Delivering Next-Generation CAPD with Real-Time Advice to Help
Physicians Document the Most Complete and Accurate Patient Story for
ICD-10 Compliance, Medical Necessity, and Improved Patient Care
Today, Nuance
Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) launched Dragon
Medical Advisor, a next generation Computer-Assisted Physician
Documentation (CAPD) solution that automatically provides real-time
quality feedback to physicians while they are documenting patient
encounters. This improves the completeness of clinical notes and helps
provider organizations meet the impending ICD-10 requirements, justify
medical necessity of care decisions, and support better patient care.
Building on the work done in 2011 when Nuance pioneered the industry’s
first CAPD solution, Dragon Medical Advisor processes physician notes
using any input method – speech or keyboard – analyzes the structured
and unstructured documentation within the notes, and automatically
provides physicians with clinical
documentation improvement (CDI) recommendations based on industry
best practices and guidelines.
Cloud-based CDI Advice
Dragon Medical Advisor is a cloud-based solution that leverages the
patented Nuance Clinical
Language Understanding (CLU) technology. It can be rapidly deployed
across any size healthcare enterprise and any electronic health record
(EHR) to help physicians create high-quality documentation at the point
of care, resulting in a more complete, compliant, and accurate
description of the patient story. Designed for both inpatient and
ambulatory settings, Dragon Medical Advisor automatically recognizes
when incomplete or unspecific information is entered and provides
relevant advice on how to improve the quality of the note. The result is
a more comprehensive picture of the patient’s condition, improved
efficiency of staff, a reduction in discharged but not final billed
(DFNB) charts, and more appropriate reimbursement.
“Building on Nuance’s extensive work with virtual assistants, Dragon
Medical Advisor functions like a specialized medical virtual assistant
for physicians,” explains Joe
Petro, senior vice president of Healthcare
Research and Development, Nuance Communications. “It provides
immediate feedback during clinical documentation and focuses on
high-impact areas, such as congestive heart failure, where the lack of
required specificity can negatively affect patient care, as well as
coding and risk adjustment.”
Query Relief for Physicians
A recent study found clinicians spend approximately 69
minutes per day searching for information requested by someone else.
By providing instant feedback while the patient story is still fresh in
the mind of the physician, Dragon
Medical Advisor improves productivity by reducing time-consuming and
workflow-disrupting retrospective CDI queries needed to provide
information required by current regulations such as ICD-10.
“Dragon Medical Advisor is a win for physicians because it provides
immediate feedback on what to improve in clinical notes while they are
still thinking about the patient instead of querying physicians to fix
records for patients seen hours or days before,” said Rizwan Pasha, MD,
practicing ED physician at Kettering Health and Co-Founder of Physician
Technology Partners. “This real-time guidance is also a win for
organizations that need CDI starting with physician documentation to
achieve the appropriate level of reimbursement without disrupting
clinical care.”
Availability
Dragon Medical Advisor is available today. For a glimpse of the Dragon
Medical Advisor, please join
our breakfast on Tuesday, September 29, stop by to see a demo or
visit nuance.com.
For the full list of the Nuance sessions at AHIMA, please visit: events.nuance.com/AHIMA2015Presenters.
About Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) is a leading provider of
voice and language solutions for businesses and consumers around the
world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user
experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with
devices and systems. Every day, millions of users and thousands of
businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications. For more
information, please visit: www.nuance.com/for-healthcare.
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The statements in this press release relating to future plans, events
or services, are forward-looking statements which are subject to
specific risks and uncertainties. There are a number of factors
which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from
those indicated in such forward looking statements, including
fluctuations in demand for the Nuance products, and the continued
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