Geisinger partners with Precyse, M*Modal for documentation, billing efficiency
Precyse Solutions, which specializes in health information management, and M*Modal, which develops speech understanding and natural language processing technologies, have joined with the 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 the human voice, converting it to text and transforming it into information.
The Precyse, M*Modal and Geisinger partnership is intended to redesign revenue cycle workflow and enhance coding efficiency while enabling fast and efficient responsiveness to physician queries. The partners hope to see this collaborative technology replicated across the country.
This solution provides a snapshot of management, resource and reporting tools for mission-critical health information management processes on one platform, monitored and managed through a dashboard. The NLP-enabled, automated coding technology also bridges Geisinger’s electronic health record, dictation, transcription, coding and clinical documentation improvement processes by capturing, editing, coding and directing physician dictation into Geisinger’s EHR software platform.
The platform is deigned to enable Geisinger physicians to dictate directly into the EHR with minimal impact to current workflow patterns. Clinical information is electronically tagged so that it can be searched, mined and analyzed by healthcare team members responsible for driving hospital care and outcomes.
Officials say this solution will also accelerate an organization’s ability to demonstrate meaningful use of IT to qualify for HITECH incentives.
“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, Geisinger's vice president of IT optimization.
“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.”
