University of California, Irvine Selects M*Modal for Advanced Speech Understanding Solutions to Enhance Clinical Documentation and Outcomes

M*Modal’s suite of cloud-based solutions integrates seamlessly with UCI’s Allscripts Electronic Health Record™ system to offer faster, more flexible documentation methods

FRANKLIN, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--M*Modal, a leading provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding™ solutions, today announced that the University of California, Irvine Medical Center, named among U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals for 12 consecutive years, will deploy M*Modal Fluency Direct™ and M*Modal Catalyst™ to deliver advanced cloud-based clinical documentation technology solutions to its world-class physicians, surgeons and clinical staff. These applications will be integrated with Allscripts Sunrise Clinical Manager™, UC Irvine’s existing electronic health record (EHR) system.

“Our partnerships with Allscripts and other EHR providers ensure a seamless integration, saving healthcare professionals valuable time and effort while lowering the overall cost of care.”

Using conversational documentation, M*Modal’s solutions enable physicians to generate truly useable information that drives actions within an EHR, such as order entry or reconciling lists of symptoms and treatments. These benefits are not possible without direct access to an EHR's data model, and enable a truly integrated workflow. In addition, users have tremendous flexibility in capturing information (via telephony, mobile devices and more) as well as editing.

“With this technology, we have the ability to input medical data directly into our EHR at the point of capture, which can really improve the efficiency and productivity of our staff,” said Jim Murry, chief information officer, UC Irvine Healthcare, Information Services. “This system will allow UC Irvine to streamline our clinical documentation processes and further advance how we deliver care to our patients.”

M*Modal Fluency Direct speech-enables EHRs and other clinical systems using any workstation, anywhere in the enterprise to create high-quality clinical documentation. The application also eliminates the manual click-point-type method of creating structured notes, and elevates the overall quality and totality of digital clinical information. With M*Modal Catalyst, users can extract actionable information from “unstructured” medical documentation, regardless of how that data was created, and combine it with structured data contained in electronic clinical systems.

“Our cloud-based technology surpasses traditional speech recognition solutions, allowing UCI to create high-quality clinical documentation in EHRs in a conversational manner – anytime, anywhere, on any workstation,” said Vern Davenport, CEO, M*Modal. “Our partnerships with Allscripts and other EHR providers ensure a seamless integration, saving healthcare professionals valuable time and effort while lowering the overall cost of care.”

UC Irvine was seeking a technology solution that could conversationally update patient narratives – while interpreting and understanding the physician’s statements – to automatically populate EHR templates in real-time, as well as drive actions that improve patient outcomes. UC Irvine selected M*Modal to enhance its clinical documentation process, based on the technology’s seamless integration with the Allscripts™ EHR system, and to bridge the gap between structured data and language, capturing the full patient story and making it immediately useable, actionable and shareable with providers across the organization.

In addition to these products, UC Irvine will upgrade its documentation system by implementing M*Modal Fluency for Transcription™, which enables physicians to incorporate voice input and structured text through a single application.

M*Modal is a Platinum Plus Partner of Allscripts.

For more information on M*Modal please visit www.mmodal.com or follow on Twitter @MModal.

About the University of California, Irvine:

Founded in 1965, UCI is a top-ranked university dedicated to research, scholarship and community service. Led by Chancellor Michael Drake since 2005, UC Irvine is among the most dynamic campuses in the University of California system, with nearly 28,000 undergraduate and graduate students, 1,100 faculty and 9,000 staff. Orange County’s second-largest employer, UC Irvine contributes an annual economic impact of $4 billion. U.S. News & World Report has included UC Irvine Medical Center among its list of America’s Best Hospitals for 12 consecutive years. For more UCI news, visit www.today.uci.edu.

About M*Modal

M*Modal is a leading provider of clinical transcription services, clinical documentation workflow solutions, advanced cloud-based Speech Understanding^TM technology, and advanced unstructured data analytics. Recognized as the largest clinical transcription service provider in the world with its global network of medical editors, M*Modal also offers voice to text and context solutions to capture the complete patient story, codifies the doctor's narrative to automatically populate EHRs and other key healthcare information systems, delivers computer-assisted coding to support ICD-9 and the transition to ICD-10, and provides highly advanced analytical tools for exploring the richness within the "unstructured" narrative for improvements in quality of care, greater physician satisfaction and lower operational costs. For more information, please visit www.mmodal.com, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.