Dolbey Unveils DocAssist for Physician Guidance with ICD-10

Dolbey has rolled out DocAssist Documentation Guides to help hospitals train physicians to document patient reports in accordance with upcoming ICD-10 PCS requirements.

"The gap between how physicians document today is so vastly different from how they will need to document with ICD-10," said Chris Casto, vice president, Dolbey, in a statement. "Without training before and during the transition, hospitals risk a revenue impact as coding and billing will ultimately be slowed."

Integrated with Dolbey's speech recognition and dictation products, DocAssist works in all the modalities that physicians use to dictate and document. If using a computer or speech recognition, DocAssist provides visual menus. When dictating over a telephone, DocAssist provides an interactive voice response with language understanding and optional SMS text messaging to prompt the physician toward an accurately coded ICD-10 PCS code.

"Our research found that as much as 60 percent of the documentation in a patient's chart is still dictated and transcribed," said Robert Sintic, chief technology officer, Dolbey, in a statement. "By providing DocAssist using the telephone for dictation, a hospital can provide this unique technology to their entire physician staff."

DocAssist provides a physician with a short question and answer session, or guide, as they begin documenting a patient's procedure. These DocAssist Guides are built from a proprietary and patent-pending process that is based on a combination of coding guidelines and the words and expressions that physicians use in identification of devices, anatomy and methods.

"We feel we are uniquely qualified to provide our customers with an end-to-end solution for documentation that encompasses traditional dictation, speech recognition and computer-assisted coding solutions," said Casto.

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