M*Modal Announces Strategic Alliance with 3M Health Information Systems

M*Modal, a provider of clinical documentation and speech solutions, inked a deal with 3M Health Information Systems enabling its clinical documentation platform to work in conjunction with the 3M 360 Encompass System. 

This advanced technology collaboration brings together cloud-based speech understanding, computer-assisted coding (CAC), clinical documentation improvement (CDI), quality metrics, and analytics into a unified data workflow for mutual clients of 3M and M*Modal. 

Through this alliance, healthcare organizations can leverage M*Modal's capability in structuring the voice-captured physician narrative into a Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), a markup standard used to define the structure of clinical documents, such as discharge summaries and progress notes. Verified, structured, and stored clinical documentation delivered through M*Modal's validation workflow can be processed directly by the 3M 360 Encompass System's natural language processing (NLP) engine with minimal set-up and engine tuning. 

"Healthcare IT leaders are asking their software vendors to collaborate in new and innovative ways to bring greater value to client organizations," said JaeLynn Williams, senior vice president of 3M Health Information Systems, in a statement. "With this agreement, 3M and M*Modal can simplify and speed the software implementation process so our clients can see the benefits of their technology investment much more quickly."

"M*Modal and 3M are working together to help healthcare organizations bring increased accuracy and simplicity to clinical documentation and coding processes," said Matt Jenkins, senior vice president of corporate and business development at M*Modal, in the statement. "By creating structure from the physician's narrative, we can drive downstream processes like billing and ICD-10 compliance to promote accurate reimbursements and patient outcomes data."