BayScribe takes next step in developing end-to-end web-based
Clinical Documentation System with the MedLEE Portal
Clinical Documentation System with the MedLEE Portal
Edgewater, MD — June 24, 2010 — BayScribe enters into a strategic partnership to integrate and develop applications that leverage the unique capabilities of the MedLEE™ Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology from NLP International. NLP International has created a universal SaaS portal to give healthcare facilities, MTSOs and Clinical Documentation Systems, like BayScribe’s Cloud-based platform, access to a broad range of applications designed to support automated, low-cost healthcare solutions to improve Quality, EHR Adoption and accelerate Meaningful Use.
BayScribe plans to jointly advance these applications in cooperation with NLP International, healthcare pundits and other MTSOs to offer these valuable solutions to inpatient and outpatient health providers and organizations. The combination of these technologies creates an end-to-end web services solution available from no other company.
The MedLEE™ Natural Language Processing engine codifies standard text documents for data extraction, thereby enabling Discrete Reportable Transcription (DRT). MedLEE™ was developed over the course of 20 years by Columbia University in New York and is a powerful patented NLP engine that automates analytics, reporting and alerting for outflows such as Core Measures, Present on Admission (POA), PQRI, Patient Summary review, coding and billing support, decision support, clinical trials and more. MedLEE™ has been successfully tested by large hospital systems and government agencies, including Columbia University, the New York Presbyterian Hospital, the National Cancer Institute and the U.S. Department of Defense and is considered the gold standard of Natural Language Processing Solutions.
"We believe that integrating BayScribe with MedLEE creates an end-to-end Clinical Documentation System that is unparalleled in the healthcare industry,” said Ron Neuenberger, President of BayScribe. "We believe that the physician narrative will continue to be the preferred method of documenting patient encounters for some time because it's quick, easy and supports a thorough analysis. It's our obligation to bring this difference-making technology to Healthcare facilities, directly or indirectly, through NLP International's platform-neutral portal. Dictation and Transcription isn’t dying; it’s evolving, and we believe it will be a critical documentation component for many years, and MedLEE enables the data extraction everyone needs,” added Steven Bonney, V.P. of Business Development at BayScribe.
"A significant proportion of the nation's electronic healthcare records exist in the form of unstructured text - such as word or PDF - and the amount of that data is growing dramatically," noted Bernie Keppler, founder and CEO of NLP International. "MedLEE is a perfect match for the healthcare professionals since it enables physicians to adopt EMR’s with no decrease in their volume. Healthcare organizations will be able to meet the governmental and economic challenges by significantly reduce costs, by creating interoperable data and have the metrics to report on outcomes. Our partnership with BayScribe is representative of how MTSO are enabling healthcare providers and organizations to realize this value,' added Kyle Silvestro, V.P. of Corporate Strategy and Business Development at NLP International.
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NLP International Corporation offers healthcare professional a patented world-class Natural Language Processing Solution: MedLEE™ . MedLEE has been successfully commercialized from Columbia University over the past 18 months and is now the market leader in Natural Language Processing technology. With its unique deployment model NLP International makes this world class solution available for through our MedLEE Portal. The MedLEE Portal is a SaaS offering the has applications ranging from Quality to Semantic Search and Retrieval to Computer Assisted Coding and Meaningful use. 
