GE Healthcare and M Modal partner to deliver radiology reporting technology

With the aim to transition the industry from speech recognition to speech understanding, the agreement will incorporate M Modal’s advanced speech technology, AnyModal Conversational Documentation Services (CDS), as part of GE’s Centricity RIS-IC Reporting module. The solution will aim to benefit physicians and radiologists with higher process efficiency, more accurate clinical documentation and dictation without changes in workflow. In addition, the technology is designed to continually learn, so the more it is used, the more accurate it becomes.

By combining AnyModal CDS within Centricity RIS-IC, physicians will now be able to dictate without any change in workflow. The patented speech understanding services transform the spoken dictation into a draft report, automatically structured and encoded according to the healthcare provider’s documentation rules. Documents are generated in a semantically interoperable HL7 CDA format to allow for streamlined report sharing between practitioners and facilities.

Michael Finke, CEO of M Modal, said: “Our partnership with GE Healthcare accelerates the adoption of directly capturing structured and encoded data from radiology reporting by making speech an integral part of the radiology workflow.”