Wayne, Pa., November 15, 2010 — Precyse Solutions, a leader in Health Information Management (HIM) services and technologies, has announced the appointment of William F. Bria II, M.D., to the Precyse Advisory Council (PAC). Led by Board Member Alan Weinstein, the 8-member PAC team functions as a source of high-level input and advice on the strategic positioning and expansion of Precyse Solutions’ service offerings. In addition, the PAC is a conduit for new business opportunities, client engagement and best practice sharing as a result of the extensive experience and networks developed by each of the council members.
“The healthcare industry today is evolving at a lightning-fast pace. Amid our collective advancement, it is critical that, regardless of legislation, mandates or unanticipated bumps in the road, we remain focused on using information technology and the management of health data to improve the safety, quality and consistency of patient care,” said Dr. Bria. “I look forward to sharing my insights on the future and successful use of healthcare technology to help bridge the use of technology and the practice of medicine for Precyse and the many clients they serve today and will serve in the future.”
Dr. Bria serves as Chief Medical Information Officer at Shriners Hospital for Children (SHC) in Tampa, Fla., where he directs the medical informatics plan for the 22-hospital SHC system across the United States, Canada and Mexico. This includes the implementation of an integrated EHR system in each hospital as well as formulating and implementing the clinical decision support and business intelligence components for the system. He also is an advisor to the National Center for Research Resources, a component of the National Institutes of Health, and to the Elsevier medical informatics advisory board. He is president and co-founder of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS), an organization of clinicians with formal responsibility for healthcare information technology leadership. He also is an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and the University of South Florida.
Dr. Bria is the author of The Physician-Computer Conundrum: Get Over It! and Digital Communication in Medical Practice, and he has been widely published in numerous industry publications. In 2010, the HIMSS Board of Directors presented him with the Physician IT Leadership Award.
“We are delighted to welcome Dr. Bria to our Advisory Council,” said Jeffrey Levitt, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Precyse Solutions. “We are confident that, with his experience and leadership, particularly in the area of healthcare informatics, he will bring new knowledge and value to our group and to Precyse, supporting us in delivering our vision for 2011 and beyond.”
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Precyse Solutions Spotlights Breakthrough Automated Clinical Documentation Solution at AHIMA
Wayne, PA Sep 23, 2010 — Precyse Solutions, a leader in Health Information Management (HIM) services and technologies, will showcase its services and debut its new Automated Clinical Documentation software platform, including a unique Computer Assisted Coding software engine, at the upcoming AHIMA Convention & Exhibit in Orlando, Fla., September 25-‐30 (Booth # 1809). In keeping with the show’s theme, Prosper Through Change, Precyse will unveil the latest addition to its robust HIM portfolio at the show:
PrecyseCode™, the most advanced health information management platform available today.
“As the HIM partner for many of the world’s best healthcare organizations, Precyse is highly committed to finding innovative ways to improve productivity, quality and accuracy, streamline processes and increase revenue for our hospital and physician practice clients ,” said Ken Lacy, Chief Information Officer, Precyse Solutions. “In the Precyse AHIMA booth, the team will demonstrate PrecyseCode, in collaboration with our technology partner M*Modal. We are excited to show providers how PrecyseCode breaks through the clutter of an antiquated process to streamline and modernize the information management workflow.”
Today, the Baptist Health System (BHS) in Birmingham, Ala., uses PrecyseCode to resolve a variety of challenges in its coding department. According to Chloe Phillips, Corporate Director of HIM, BHS, “The BHS team was frustrated by a number of issues, including recruiting and retaining quality coders, optimizing the coders’ proficiency, capturing revenue that human error may have missed, retaining a coding audit trail and meeting changing compliance rules and regulations. Working with the Precyse team and technologies, BHS was able to increase productivity, accuracy and quality, while significantly reducing costs.”
In addition to PrecyseCode, while attending AHIMA, the company will showcase its total HIM services, interim management solutions for healthcare organizations, along with Precyse University and ICD-‐10 educational programming services. As hospitals and health systems transition from paper to electronic medical records, Precyse supports key initiatives, including EHR transition, clinical documentation improvement and program implementation, medical record purges, loose filing and analysis of backlogs.
Health systems can encounter unexpected volume shifts, management turnover, staffing gaps or the transition from paper to EHR software, which can negatively impact HIM operations. Precyse offers a variety of options to improve and streamline HIM departments, including management services, transcription, coding and other vital Precyse Solutions at AHIMA Convention department functions. Additionally, Precyse provides extensive HIM Department operational assessments that review current structure and procedures, revenue cycle and billing effects, and offer recommendations for improvements, based on best practices.
“Healthcare administrative managers face declining reimbursements, spiraling administrative costs, demands for quality information and ongoing staffing challenges, which can hinder HIM department efficiency,” Lacy continued. “Precyse Solutions is a proven, experienced business partner, focused on delivering quality services and technologies to enhance and improve operations. We look forward to showcasing our unique solutions, extraordinary track record and latest success stories while at the AHIMA conference.”
Precyse Solutions AND M*MODAL Announce Breakthrough CAC Solution
Pittsburgh and Wayne, PA Sep 22, 2010 — At the 82nd AHIMA Convention and Exhibit, Precyse Solutions, a leader in Health Information Management (HIM) services and technologies, and M*Modal, a pioneer of advanced Speech Understanding technology and provider of on-‐demand conversational documentation, announce their partnership to deliver a robust ICD-‐10-‐ready Computer Assisted Coding (CAC) engine in the release of PrecyseCode™, the most advanced health information management platform available today.
To best optimize coding operations and accelerate ICD-‐10 transition for hospitals and health systems nationwide, PrecyseCode capabilities have been built from the ground up to be ICD-‐10 compatible. As opposed to updating or reengineering a CAC solution to meet ICD-‐10 requirements, PrecyseCode has been specifically designed and engineered to be ICD-‐10 compatible. On the road to meaningful use of the Electronic Health Record (EHR), the HIM industry is challenged with integrating EHRs into the coding process. The CAC engine inherent in PrecyseCode now provides a bridge between EHR documentation, the transcription system and the healthcare provider’s financial systems.
“Facilitating the transition, implementation and management of health information systems that support an effective and efficient healthcare system and maintain health data integrity is of paramount concern to Precyse and our customers,” said Jeffrey Levitt, Chairman and CEO, Precyse Solutions. “In this same environment, where coding staff shortages challenge providers as they simultaneously face the most significant changes ever made to our coding structure, the quality, compliance and workflow benefits that PrecyseCode delivers are critical to overcoming these obstacles.”
For the past five years, Precyse has partnered with M*Modal and integrated M*Modal’s sophisticated Speech Understanding technology seamlessly into the Precyse dictation and transcription workflow platform, transforming speech into meaningful and usable clinical information. M*Modal’s industry leading Conversational Documentation Services (CDS) enables Precyse to deliver both extremely accurate and complete draft documents from speech, as well as coded and indexed discrete data in a machine-‐readable format, with immediate turnaround time.
“Stemming from our initial collaboration, M*Modal and Precyse have worked closely to develop the most powerful CAC solution available to the market today, maximizing EMR and HIS investments for healthcare organizations,” said Michael Finke, CEO and Founder of M*Modal. “Our unique solutions are designed to best assist in making clinical documentation intuitive and meaningful to the physician, the healthcare provider organization and the patient simultaneously.”
Demonstrating the Impact of PrecyseCode
In 2007, the Baptist Health System (BHS), a four-‐hospital system in the greater Birmingham, Ala., area, was having difficulty recruiting and retaining certified coding professionals and experiencing coding efficiency challenges. BHS had hired four separate teams of coders to handle each hospital’s needs. The workload volumes for each hospital fluctuated considerably, leading to backlogs and overtime during busy periods and underutilized staff during slower times. To overcome this, Precyse Solutions worked with BHS as a beta site for PrecyseCode.
PrecyseCode revolutionized the coding workflow at BHS, allowing BHS to “virtualize” the coding department, creating an integrated, seamless and productive team. Working with Precyse’s team and implementing PrecyseCode has helped BHS increase productivity, accuracy and quality, while significantly reducing costs and providing valuable management reporting tools. Since recently implementing this new process and technology, BHS has experienced a 20 percent increase in coding efficiency; a 5 percent increase in DRG-‐based revenue through more accurate coding and improved Case Mix Index (CMI); a 10 percent reduction in voluntary auditing; coder productivity improvement; reduced audit costs; and a revenue increase of 0.25 percent, due to better information and more accurate coding.
“We have found Precyse Solutions technologies to be instrumental to our coding department, delivering consistent outcomes that are at or above industry standards, enabling our team of coders to work remotely and streamlining information sharing through a new electronic model, “ said Chloe Phillips, Corporate Director of HIM, Baptist Health System. “With Precyse, we’ve seen a significant improvement in our coding department’s team dynamics, quality, productivity and accuracy. I am confident in the ability of Precyse Solutions to help BHS successfully transition to ICD-‐10 and have a smooth journey to meaningful use. ”
Phillips will be discussing the BHS beta of PrecyseCode in peer-‐to-‐peer conversations at the Precyse Solutions booth (#1809) during the 82nd AHIMA Convention and Exhibit, September 25-‐30, Orlando, Fla. Additionally, experts from Precyse and M*Modal will showcase the breakthrough capabilities of PrecyseCode at demonstration kiosks in the Precyse Solutions AHIMA booth.
Why PrecyseCode?
With transcription driven by M*Modal’s software-‐as-‐a-‐service (SaaS) model, PrecyseCode significantly enhances coding quality, delivering increased accuracy and improved coder productivity and enabling fast and easy completion of physician queries. Furthermore, the solution ensures compliance with industry standards, allowing users to seamlessly transition to ICD-‐10 and facilitate the drive to meaningful use standards. Additionally, PrecyseCode helps providers benefit from the auto-‐assignment of work pools, eliminating manual work assignments and prioritizing high-‐cost, high-‐LOS records for careful management of DNFB and improved charge capture.
Even with these advanced features, PrecyseCode does not eliminate the need for coding professionals to be fully involved in the coding process. Instead, it makes coding professionals more productive—reducing the average amount of time it takes to code a case—and more accurate—decreasing denials, reducing audit discrepancies and identifying lost charges that may have otherwise been under-‐coded. With PrecyseCode, coders are able to focus more time on reviewing clinical documentation against medical codes in a friendly user interface. Additionally, PrecyseCode allows coders to review, modify and validate coding against local and national coverage guidelines in real time.