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Canopy Partners Selects M*Modal for Radiology Reporting and Analytics Technology to Improve Productivity and Efficiency

M*Modal’s Catalyst for Radiology™ platform leverages Natural Language Understanding, closed-loop feedback and in-cloud processing to enhance picture archive and communication systems (PACS) reporting and analysis

Franklin, Tenn. – March 19, 2013 – M*Modal, a leading provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding™ solutions, today announced that Canopy Partners, a healthcare management services organization based in Greensboro, N.C., has chosen M*Modal Catalyst for Radiology™ for creating complete, insightful and compliant imaging documentation. M*Modal’s technology platform gives radiologists the analytical tools and full historical view to make efficient and informed diagnostic interpretations.

M*Modal Catalyst for Radiology is a cloud-based workflow and reporting application that aggregates patient history and imaging records, uncovers insights and makes clinical information locked in narrative text quickly available and shareable. It allows radiologists to address and prevent documentation deficiencies at the point of care, structures documents with encoded clinical data, and gives immediate feedback to improve evidence-based decision making.

“Canopy Partners works with hospitals, imaging centers and medical practices to provide critical support in clinical and business workflow,” explained Worth Saunders, CEO of Canopy Partners. “M*Modal Catalyst for Radiology gives us the analytical capabilities to create meaningful and highly accurate imaging documentation, and complements our core expertise in delivering business intelligence to our clients.”

M*Modal Catalyst for Radiology helps understand the full meaning and context behind physician reports by applying Natural Language Understanding to narrative documentation. Unlike the rudimentary word spotting or tagging of most “natural language processing” products in use today, M*Modal’s technology goes far beyond keyword searches to provide insights that are not apparent when analyzing only structured data.

“For radiologists, delivering fast and accurate imaging interpretations is incredibly important in helping make referring physicians more productive,” said Vern Davenport, CEO of M*Modal. “M*Modal Catalyst products collect and synthesize all available clinical data to ensure reporting is compliant, comprehensive and accurate, which translates to better quality care and reimbursements.”

This solution is part of the M*Modal Catalyst™ portfolio of products and can be fully integrated with the M*Modal Fluency™ family of speech understanding solutions. This integration maximizes M*Modal’s cloud-based speech understanding technology for higher quality care and more accurate reimbursements. For more information on M*Modal please visit www.mmodal.com or follow on Twitter @MModal.

About Canopy Partners

Canopy Partners is a management service organization focused on innovative, robust and efficient solutions to the problems of healthcare organizations. We deliver billing services, business analytics, information technology and management services to health systems, hospitals, imaging centers and physician practices. Our object is to help our clients improve patient care, tighten their revenue cycle, optimize workflow and seamlessly integrate systems. Canopy Partners was started by Greensboro Radiology, a premier provider of diagnostic imaging and interventional radiology services. For more information about Canopy Partners, visit www.canopy-partners.com.

About M*Modal

M*Modal is a leading provider of clinical transcription services, clinical documentation workflow solutions, advanced cloud-based Speech UnderstandingTM technology, and advanced unstructured data analytics. Recognized as the largest clinical transcription service provider in the world with its global network of medical editors, M*Modal also offers voice to text and context solutions to capture the complete patient story, codifies the doctor’s narrative to automatically populate EMRs and other key healthcare information systems, delivers computer-assisted coding to support ICD-9 and the transition to ICD-10, and provides highly advanced analytical tools for exploring the richness within the “unstructured” narrative for improvements in quality of care, greater physician satisfaction and lower operational costs. For more information, please visit www.mmodal.com, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

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March 28, 2013 I Written By John

John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 15 blogs containing almost 5000 articles with John having written over 2000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 9.3 million times. John also recently launched two new companies: InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com, and is an advisor to docBeat. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit.

Filed Under: EMR

Tags:Canopy Partners cloud-based speech understanding technology Greensboro Radiology healthcare management interventional radiology services M*Modal Catalyst for Radiology M*Modal Fluency™ M*Modal’s Catalyst for Radiology MModal Natural Language Understanding picture archive and communication systems Vern Davenport Worth Saunders

M*Modal Announces Strategic Alliance with 3M Health Information Systems

Companies collaborate to link the physician narrative to the computer-assisted coding process

Franklin, TN – February 26, 2013 – M*Modal, a leading provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding™ solutions, today announced an agreement with 3M Health Information Systems enabling the M*Modal’s clinical documentation platform to work in conjunction with the 3M 360 Encompass System. Healthcare professionals will benefit from this advanced technology collaboration, which brings together cloud-based speech understanding, computer-assisted coding (CAC), clinical documentation improvement (CDI), quality metrics, and analytics into a unified data workflow for mutual clients of 3M and M*Modal.

Through this alliance, healthcare organizations can leverage M*Modal’s capability in structuring the voice-captured physician narrative into a Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), a markup standard used to define the structure of clinical documents such as discharge summaries and progress notes. Verified, structured, and stored clinical documentation delivered through M*Modal’s validation workflow can be processed directly by the 3M 360 Encompass System’s natural language processing (NLP) engine with minimal set-up and engine tuning.

“Healthcare IT leaders are asking their software vendors to collaborate in new and innovative ways to bring greater value to client organizations,” said JaeLynn Williams, senior vice president, 3M Health Information Systems. “With this agreement, 3M and M*Modal can simplify and speed the software implementation process so our clients can see the benefits of their technology investment much more quickly.”

The alliance will help healthcare organizations reduce interface costs and shorten technology implementation timelines. With streamlined access to M*Modal’s physician generated clinical documentation, mutual clients can more quickly realize value from 3M’s integrated CDI, CAC, and data analytic tools.

“M*Modal and 3M are working together to help healthcare organizations bring increased accuracy and simplicity to clinical documentation and coding processes,” said Matt Jenkins, Senior Vice President, Corporate & Business Development at M*Modal. “By creating structure from the physician’s narrative, we can drive downstream processes like billing and ICD-10 compliance to promote accurate reimbursements and patient outcomes data.”

3M and M*Modal will demonstrate how their product offerings work together at the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference, March 3-7, 2013 in New Orleans, LA. Visit M*Modal on the HIMSS13 exhibit floor at booth #6647 and 3M Health Information Systems at booth #2341.

The 3M 360 Encompass System integrates computer-assisted coding, documentation improvement, and performance monitoring workflows to achieve greater coding productivity, complete documentation for better coded data, more accurate reimbursement, and actionable data to improve patient care processes. It provides accurate, complete, and compliant data, while improving workflow efficiencies and identifying processes that impact patient care in real-time.

The M*Modal Fluency™ and M*Modal Catalyst™ clinical documentation platforms use a single, integrated speech engine, giving physicians and health care professionals a single user profile and consistent, high-quality documentation across all clinical systems. M*Modal’s solutions enable healthcare professionals to capture patient narratives, aggregate data across an enterprise in real time and retrospectively, and uncover insights to drive action.

About 3M Health Information Systems
Best known for its market-leading coding system and ICD-10 expertise, 3M Health Information Systems delivers innovative software and consulting services designed to raise the bar for clinical documentation improvement, computer-assisted coding, performance monitoring, and quality outcomes reporting. 3M’s robust healthcare data dictionary and terminology services support data interoperability and the expansion and accuracy of the electronic health record. With nearly 30 years of healthcare industry experience and the know-how of more than 100 credentialed 3M coding experts, 3M is the go-to choice for more than 5,000 hospitals worldwide that want to improve quality and financial performance. For more information, call 800-367-2447, visit www.3Mhis.com, or follow on Twitter @3MHISNews.

About M*Modal
M*Modal is a leading healthcare technology provider of advanced clinical documentation solutions, enabling hospitals and physicians to enrich the content of patient electronic health records (EHR) for improved healthcare and comprehensive billing integrity. As the largest clinical transcription service provider in the U.S., with a global network of medical editors, M*Modal also provides advanced cloud-based Speech Understanding technology and data analytics that enable physicians and clinicians to capture and include the context of their patient narratives in a single step into electronic health records, further enhancing their productivity and the cost-saving efficiency and quality of patient care at the point of care. M*Modal has been recognized as one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America, placing in the top third of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 for 2012.

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February 27, 2013 I Written By John

Filed Under: EMR

Tags:3M 3M 360 Encompass System 3M Health Information Systems Clinical Document Architecture EHR Electronic Health Records Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society Conference Healthcare Technology HIMSS ICD-10 Compliance JaeLynn Williams M*Modal Catalyst M*Modal Fluency™ Matt Jenkins MModal Natural Language Processing

VitalHealth Software to Participate in Health Story Demonstration at HIMSS 2013 Interoperability Showcase

VitalHealth Software to Showcase Cloud-based EHR Designed with Mayo Clinic in Collaborative Demo

Minneapolis, MN — February 19, 2013 —VitalHealth Software, a leading global provider of web-based solutions for health management founded by the Mayo Clinic and Noaber Foundation, today announced that the company will participate in a Health Story demonstration at the 2013 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference and Exhibition from March 3 -7, in New Orleans. VitalHealth will demo the latest version of its cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) solution as a participant in The HIMSS Interoperability Showcase™ (La Nouvelle Ballroom, Level 2). The VitalHealth EHR will serve as the interoperability and data sharing demonstration’s primary care EHR system. Designed in collaboration with Mayo Clinic’s Center for Innovation (CFI), the VitalHealth EHR is purpose-built to be easy to use, compatible with handheld devices such as tablets, and adaptable to the varied work styles of small practices. Delivered on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, VitalHealth EHR supports the latest interoperability standards. The EHR is certified for Meaningful Use and meets or exceeds HIPAA privacy and security requirements.

Approximately 1.2 billion clinical documents are produced in the United States each year, however this tremendous source of information is underutilized in current computer-based record systems. The Health Story Project will bring together several health IT vendors at HIMSS 2013 to demonstrate HL7 Consolidated CDA (Clinical Document Architecture) based interoperability, allowing attendees to follow the path of a patient across several points of care.

“Interoperability is crucial for achieving better outcomes and more affordable care, because it helps remove hazardous ambiguity, incompleteness and waste from the medical record. We have long been supporters of IHE and the Health Story Project, so we’re pleased to have been selected to participate this year,” said Blair Butterfield, President, North America, VitalHealth Software. “Our recent success at the North American Connectathon, where we passed all planned tests for exchanging C-CDA documents, was a key milestone to ensuring the demonstration at HIMSS will show the power of interoperability to enhance quality healthcare delivery.”

VitalHealth Software was founded to develop a game changing, cloud-based eHealth application platform, with an emphasis on solutions for managing chronic diseases such as diabetes, COPD, CHF, depression, cancer and Alzheimer’s. The company also has market-leading solutions for ACO, managing online interventions and outcome monitoring for behavioral health. VitalHealth’s primary goal is having a positive impact on the health of 10 million people in five years while at the same time becoming a market leader.

In the Health Story demonstration, which features six leading vendors, the VitalHealth EHR will first receive an unstructured CDA document containing scanned imaging data. After review and diagnosis, the primary care physician will then refer the patient to an oncologist, by generating a referral note and electronically transmitting a Continuity of Care Document (CCD) to the oncologist. The process will streamline and improve the accuracy and responsiveness of existing paper-based processes, demonstrating how interoperable health IT systems can lead to faster, cheaper, and better care delivery.

To learn about tailoring the VitalHealth EHR platform to meet the needs of medical specialties, please contact Arjen Westerink at awesterink@vitalhealthsoftware.com.

To schedule a meeting with VitalHealth Software at HIMSS, please contact Jessica Cohen at jcohen@ariamarketing.com.

About Health Story

The Health Story Project was founded four years ago by the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI), the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), the Clinical Documentation Industry Association, Lantana Consulting Group, and M*Modal. It is now a collaborative of over two dozen healthcare vendors, providers and associations. Health Story accelerates development of HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) Implementation Guides for common types of clinical documents, brings them through the HL7 ballot process and promotes their adoption within the industry. Over the previous four years, the initiative produced the first set of national data standards for clinical documents-use of which supports requirements for Meaningful Use of EHR systems. Health Story Promoter members include Fujitsu, Inofile, Lantana Consulting Group, M*Modal, Nuance, Optum and Verizon. The Health Story vision is for complete patient stories to be available in electronic medical records.

About VitalHealth Software

VitalHealth Software was founded as collaboration between the Noaber Foundation (NL) and Mayo Clinic (US), and delivers web-based software solutions for health management. Our model-driven software platform is used by a growing network of partners. VitalHealth Software has offices in the U.S., Netherlands and India. For more information about VitalHealth Software, please visit www.vitalhealthsoftware.com. For more information about VitalHealth EHR, please visit www.vitalhealthehr.com, or contact us via email at info@vitalhealthsoftware.com.

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February 22, 2013 I Written By John

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Speech Recognition Tools Look to Play a Crucial Role within EMR

KLAS’ 2013 look at speech recognition vendors provides key insights for providers

OREM, Utah – Thursday, February 14, 2013 - Speech recognition vendors hope that just as front-end and back-end speech technology proved to cut costs and improve efficiency for transcription and image documentation, similar efficiencies can be found for EMR. This and other insights can be found in a new KLAS report titled Speech Recognition 2013: Going from Back to Front and Beyond.

Through various discussions with providers, KLAS provides key insights into the current state of speech recognition vendors and future considerations. The report touches on early leaders, market share, and front- and back-end innovations. Provider satisfaction with vendors as well as peer recommendations is also shared.

“There is a lot of interesting movement in regard to vendors in this space,” said Ben Brown, research director and report author. “For example, MModal, like some of the other vendors, shows a significant increase in service scores with their back-end solution, yet they show a significant decrease in the same category for their front-end solution. It’s important for providers to know this before they move forward with a vendor.”

Other vendors highlighted in this report include Agfa, Dolbey, and Nuance. To learn more about the speech recognition vendors and findings in this study as well as related reports that will publish in 2013, check out the full report, Speech Recognition 2013: Going from Back to Front and Beyond. This report is available to healthcare providers at a significant discount. To purchase, visit www.KLASresearch.com/KLASreports.

About KLAS
KLAS is a research firm on a global mission to improve healthcare delivery by enabling providers to be heard and to be counted. Working with thousands of healthcare executives and clinicians, KLAS gathers data on software, services, medical equipment, and infrastructure systems to deliver timely reports, trends, and statistical overviews. The research directly represents the provider voice and acts as a catalyst for improving vendor performance. KLAS was founded in 1996, and KLAS’ staff and advisory board members average 25 years of healthcare information technology experience. For more information, go to www.KLASresearch.com, email marketing@KLASresearch.com, or call 1-800-920-4109 to speak with a KLAS representative. Follow KLAS on Twitter @KLASresearch.

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February 18, 2013 I Written By John

Filed Under: Electronic Medical Record Healthcare Healthcare IT

Tags:Agfa Ben Brown Dolbey EMR KLAS' 2013 medical equipmen MModal Nuance Speech Recognition Speech Recognition 2013 Speech Recognition 2013: Going from Back to Front and Beyond Speech Recognition Tools

UVA Health System speech-enables EHR system (via M*Modal)

University of Virginia Health System Selects M*Modal’s Speech Understanding Solutions M*Modal’s suite of cloud-based solutions delivers a single speech platform to create, manage and share high-quality patient records in electronic health record systems

Franklin, TN – January 29, 2013 – M*Modal, a leading provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding™ solutions, today announced that the University of Virginia (UVA) Health System will deploy M*Modal Fluency Direct™ and M*Modal Catalyst for Quality™ to speech-enable its electronic health record (EHR) systems, bringing greater insight and analysis to patient records. Using M*Modal’s cloud-based Natural Language Understanding™ speech engine, these solutions enable medical staff and informatics professionals to quickly and accurately capture clinical narratives for improved billing, productivity and patient care.

M*Modal’s technology is the exclusive speech platform for all of UVA’s health facilities, which include a 604-bed hospital, level I trauma center, nationally recognized cancer and heart centers and primary and specialty clinics throughout Central Virginia.

“Electronic medical records have significant potential to help us improve the care we provide for our patients,” said Mark Andersen, interim chief of technology services and health information for UVA Health System. “Comprehensive documentation of the care we provide is vital for a variety of reasons.”

The technology solutions selected by UVA Health Systems have different roles in the clinical documentation process and offer various benefits for all the stakeholders involved.

• M*Modal Fluency Direct enables physicians and hospital staff to dictate and originate documentation directly within EHR templates in a single step. Using speech instead of a keyboard, physicians tend to expand on the patient narrative, capturing greater insight in clinical documents that can be leveraged in areas like coding.
• M*Modal Catalyst for Quality aggregates records from across the enterprise, uncovers insights and makes clinical information locked in narrative text quickly available and shareable. It also identifies gaps and inaccuracies in documentation to drive CDI initiatives, quality measures and Meaningful Use readiness. By improving document specificity, it helps with ICD-10 transition.

“Using conversational documentation, our technology enables physicians to generate truly useable information that drives actions within an EHR, ensuring better productivity and patient outcomes,” said Vern Davenport, CEO of M*Modal. “M*Modal’s products give UVA Health System a strong platform for building dynamic, high-quality patient records and getting the most out of their EHR system investment.”

M*Modal’s solutions share a single, integrated speech engine, giving physicians and health care professionals a single user profile and consistent, high-quality documentation across all clinical systems. Both Fluency and Catalyst products provide comprehensive speech understanding from day one, based on a library of nearly 200,000 voice patterns in the M*Modal cloud. M*Modal’s Natural Language Understanding draws from a decade of learning to recognize medical terminologies and specialties, as well as different accents, dialects and cadences, for “first time right” speech understanding.

For more information on M*Modal please visit www.mmodal.com or follow on Twitter @MModal.

About M*Modal and MModal, Inc.
M*Modal is a leading healthcare technology provider of advanced clinical documentation solutions, enabling hospitals and physicians to enrich the content of patient electronic health records (EHR) for improved healthcare and comprehensive billing integrity. As the largest clinical transcription service provider in the U.S., with a global network of medical editors, M*Modal also provides advanced cloud-based Speech Understanding technology and data analytics that enable physicians and clinicians to include the context of their patient narratives into electronic health records in a single step, further enhancing their productivity and the cost-saving efficiency and quality of patient care at the point of care. M*Modal has been recognized as one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America, placing in the top third of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 for 2012. For more information, please visit www.mmodal.com, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

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February 6, 2013 I Written By John

Filed Under: Cloud Computing Electronic Medical Record EMR Healthcare

Tags:EHR electronic medical records M*Modal Catalyst for Quality M*Modal cloud M*Modal Fluency Direct™ M*Modal’s cloud-based Natural Language Understanding M*Modal’s Natural Language Understanding M*Modal’s Speech Understanding Solutions Mark Andersen MModal University of Virginia Vern Davenport

Providers Rethink Health Information Management Strategy in Face of Brewing ICD-10 Storm

Regulatory requirements and ICD-10 changes challenge current go-forward strategies

Orem, Utah – January 8, 2013 - Providers tell KLAS they are reassessing their go-forward health information management (HIM) strategies accompanying ICD-10 to address new challenges around organizational consolidation or expansion, EMRs, and other HIM technology implementations. This and other insights can be found in a new KLAS report entitled HIM Services 2012: Helping to Weather the Storm.

“The monumental shift to ICD-10 has providers worried about keeping up with regulatory requirements, obtaining and retaining the right staff, and handling the fluctuation in volumes and productivity that they predict will occur,” said Graham Triggs, research director. “As volumes increase with 10,000 baby boomers turning 65 every day for the next 18 years, the need for adequate, qualified, and trained staff becomes clear.”

Biggest HIM Department Challenge

To address these staffing and other HIM challenges, some providers are looking to third-party assistance to outsource transcription (MTSO), coding, scanning, or release of information. Providers looking to alleviate ICD-10 coding concerns are also considering computer-assisted coding (CAC) and clinical documentation improvement technology, which are also discussed in depth in this report.

A major focus of this report is a detailed discussion of the turnaround times, report quality, account management, and administrative tools of MTSO firms. Providers have also identified clear distinctions as they examine what firms offer in expertise and tools and their track records of client satisfaction.

Precyse and TransTech top the satisfaction rankings, but more comprehensive offerings by larger firms Nuance and M*Modal continue to dominate market share. Among reasons discussed in the report for Precyse’s and TransTech’s scores are their unique HIM offerings. Precyse offers clients transcription and coding services, a CAC product, and the ability to fully outsource the HIM department. TransTech is onshore only but still delivers consistent report quality and fast turnaround times as well as offering a unique service for radiologists. The key reasons behind Nuance’s and M*Modal’s offerings and market share dominance are discussed at length as well.

Other fully rated MTSO firms include Accentus, Acusis, Nuance (Transcend), and Superior Global. Early data and component firms include Amphion, FutureNet, Keystrokes, MedScribe, M*Modal, NEMT, PJ&A, StenTel, and Transdyne. Findings about Alpha Systems for scanning services and about Healthport and MRO Corp for release of information are also discussed.

To learn more about HIM Services 2012: Helping to Weather the Storm, please visit www.KLASresearch.com/KLASreports.

About KLAS
KLAS is a research firm on a global mission to improve healthcare delivery by enabling providers to be heard and to be counted. Working with thousands of healthcare executives and clinicians, KLAS gathers data on software, services, medical equipment, and infrastructure systems to deliver timely reports, trends, and statistical overviews. The research directly represents the provider voice and acts as a catalyst for improving vendor performance. KLAS was founded in 1996, and their staff and advisory board members average 25 years of healthcare information technology experience. For more information, go to www.KLASresearch.com, emailmarketing@KLASresearch.com, or call 1-800-920-4109 to speak with a KLAS representative. Follow KLAS on Twitter @KLASresearch.

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January 31, 2013 I Written By John

Filed Under: Electronic Medical Record EMR Healthcare Healthcare IT Medical Transcription

Amphion Medical Solutions Launches Triton Health Document Cloud™

Innovative cloud-based solution provides hospitals with the flexibility needed to respond to evolving transcription needs

MADISON, Wis. – Aug. 28, 2012 – Amphion Medical Solutions, an innovative provider of transcription and coding technology and outsourcing services, announced today the launch of Triton Health Document Cloud™. The flexible cloud-based transcription solution helps hospitals maximize budgets and resources, in part by facilitating a seamless transition between in-house and outsourced services in response to evolving needs.

“Amphion understands the challenge hospitals face to continuously deliver superior transcription services despite rapidly changing dictation volumes,” said Mike Cavill, chairman and co-founder, Amphion Medical Solutions. “For years, Triton has been the platform across which Amphion delivered the transcription services that helped our clients achieve those quality outcomes. Now Triton is available to any hospital interested in leveraging the power of the cloud to reduce costs and better manage their in-house transcription resources.”

Triton Health Document Cloud integrates M*Modal’s advanced speech understanding and natural language processing (NLP) technologies to create the next generation of clinical documentation workflow. It improves productivity by providing organizations with multiple options: providing transcriptionists with highly accurate documents ready for editing or giving clinicians the option to dictate, review and electronically sign reports in one session or send partial dictations to the transcriptionist for completion.

Triton also provides hospitals with the flexibility to retain all transcription in-house or to seamlessly shift overflow or full services to Amphion’s experienced transcription team as needed. Further, Triton is based upon Amphion’s “right-sized” demand-based pricing model, which means hospitals pay only for the transcribed volumes produced. This reduces costs by aligning transcription expenses with actual utilization.

“The flexibility of the Triton platform streamlines our transcription processes, while the robust management console gives us the ability to easily track all transcription-related activities and quickly adjust to changes in volume,” said Nancy Cloutier, HIM director of Boston-based Hallmark Health System. “Triton has helped us accelerate turnaround times, increase efficiencies and save time and money. It is unlike anything we have ever experienced before.”

Its robust speech understanding capabilities mean Triton is positioned to help hospitals meet proposed Stage 2 Meaningful Use criteria by translating physician dictation into searchable, structured information. Narrative clinical data, including diagnostic, procedural, medication and allergy information, is indexed and encoded for download into the hospital’s electronic health record (EHR) system, while Triton’s NLP capabilities transform narrative dictation into standardized, structured and codified HL7-compliant CDA output.

The Triton platform integrates easily with admission-discharge-transfer (ADT) and EHR systems and can be deployed by department or enterprise-wide. Finally, because Triton is cloud-based, no upfront investment in hardware or software is required and ongoing maintenance costs are eliminated.

About Amphion Medical Solutions

Founded in 2001, Amphion Medical Solutions (www.amphionmedical.com) delivers complete outsourcing services and solutions to meet healthcare clients’ transcription, coding and technology needs. With extensive healthcare expertise and leading-edge technology, Amphion leverages the proven benefits of transcription and coding outsourcing and provides organizations with the technology they need to manage an in-house transcription team. Featured products include Triton, a voice-recognition transcription platform, and Themis, a remote coding solution.

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September 24, 2012 I Written By David

Filed Under: Cloud Computing Healthcare Meaningful Use Stage 2 Medical Transcription

Tags:Advanced Speech Understanding Amphion Medical Solutions MModal Natural Language Processing Stage 2 Meaningful Use Transcription and Coding Technology Triton Health Document Cloud

MModal Debuts Cloud-Based Speech UnderstandingTM Platform With Extensive MModal ‘Fluency’ Family of Clinical Solutions

M*Modal announced the latest/greatest in a cohesive line of clinical speech solutions – Fluency Direct. Fluency Direct voice-enables EHRs and other clinical systems from anywhere, allowing physicians the flexibility of dictating their notes on-the-go while still providing top functionality needed to tell a more complete patient narrative in real-time.

Platform includes new M*Modal Fluency Direct^TM to speech-enable EHRs and orchestrate healthcare workflows

FRANKLIN, Tenn.–(May 9, 2012) — M*Modal (MModal Inc. – NASDAQ/GS: MODL), a leading provider of clinical documentation services and Speech Understanding™ solutions, today announced the launch of M*Modal Fluency™, a new family of clinical solutions built on the Company’s cloud-based healthcare Speech Understanding platform. The Company also today introduced M*Modal Fluency Direct™, which speech-enables EHRs and other clinical systems on any workstation, anywhere in the enterprise to assist care providers from every medical specialty in the creation of high-quality clinical documentation. Providers can conversationally update patient narratives while M*Modal Fluency Direct interprets and understands their statements and populates EHR templates in a real-time, single process.

“At M*Modal, we’ve taken a unique approach to capturing the complete patient story through the power of advanced Speech Understanding,” said Vern Davenport, Chairman and CEO, M*Modal. “We see the doctor’s narrative as a rich source of unstructured clinical data that can now be easily created, explored and analyzed to enhance the quality of care in the most efficient and meaningful ways, while improving internal processes, such as reimbursement.”

Benefiting from a decade of continuous advancements, this latest market introduction furthers M*Modal’s rich heritage of delivering speech technologies, contextual understanding and workflow orchestration technologies to the healthcare industry. The new line of M*Modal Fluency clinical solutions has been built on M*Modal’s proprietary cloud-based Speech Understanding platform. The M*Modal Fluency family of solutions was designed to orchestrate information-enabled dynamic workflows that improve the quality, completeness and compliance of clinical documentation. M*Modal Fluency Direct provides:

Speech Understanding Capability: This capability surpasses traditional speech recognition technology, by analyzing the spoken word, understanding the intent and generating actionable data that informs and drives workflow – all with unmatched accuracy in a real-time, single process.
Fully Integrated Enterprise-Class Technology: Whether relying on mobile reporting, direct EHR speech enablement or simply back-end transcription, providers enjoy a consistent, personalized experience from any location. All M*Modal Fluency solutions rely on a single, cohesive technology platform housed in the cloud.
Out-of-the-Box Accuracy from Day One: There is no need to train M*Modal Fluency. For the past eight years and 200,000 physician voices later, the system has processed and analyzed huge quantities of data to understand the spoken word and in what context it was spoken. It understands each physician’s accent, dialect, cadence and any sub-specialty terminology right out of the gate.

The Power of the Cloud: M*Modal Fluency allows providers to access a reliable and secure platform anytime, anywhere, on any workstation and provides IT departments with a streamlined deployment model that is easy to maintain.
Meaningful Use and ICD-10: M*Modal Fluency enables providers to be more efficient at capturing patient information in their clinical systems. This in turn drives adoption of EHRs and facilitates compliance with incentive programs such as Meaningful Use, as well as assisting with the transition to ICD-10.

The M*Modal Fluency family of speech understanding solutions includes:

M*Modal Fluency Direct™: Integrates effortlessly with leading EHRs and other clinical systems. Rather than typing, physicians simply speak into their EHR. In a single step, their voice instantly populates their system of choice.
M*Modal Fluency for Transcription™: Offers a single document management and workflow solution integrating the capture of voice with speech recognition, editing and electronic signature tools. Includes document distribution and EHR integration capabilities as well as advanced reporting analytics for data-driven decisions in support of workflow and quality improvements.
M*Modal Fluency for Imaging™: Redefines reporting by combining three solutions into one comprehensive platform – Speech Understanding technology with real-time prompts, unified worklists and departmental business analytics – to measurably improve productivity, efficiency, quality and patient outcomes.
M*Modal Fluency for Coding™: Uniquely combines computer-assisted coding, an embedded encoder and powerful workflow management tools to instantly impact the bottom line and ease the transition to ICD-10.
M*Modal Fluency for Practices™: Enables physician practices to be compliant and productive with a cloud-based document management platform, easy dictation, quality transcription and seamless integration with EHRs and other clinical systems.

“M*Modal Fluency is plug-and-play. It’s helpful to be able to just carry the mic as opposed to carrying a big computer with you,” said Daniel Fischman, MD, MMM, Physician Champion for Clinical Informatics, PinnacleHealth. “M*Modal is very precise regarding physician language. It’s geared towards the way physicians think and the way physicians speak. When I want to capture a patient or physician conversation, I’m now able to dictate complex or long conversations in a natural conversational manner.”

“Speech capability in the health care marketplace is exploding. However, to be successful, speech must be accompanied by natural language understanding,” said Dave Garets, General Manager and Executive Director of the Health Care IT research services, The Advisory Board Company. “The solution in demand is a cloud technology platform that a physician can leverage anywhere, anytime, with a unique voice profile that speeds more granular clinical documentation and helps enrich the information in the health care organization’s EMR and business intelligence tools.”

For more information on M*Modal and the M*Modal Fluency family of products, please visit www.mmodal.com or follow on Twitter @MModal.

About M*Modal

M*Modal (NASDAQ/GS: MODL) is a leading provider of clinical transcription services, clinical documentation workflow solutions, advanced cloud-based Speech Understanding^TM technology, and advanced unstructured data analytics. Recognized as the largest clinical transcription service in the U.S. with a global network of medical editors, M*Modal also offers voice to text solutions to capture the complete patient story, codifies the doctor’s narrative to automatically populate EHRs and other key healthcare information systems, delivers computer-assisted coding to support ICD-9 and the transition to ICD-10, and provides highly advanced analytical tools for exploring the richness within the “unstructured” narrative for improvements in quality of care, greater physician satisfaction and lower operational costs. For more information, please visit www.mmodal.com, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

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May 13, 2012 I Written By David

Filed Under: Clinical Documentation Cloud Computing EHR Healthcare Healthcare IT Medical Transcription

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DrChrono.com Now Offering First Medical Speech-to-Text Functionality on iPad® Via M*Modal Speech Understanding™

M*Modal, the industry leader in advanced Speech Understanding technology, today announced that DrChrono.com, the premier publisher of dynamic point-of-care and practice management software, is offering M*Modal’s unique Speech Understanding technology as part of Dr.Chrono’s innovative iPad EHR app.

World’s First iPad EHR Utilizing M*Modal’s Powerful Technology to Voice-Enable Innovative Platform

Pittsburgh, PA – July 19, 2011 — M*Modal, the industry leader in advanced Speech Understanding™ technology, today announced that DrChrono.com, the premier publisher of dynamic point-of-care and practice management software, is offering M*Modal’s unique Speech Understanding technology as part of Dr.Chrono’s innovative iPad EHR app. This integration represents the first medical speech-to-text functionality for the Apple® iPad® and adds a significant enhancement to the DrChrono.com platform—the first native EHR application built for the iPad.

DrChrono.com allows physicians to streamline their daily workflows by giving them the ability to access all health records on demand via the iPad, iPhone, any Web browser or Android device. For clinical documentation on the go, physicians dictate their notes into a Bluetooth headset, and M*Modal’s technology automatically transforms the voice into text directly in the digital patient record. M*Modal’s Speech Understanding permits conversational documentation that matches doctor preferences for workflow and promotes adoption of EHRs.

The iPad has achieved rapid adoption among physicians, reaching 30 percent of U.S. physicians currently and another 28 percent planning to acquire soon, according to a recent survey by Manhattan Research. Meredith Ressi, president of that firm, noted, “Physicians’ response to the iPad has been overwhelmingly positive, especially for use in the practice setting. Physicians also express strong interest in being able to access electronic medical records through the iPad – as more EMR providers offer this ability, iPad accessibility may be a deciding factor for some practices when selecting an EMR provider.”

Michael Nusimow, CEO and Co-Founder ofDrChrono.com said, “Our mission is to deliver an EHR that physicians will actually use. M*Modal’s ability to work on the iPad and its respect for doctors’ preferences and productivity needs made the company our choice for pioneering iPad-based speech-to-text.”

“DrChrono.com understands the need for mobility in clinical documentation with full context provided by the EHR,” said Michael Finke, CEO, M*Modal. “With the iPad appearing to be a true game-changer in healthcare, DrChrono.com’s collaboration with M*Modal has produced significant and beneficial innovation.”

M*Modal solutions support one-fifth of the physicians actively practicing medicine today in enterprise and clinic settings. M*Modal partners with a wide range of EHR, radiology system and clinical documentation companies.

About DrChrono.com

DrChrono.com has created the world’s first native iPad Electronic Medical Record Platform available for free download in the iTunes App Store. The DrChrono.com iPad EMR platform is paired with a hosted SaaS (Software as a Service) practice management backend that provides electronic medical billing and scheduling over the web. The DrChrono.com solution allows healthcare providers to achieve meaningful use of EMR technology while modernizing and streamlining their medical billing and accounts receivable. The DrChrono.com solution has attained 2011/2012 Meaningful Use Stage I certification as a complete EHR from CCHIT.
About M*Modal:
M*Modal, the market leader in advanced Speech and Natural Language Understanding technology, transforms narrative medical documentation into structured, encoded information to create meaningful, valuable clinical intelligence that can be shared, analyzed, and used to inform collaborative care. More than 800 healthcare organizations nationwide utilize M*Modal’s solutions to re-define the role of clinical narrative in improving and promoting quality of care, clinical efficiency, financial performance, and EHR adoption. For more information, please visit www.mmodal.com.

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July 23, 2011 I Written By David

Filed Under: Certified EHR Clinical Documentation EHR EHR Vendors Electronic Health Record Healthcare Practice Management System

Tags:Apple iPad clinical documentation Conversational Documentation DrChrono Practice Management Software iPad EHR App Meredith Ressi Michael Finke Michael Nusimow MModal Speech Understanding Technology Voice-Enable Innovative Platform

MedQuist Holdings and M*MODAL to Merge Creating the New Standard for Clinical Information Workflow

Financial Highlights
• Total consideration of $130 million, consisting of $77.2 million in cash and 4.1 million shares of common stock
• Positions the Company for stronger future revenue growth and enhanced margins, while achieving meaningful cost synergies
• Projected to increase the Company’s annualized Adjusted EBITDA run-rate approximately $20 million by year end 2012
• Expected to be modestly accretive to Adjusted Net Income per diluted share in the second half of 2011

Strategic Highlights
• Existing products provide for tighter EHR integration leading to increased physician adoption and Meaningful Use
• Technology pipeline enables new growth opportunities associated with clinical analytics and revenue cycle management
• Leverages core transcription business and provides further differentiation within the HCIT market
• Enables opportunities for greater penetration of the in-house transcription market segment
Operational Highlights
• Provides ownership of speech and Natural Language Understanding technologies
• Facilitates consolidation to a single speech recognition platform
• Accelerates M*Modal’s technology roadmap
• Provides a broader product offering to local and regional transcription partners
• Leverages M*Modal’s cloud-based services to enhance gross margins

Franklin, TN, July 11, 2011 – MedQuist Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: MEDH), a leading provider of integrated clinical documentation solutions for the U.S. healthcare system, announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire M*Modal and its advanced Speech Understanding™ technology for total consideration of $130 million. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including review under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, and is expected to close prior to the end of the third quarter of 2011.

M*Modal’s current annualized revenue run rate of $24 million (which includes amounts billed to MedQuist Holdings) is derived from its proprietary cloud-based software solutions that enable healthcare providers to easily convert speech into structured clinical information. This improves physician efficiency, enhances the integration of the physician narrative into electronic health records (EHR), and contributes to the analysis of clinical information for quality and reimbursement requirements.

Vern Davenport, MedQuist Holding’s newly appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, noted, “This transaction combines MedQuist’s strengths of capturing the physician narrative, our large customer base, global presence and deep domain expertise in healthcare with the innovations of M*Modal’s currently available technologies and strong product roadmap. Their scalable cloud-based solutions, Speech Understanding™ platform, strong technology pipeline and a large team of speech and language scientists and engineers complement MedQuist’s clinical workflow solutions.”

Michael Finke, Chief Executive Officer of M*Modal, added, “Given the outstanding strategic fit between us, we are positioned to create a whole new level of clinical documentation workflow and analytics solutions that address some of the healthcare industry’s most pressing issues. This merger gives M*Modal the immediate resources and access to customers required to accelerate and extend our technology development efforts.”

MedQuist and M*Modal provide advanced speech understanding technologies and services that seamlessly capture the physician narrative, according to Davenport. “We have an opportunity to jointly become a more visible, strategic technology enabler of healthcare organizations as they strive to successfully adopt electronic health records, navigate the move to a value-based healthcare system and derive critical quality and outcomes data from the structured clincial intelligence we create,” he said.

The purchase price, which is subject to customary working capital and cash adjustments, is comprised of $48.4 million in cash paid at closing, $28.8 million in installments paid in cash over the next three years and 4.1 million shares of MedQuist Holdings common stock currently valued at $52.8 million, based on $12.76 per share using the average closing price over the trailing 10 trading days ending immediately prior to the date of signing the definitive agreement. The Company will fund the cash component of the purchase price from available cash. Additionally, the Company expects to incur fees and expenses, including additional restructuring and integration costs associated with this transaction, of approximately $13 million. The Company also expects to accelerate the amortization of approximately $12 million of certain prepaid licensing fees.

The Company obtained consents from the majority of both its senior and subordinated lenders to exclude this acquisition from the appropriate acquisition-related covenants. The Company’s subordinated lenders have agreed to certain additional modifications; principally, reducing the amounts due under existing make-whole provisions, if such debt is exchanged prior to maturity, increasing allowable leverage limits, uncapping the future use of common shares allowed to be used for acquisition and increasing annual amounts available for dividends and stock repurchases up to $25 million, plus available excess cash, as defined.

The Company intends to provide more detailed integration, organizational and branding plans at closing and any updates necessary to its previously issued performance goals for 2011 when it reports second quarter results in mid-August.

Investor Conference Call and Web Simulcast
MedQuist Holdings will host a conference call on July 12, 2011, at 8:00 a.m. CT to discuss the transaction. The number to call for the interactive teleconference is (212) 231-2903. A replay of the conference call will be available through Wednesday, July 19, 2011, by dialing (402) 977-9140 and entering the confirmation number, 21531191.

A live broadcast of MedQuist Holdings quarterly conference call will be available online at the Company’s website, www.medquistholdings.com, under Investor Relations or http://www.videonewswire.com/event.asp?id=80865 on July 12, 2011, beginning at 8:00 a.m. CT. The online replay will follow shortly after the call and continue for one year.

About MedQuist

MedQuist is a leading provider of medical transcription services and a leader in technology-enabled clinical documentation workflow. MedQuist’s enterprise solutions – including mobile voice capture devices, speech recognition, Web-based workflow platforms and a global network of medical editors – help healthcare facilities improve patient care, increase physician satisfaction, and lower operational costs. For more information, please visit www.medquist.com.

About M*Modal

M*Modal, a leader in advanced Speech and Natural Language Understanding technology, transforms narrative medical documentation into structured, encoded information to create meaningful, valuable clinical intelligence that can be shared, analyzed, and used to inform collaborative care. More than 800 healthcare organizations nationwide utilize M*Modal’s solutions to re-define the role of clinical narrative in improving and promoting quality of care, clinical efficiency, financial performance, and EHR adoption. For more information, please visit www.mmodal.com.