Automatically Scans and Codes Patient Records; Automatically Abstracts Patient Data and Demographics
Dolbey announced that Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, part of the Saint Barnabas Health Care System, has gone live with its Fusion CAC™ computer-assisted coding (CAC) solution to increase the efficiency of its outpatient records and automate data abstraction for streamlined billing and coding. Shortly, the hospital will go live with Fusion CAC for its inpatient records.
Fusion CAC is a comprehensive CAC technology that scans the entire patient record for appropriate ICD9-CM diagnostic and procedure codes and CPT codes using innovative language processing technology. Its patent-pending algorithmic software electronically analyzes entire medical charts to pre-code with both CPT procedure and ICD9 diagnostic nomenclatures. Manual coders, enhanced with the results of Fusion CAC can easily approve or amend the automatic results and increase efficiencies by as much as 80%.
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center is using the Fusion CAC system to replace its manual coding and abstraction process which requires staff to physically retrieve medical documents and enter code information into the system redundantly.
The hospital is already seeing the system significantly improving the efficiency and consistency of human coders. Newark Beth Israel expects to see a reduction in the amount of time between when a patient is discharged and when billing is complete—also known as the discharged not final billed (DNFB). “The rollout of Fusion CAC was an exceptionally seamless and smooth experience,” said Tom Gregorio, vice president and CIO at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. "The end user coders embraced the technology and were up and running quickly. We went live on schedule and the Fusion CAC technology easily integrated into the rest of our hospital systems. In today’s economy, being able to expedite the coding process and make the billing process as streamlined as possible contributes real savings to our hospital’s bottom line. Fusion CAC is helping us do more with less while allowing us to deliver a cleaner bill with consistent coding standards across the organization.”
“Newark Beth Israel Medical Center is an excellent example of an innovative hospital that is combating the growing cost of healthcare reimbursement by decreasing its claims denials, improving data accuracy, and enhancing records management to facilitate compliance,” said Stuart Covit, executive vice president of Artificial Medical Intelligence.
About Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, an affiliate of the Saint Barnabas Health Care System, is New Jersey’s largest non-university-based teaching hospital. The Medical Center provides comprehensive health care services to its local communities and is a major referral and treatment center for patients throughout the northern New Jersey metropolitan area. The Beth is also home to Children’s Hospital of New Jersey, providing state-of-the-art care in nearly 30 pediatric subspecialties.
About AMI
Founded in 2002, Artificial Medical Intelligence is a healthcare informatics software developer, focusing on increasing efficiency within Health Information Management. Its patented natural language processing engine, EMscribeTM, powers Fusion CAC and provides suggested ICD9-CM and CPT codes for both the inpatient and outpatient encounter. AMI’s solutions are targeted at hospital healthcare facilities, communicating seamlessly with all hospital systems, as well as larger clinics and physician practices that are looking to automate process management and improve the processing medical documents. The company is headquartered in Eatontown, New Jersey.
About Dolbey
Dolbey is a leader in providing dictation, transcription, speech recognition and coding solutions for healthcare in the United States and Canada. Together, Dolbey and Company, Inc. and Dolbey Systems, Inc. offer the award winning Fusion Suite™ of integrated products which is backed by the industry’s largest organization of certified professionals who assist in design, implementation and support.
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