Speech Understanding automatically converts the spoken work into structured and encoded clinical data that provides access to relevant diagnostic support, evidence based medicine and real time alerts. Unlocking the data tucked away in the vast mountain of documents produced as part of delivering care to patients is possible today with Speech Understanding, the next generation of speech recognition technology that not only improves the overall efficiency of the documentation process by producing higher quality, more accurate clinical data but also produces structured encoded clinical data that can populate EMR’s that are crying out for high quality input. This information is encoded using the HL7’s Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) and Common Document Types (CDA4CDT). With knowledge of the meaning the output from Speech Understanding is now able to identify concepts, organize documents into meaningful categories and create a semantically interoperable document .

1. Speech Understanding Dictation to Clinical Data: Automating the Production of Structured and Encoded Documents Nick van Terheyden, MD Chief Medical Officer M*Modal

2. Speech Understanding Dictation to Clinical Data: Automating the Production of Structured and Encoded Documents TEPR Annual Conference Tuesday February 3, 2009 Nick van Terheyden, MD Chief Medical Officer, M*Modal Technologies

5. EMRs Need Structured Encoded Clinical Data

6. EMRs Need Structured Encoded Clinical Data How does this fit in

12. Conversational Documentation The Missing Link in Information Capture in Healthcare

14. Nothing but Speech to Text

15. Speech to Text Dictation Regular Transcription Speech Engine Text Document/ Report

16. Speech-to-Clinical Document

20. How it works

21. Meaningful Clinical Documents The Missing Link in Information Capture in Healthcare

22. Accessible Clinical Data

23. One Voice – Many Outputs™

28. Conclusion

31. Speech Understanding Dictation to Clinical Data: Automating the Production of Structured and Encoded Documents Nick van Terheyden, MD Chief Medical Officer M*Modal

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