BIRMINGHAM, Ala. and
BURLINGTON, Mass., Oct. 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Vincari
announced a clinical documentation reseller agreement with
Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) to streamline surgical
documentation and coding processes, driving improved clinician
satisfaction, efficiency, and health system reimbursement.
Through this new agreement, Nuance will offer the Vincari
Surgical Computer-Assisted Physician Documentation (CAPD) solution,
expanding Nuance's CAPD offerings to the surgical suite. The
Vincari offering complements Nuance's artificial intelligence
(AI)-powered offerings and provides a guided workflow experience
designed to address the unique administrative challenges surgeons
and proceduralists face, while ensuring more timely reporting and
appropriate reimbursement.
The shift to value-based care is increasing the pressure to
deliver timely, accurate and compliant clinical documentation. For
hospitals and healthcare systems, documentation inaccuracies and
delays in surgical procedure notes and operative reports can put
significant reimbursement at risk. Simultaneously, evolving
clinical documentation guidelines make it more challenging to
capture and code appropriately, while complex physician schedules
across multiple locations make it difficult for clinical
documentation specialists to follow up with clarifying
questions.
With limited time to document completely and accurately, the
Vincari Surgical CAPD solution helps surgeons capture
ICD-10-specific and Joint Commission-compliant details at the point
of care. It provides an intelligent workflow design tailored to
surgeons' specific needs, automatically prompting them when
clarifications are needed to satisfy regulatory guidelines and
helping eliminate retrospective queries and delays. In less than 90
seconds, a highly detailed and compliant report is created and made
immediately available in the electronic health record (EHR) for the
entire care team. To save time and improve efficiency, a copy is
distributed to referring physician practices, and an automated
charge capture report is sent to the surgeon's practice for coding
and billing purposes. By capturing the required level of
specificity and accuracy in documentation and streamlining coding
processes from the start, the Vincari Surgical CAPD solution
enables health systems to accelerate the revenue cycle and realize
more appropriate reimbursement.
"Tailored to their individual style and needs, Vincari surgeons
can capture compliant documentation quickly after a procedure, said
Dr. Lucian Newman, Chief Medical
Officer, Vincari and practicing general surgeon. "Through this more
efficient documentation and coding process, health systems will be
able to receive appropriate quality ratings and reimbursement with
documentation that accurately captures the level of care
provided."
Surgeons are often dissatisfied with existing EHR workflows that
do not meet their unique needs. Powered by artificial intelligence,
Vincari Surgical CAPD predicts a surgeon's documentation habits
based upon learned patterns and uses available patient information
to streamline the clinical documentation and coding process, all
while continuously adapting to evolving documentation requirements.
It improves the surgical team's efficiency with quick access to
daily surgery schedules and patient lists on their mobile devices.
Vincari Surgical CAPD also allows surgeons to analyze program
performance through case tracking that enables research and
improvement opportunities for the health system.
"From the moment a surgeon begins planning their day to the
distribution of a complaint report, the Vincari Surgical CAPD
solution enables a holistic approach to quality documentation
backed by the power of speech and artificial intelligence," said
Michael Clark, SVP Clinical
Documentation Solutions, Nuance. "Adding the Vincari offering to
our Nuance CAPD portfolio delivers a better clinical documentation
experience which means more time for patient care, more satisfied
physicians and improved financial outcomes for health systems."
"Our facility understands the needs of physicians and the
critical balance of time spent between patients and documentation.
We've chosen Vincari to provide our physicians an exceptional
product to make documentation and coding of ICD-10 easy and
effortless. Vincari gives physicians the time to be physicians,"
said William Mahone,
President Halifax Regional Medical Center, Novant Health.
For more information about how Nuance and Vincari are
enhancing surgical clinical documentation and helping health
systems realize appropriate reimbursement,, visit booth #715
(Nuance) at AHIMA's 89th Annual Convention & Exhibit in
Los Angeles, CA from October 7-11 or booth #1419 at MGMA in
Anaheim, CA from October 8. To learn more about the features of
the Vincari CAPD solutions, click here.
Nuance provides intelligent systems that support a more natural
and insightful approach to clinical documentation, freeing
clinicians to spend more time caring for patients. Nuance
healthcare solutions capture, improve and communicate more than 300
million patient stories each year, helping more than 500,000
clinicians in 10,000 global healthcare organizations to drive
meaningful clinical and financial outcomes. Nuance's award-winning
clinical speech recognition, medical transcription, CDI, coding,
quality and medical imaging solutions provide a more complete and
accurate view of patient care.
About Vincari
Headquartered in Birmingham, AL,
Vincari is the Electronic Physician Assistant designed to improve
the way patient information is captured, leveraged, and delivered.
Vincari's rules-based, point of care physician workflows help
capture the complete picture of patient encounters from the
bedside, hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers. By leveraging
learned physician behavior and existing clinical information,
Vincari improves workflow efficiency and streamlines the
documentation and coding process. As a result, clinical
documentation and charge capture data is delivered immediately to
office and hospital EMRs, all while logging case data for research,
recertification, and analytical purposes. For more
information, please visit www.vincari.com.
About Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance
Communications, Inc. 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.
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or its affiliates in the United
States and/or other countries. All other trademarks
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