Allscripts Pairs with M*Modal
M*Modal said Thursday it has entered into a partnership with Allscripts, making its speech and language understanding technology available for Allscripts clients across all ambulatory and acute-care platforms.
The relationship will provide capabilities to create content-rich, voice-driven narrative patient documentation within Allscripts' electronic health record (EHR) systems.
M*Modal's technology, based on its Speech Understanding and Natural Language Understanding platform, will provide Allscripts' clients with new technology focused on making EHRs easier to learn and use. The integration supports Allscripts' commitment to offer flexible note-creation options.
In addition, Allscripts is incorporating the M*Modal technology into its mobility offerings, including its Sunrise Mobile MD II product for on-the-go speech understanding capability. Using Sunrise Mobile for the iPad, physicians can view complete patient context, use real-time speech to create immediate and detailed progress reports and other clinical notes, and have this documentation available to drive actions in the Allscripts Sunrise Clinical Manager system.
M*Modal's technology takes advantage of its cloud-based enterprise documentation platform to allow healthcare providers to speech-enable existing health information systems including EHRs, radiology information systems, and picture archiving and communication systems. Providers can use voice, in addition to a keyboard and mouse, to seamlessly interact with their desktop clinical applications, including the dictation of medical narrative and voice navigation within third-party applications. Using this solution, providers can improve documentation efficiency and avoid difficulties associated with template-based point-and-click systems, augmenting discretely captured data with a narrative of the patient's story.
"We are firmly committed to open software that delivers intuitive user experience and captures complete, accurate, and high-quality patient information," said Glen Tullman, CEO, Allscripts, in a statement. "M*Modal's technology optimizes the physician's ability to generate a detailed story very efficiently in our Enterprise EHR platform from either the workstation or a mobile device."