FRANKLIN, TN--(Marketwired - May 08, 2017) - M*Modal, a leading provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding™ solutions, today announced it will provide WVU Medicine with its artificial intelligence enabled documentation platform to reduce the administrative burden on 1,500 physicians while improving clinical and financial outcomes. WVU Medicine, a premier healthcare organization comprising nine hospitals including a 645-bed academic medical center and multiple physician practices, is in the midst of deploying the Epic EHR system. M*Modal market-leading solutions will help clinicians at WVU Medicine document quickly, accurately and completely in their Epic system, both in inpatient and outpatient care settings.
Upgrading from a legacy voice recognition product, WVU Medicine selected M*Modal to revitalize and standardize clinical documentation processes across the growing enterprise. Additionally, M*Modal's long-standing collaboration with Epic to power applications such as Epic NoteReader as well as the real-time clinical intelligence delivered with M*Modal Computer-Assisted Physician Documentation (CAPD) were key deciding factors. To meet WVU Medicine's goal of higher physician adoption and utilization of speech recognition technology to reduce cost and improve quality, M*Modal in-house Adoption Services will deliver differentiating expertise, training and responsiveness.
The Best Speech-Driven Solutions
With this strategic partnership, WVU Medicine will utilize top-ranking M*Modal solutions to empower both its front-end physician users and back-end medical editors transcribing over 25 million lines annually. The M*Modal speech-enabled documentation platform includes both #1 Best in KLAS, Speech Recognition: Front-End EMR, M*Modal Fluency Direct®, and #1 KLAS Category Leader, Speech Recognition: Back-End, M*Modal Fluency for Transcription®.
"We expect M*Modal CAPD to significantly reduce time-consuming, retrospective physician queries that are very disruptive to clinicians and labor intensive for nurses and CDI specialists," said James Venturella, Vice President and CIO of WVU Medicine West Virginia University Health System. "We are excited to leverage the M*Modal real-time natural language understanding technology to bring Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) to the front-end documentation workflow in Epic, which will free up back-end resources, improve chart documentation, support more appropriate reimbursement and deliver a significant return on investment."
"We are proud to serve as a collaborative partner to West Virginia University Medicine to deliver next-generation documentation solutions with an extensible technology framework for a growth-enabling documentation strategy," said Michael Finke, President of M*Modal. "Given our fully-aligned goals of improving the physician documentation experience, freeing up physician time for patient care and meeting organizational objectives on better clinical, financial and operational outcomes, we look forward to early and sustained success."