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GE Healthcare 's intuitive diagnostic reporting solution seeks to help enhance clinical efficiency, referring physician satisfaction, quality of Care

GE Healthcare , a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company,  announced that its Centricity Precision Reporting solution, a diagnostic reporting tool that leverages advanced speech understanding, is now integrated with Centricity PACS. This evolutionary solution weds efficient workflow with a sophisticated speech-understanding engine to capture patient data throughout the radiology reporting and image archiving processes.

The Precision Reporting solution uses advanced speech technology to facilitate the natural flow of language for more accurate speech recognition without extensive training or workflow changes.

This enables the tool to deliver more accurate and complete reports in less time, with fewer errors, across a center’s entire Centricity image storage system.

“This is a significant achievement and we’re thrilled to be able to roll it out to our Centricity PACS customers here at the Radiological Society of North America annual meeting ( RSNA 2009 ) ,” said Don Woodlock, Vice President and General Manager of GE Healthcare IT, speaking from the trade show at Chicago’s McCormick Place this week.

The clinics of Radiology & Imaging Specialists (Lakeland, Fla.) have been using the Precision Reporting solution with Centricity RIS-IC and have achieved new workflow efficiencies that have resulted in 100% radiologist adoption, reduced reporting turnaround time and a 32% reduction in monthly transcription costs.

 “This is one of the smoothest transitions to voice recognition software that I have ever seen and that is not a small task,” says David Marichal, Assistant Executive Director of Radiology & Imaging Specialists (Lakeland, Fla.). “The Precision Reporting solution lets our radiologists speak normally without slowing them down or changing the way they work and report.”

According to Marichal, the Precision Reporting solution reduced report turn-around-times from an average of four hours to less than two hours. Stat reports were typically delivered in 30 minutes or less. Radiology & Imaging Specialists has also reduced transcription costs with Precision Reporting’s one-click normal and self-editing tools.

“Our radiologists find this solution to be more efficient than standard dictation,” adds Marichal. “It is easy-to-use, requires no voice training and streamlines the reporting process by pulling data elements such as the exam header, technique, contrast and views from the RIS into the report template.”

Radiologists have the flexibility to self-edit or send to the medical editor for revisions.  In addition, the Precision Reporting solution seeks to improve accuracy through its design to continuously learn each speaker’s voice, intent and dictation habits. It creates Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) documents using the HL7 standard as a common framework for transmitting data, and stores rich structured documents in CDA format.

“Early feedback from our Centricity PACS partners indicate similar success to our customer experience with Precision Reporting as integrated to RIS-IC,” added Woodlock.  “Integrating this exciting technology into PACS helps bring potential benefits in cost, productivity and patient care to the fingertips of radiologists who use Centricity PACS.  That’s why we’re so excited about this solution.”

Source: GE Healthcare

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