NEW YORK, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Yosi Health, a provider of digital patient scheduling, registration, payment, and communication cloud-based software solutions, announced today that their award-winning Yosi Health platform now offers full bi-directional integration with Henry Schein MicroMD, a provider of on-premise and cloud-based practice management, electronic medical records, and standalone e-prescribing solutions that help health care professionals streamline workflows and manage practices. Read more →

Latest integration from Wolters Kluwer enables clinicians to unlock the value of unstructured clinical information for more complete patient insights October 26, 2021 – Wolters Kluwer, Health announced today that MicroMD®, Henry Schein Medical Systems’ practice management and electronic medical record (EMR) solution, will implement the Health Language clinical Natural Language Processing (cNLP) solution to help accelerate and optimize patient medical record review. By extracting clinically relevant data locked in unstructured text, such as medical history and free-form notes, Health Language cNLP helps enable clinicians to glean a more complete picture of a patient’s health which can drive better outcomes. Industry estimates suggest that more than 80% of valuable healthcare information locked in unstructured text1, requiring manual review of each patient record that contributes to increased risk of human error, time and cost. Health Language cNLP helps to mitigate these challenges by automating the review of unstructured data, extracting clinically relevant information, codifying information to broadly understood industry standards, and mapping information to a patient’s record. “The need to capture medical decision-making, combined with new coding requirements, often lead to a narrative-intensive documentation process, generating a trove of critical medical information buried in free text, such as medical history, progress [...]

“Google Translate for Clinician-Speak” Can Help Improve Clinical Documentation Accuracy with Smarter Problem and Diagnosis Search January 5, 2021 – Wolters Kluwer Health announced today that Henry Schein MicroMD, a practice management and electronic medical record (EMR) solution, will be using Health Language Clinical Interface Terminology (CIT) to quickly map over a million medical abbreviations, typos, incomplete terms, and acronyms to standardized terminology. As a result, clinicians using MicroMD can easily search for diagnoses and procedure codes using their own day-to-day jargon with Wolters Kluwer Health Language Provider-Friendly Terminology (PFT). “Unspecified diagnosis codes can have a significant financial impact for a medical practice. To avoid revenue loss, it’s critical that patient encounters be documented correctly at the point of care,” said Kristen Heffernan, General Manager at MicroMD, a Henry Schein company. “The integration of Wolters Kluwer’s provider-friendly terminology solutions can help enable clinicians to document more quickly and accurately, help reduce rejected claims, and help increase patient time with their providers.” Health Language PFT is built upon tools that deliver a computer-processable collection of medical terms providing codes, terms, synonyms and definitions used in clinical documentation and reporting, such as ICD-10-CM, ICD-9-CM, and SNOMED CT®. Sophisticated search algorithms convert a clinician’s problem [...]

Annual Award Highlights Exemplary Healthcare Organizations Dedicated to Making Care Safer and More Efficient ARLINGTON, Va. – November 2, 2020 – Surescripts, the nation’s leading health information network, announced 10 winners of the 2020 Surescripts White Coat Award™, which recognizes healthcare industry leaders for improving healthcare through prescription accuracy. This year’s winners include: Electronic Health Records (EHR) Vendors: athenahealth, Inc., Henry Schein MicroMD, NewCrop and Office Ally Health Systems: Hartford HealthCare, Hospital Sisters Health System, MidMichigan Health and Montage Health Retail & Mail-Order Pharmacies and Pharmacy Technology Vendors: Lincare, Inc. and Walmart Today, e-prescribing is widespread, with 80% of all prescriptions filled in the U.S. sent electronically. But there are still opportunities to improve the accuracy of these highly sensitive electronic transactions. In fact, each electronic prescription contains 40 distinct data elements, and there can be more than 800 variations of common directions such as “Take one tablet by mouth once daily.” “Year after year, participants from across the Surescripts Network Alliance® continue to raise the bar when it comes to creating safer and more efficient prescriptions,” said Tom Skelton, Chief Executive Officer of Surescripts. “These improvements mean physicians and pharmacists spent less time exchanging phone calls and faxes to [...]