Commissure Announces Company Formation Dedicated to Medical Documentation and Communication Solutions
Company Actively Engaged in “Closing the Loop” on the imaging services ordering, documentation and communications.
New York, NY (PRWEB) October 10, 2005
Commissure recently announced its entry into the healthcare information industry with a host of innovative products. Designed to provide clinical data solutions for clinicians and radiologists, Commissure's slate of products was created to improve patient care in a timely and cost effective manner.
"We recognized a critical need to close the loop on accurate and timely documentation and communication between medical professionals," says Commissure CEO Michael Mardini. "Commissure was founded to facilitate a no holds barred approach to innovation. Working in conjunction with leading healthcare facilities, we've created products with innovative, patented technologies and decision support algorithms that are designed to reduce critical errors while optimizing clinical effectiveness."
Commissure has been engaged in stringent research, development and testing of its new products for quite some time. Today, Commissure's line of products is setting the stage to bring a new wave of solutions to healthcare facilities. These products include RadWhere™ Suite and RadPort™ Suite, robust software solutions for clinicians and radiologists. Within each solution package resides a set of individual components designed to increase efficiency and communication for healthcare facilities. “Commissure RadWhere provides a simple unified workflow for our complex multi-vendor RIS, PACS and EMR environment. It also allows us to design, develop and integrate our own web service components into the overall solution” says Dr. Keith Dreyer, Vice Chairman of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital.
RadWhere™ Suite provides a host of services for radiologists by improving the means by which reports are created, decisions are made and communications completed. Its real-time speech-reporting component uses patented natural language understanding algorithms to speed the reporting process and ultimately reduces how much the radiologist must say to complete a report. It's real-time auto structuring capability enables automated knowledge access for mining clinical data as the radiologist speaks. This allows for intelligent access to relevant data in the diagnostic decision support process. In addition, key clinical content is added to the radiology report. RadWhere™ Suite is also capable of at analyzing radiology reports and coding them with the proper ICD9 codes, eliminating the need for manual coding. RadWhere's enterprise teleradiology component solves the problems associated with servicing multiple sites and using multiple applications by intelligently connecting to all sites and providing a single workstation in which to access studies.
Communicating critical findings in a confirmed, audited manner becomes as easy as a click of a button with RadWhere's critical communications component. Let RadWhere track down clinicians to communicate an urgent finding --- You will view an immediate receipt that they've received it right on your reporting workstation.
"To call RadWhere a voice recognition product does not do it justice," says Dr. Lincoln Berland, Professor and Vice-Chairman for Development at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Radiology. "This is an entirely new approach to radiology reporting that could better be called 'computer assisted reporting.' Providing one-click, real-time information on diseases and anatomy while the report is being dictated will fundamentally improve the way radiologists do one of their most important jobs - communicating."
RadPort™ Suite focuses on assisting referring clinicians with the sometimes-daunting task of ordering radiology exams and accessing multi-media results for their patients. Often, referring physicians have trouble choosing the most clinically effective exam based on a patient's conditions. RadPort’s decision support criteria, based on prior work by the American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria in this area, were developed by expert panels of physicians in all specialties of medicine. Based on input from over 1500 clinicians over a period of 10 years, RadPort's Decision Support component adds a comprehensive and continuously updated knowledge base that provides real-time decision support information to clinicians at the time of ordering by suggesting the most appropriate exam based on indications and history.
RadPort also has the ability to allow the referring physician to easily check the status of an exam and review the report after the exam has been performed, solving the problems associated with results distribution.
RadPort's Practice Builder component allows a radiology administrator or manager to examine ordering patterns of referring clinicians for utilization management and quality assurance purposes.
"These are some new and innovative approaches to solve some enduring problems in healthcare." says Dr. James Thrall, Chairman of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. "The reporting component has the potential to reshape how a radiologist gets their work done and improve how they communicate with the rest of the community." One of Commissure's earliest customers, The Massachusetts General Hospital is already experiencing significant cost savings, improved workflow and ordering efficiencies.
"We understand that clinically correct medical imaging order placement is the first step to improving patient care and reducing medical imaging costs," says Mardini. Commissure has addressed this issue by creating tools that provide vital information and guidance to ensure correct order placement.
"Healthcare facilities face a number of complex problems as they struggle to find ways to accurately and promptly document and communicate with their clinical professionals. With the formation of Commissure and the launch of its innovative product solutions, this company is poised to solve those problems-no matter how complex the answers may be."
About Commissure:
Commissure is a leading provider of medical documentation and communication solutions. The Commissure team brings together decades of experience with hundreds of healthcare institutions worldwide, dozens of leading industry vendors, and all key healthcare standardization committees. The company’s products and services drive efficiencies in information management through innovative structured speech recognition technology that closes the loop on the creation and communication of medical documentation. Their goal is to help clients achieve dramatic productivity gains and cost savings through more efficient creation, management and ‘encounter sensitive’ timely access of important clinical information.
With robust software solutions for radiologists and clinicians, Commissure is closing the loop on accurate and timely documentation and communication between medical professionals. RadWhereTM Suite is designed to dramatically improve the work efficiency of radiologists by enhancing the critical areas of speech recognition reporting, ICD-9 coding, enterprise teleradiology, quality assurance, and critical findings communication. RadPortTM Suite supports clinicians by aiding them in such areas as decision support, order entry and multimedia results viewing. For more information, please visit www. commissure. com.
RadWhere™ Suite, and RadPort™ Suite are registered trademarks of Commissure Corporation. All rights reserved.
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