improvement (CDI) feedback to physicians at the point of care.Nuance-Epic Integration DetailsBy electronically analyzing all relevant patient notes with AI technologies such as deep learning and natural language understanding, Nuance’s CAPD technology automatically identifies clinical
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4 Ways to Improve Clinical Document Capture
Written by David McKanna, product marketing manager at Nuance
“Business Week predicted the paperless office in 1975, when it was thought that computer records would completely replace paper. In the next two decades after that pronouncement, paper use doubled.”
This quote is taken from Persistent Paper: The Myth of “Going Paperless” from AMIA which provides a relevant list of reasons why paper is still widely used in healthcare. Even fully electronic (Stage 7) hospitals still receive
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