A-Life Medical to Bring Lernout & Hauspie's Sophisticated Speech Recognition Capabilities to Automated Coding Applications.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 18, 1999-- L&H Voice Xpress(TM) To Be Integrated With A-Life's IntelliScribe(TM) Product for Medical Records Coding A-Life Medical, Inc., the leader in advanced natural language processing Natural language processing Computer analysis and generation of natural language text. The goal is to enable natural languages, such as English, French, or Japanese, to serve either as the medium through which users interact with computer systems such as (NLP (Natural Language Processing) The capability of understanding human language. If the language is spoken, voice recognition plays an important role in converting the sounds to individual words. Then, natural language processing figures out what the words mean. ) technology for the medical industry, today announced that it will add Lernout & Hauspie's (L&H(TM)) L&H Voice Xpress for Medicine speech recognition technology to its IntelliScribe automated medical records coding product. L&H is a global speech and language technology company. IntelliScribe is a member of A-Life's growing family of products and is designed for emergency medicine physicians and radiologists to directly dictate medical charts using speech recognition, with real-time automated coding of the text input. Utilizing L&H Voice Xpress for Medicine, IntelliScribe will now enable even faster and more accurate dictation than before. L&H Voice Xpress for Medicine's speech recognition engine includes a special vocabulary module designed to understand complex medical language for a variety of clinical specialties, including the terminology for emergency medicine, radiology, and internal medicine, among others. L&H Voice Xpress for Medicine was selected for integration with IntelliScribe because its speech recognition and vocabulary capabilities exceed those of the former competitive recognition engine, improving accuracy and decreasing training time for implementation of the IntelliScribe product. "We are very excited about our growing relationship with Lernout & Hauspie," said Richard Wesson, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of A-Life Medical, Inc. "We are confident that L&H Voice Xpress will provide us with increased speech recognition and vocabulary capabilities, adding sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. , improved accuracy, and speed to our IntelliScribe product. By combining the speed and accuracy of L&H's speech recognition technology and IntelliScribe's real-time automated coding and physician feedback, we are enhancing productivity and dramatically reducing transcription costs for our customers." "Speech recognition technology is rapidly gaining acceptance in healthcare as a way to reduce transcription costs, reduce report turnaround time (1) In batch processing, the time it takes to receive finished reports after submission of documents or files for processing. In an online environment, turnaround time is the same as response time. , and automate tasks like medical coding," said T. Ivan Mimica, vice president of L&H Healthcare Solutions Group. "By combining our award winning L&H Voice Xpress for Medicine product with their IntelliScribe application, A-Life Medical is breaking new ground in ease of use and productivity for their customers." IntelliScribe offers physicians a convenient method for dictating and coding complex medical records. Physicians can work directly at a PC workstation, or use the mobile L&H digital voice recording software. Once the dictation is complete, the physician can utter a simple command, "code document," at which time the LifeCode engine "reads" the electronically transcribed medical record and produces the ICD-9 and CPT CPT See: Carriage Paid To codes, as well as the overall E/M E/M Electro/Mechanical E/M Evaluation Model levels and supporting data. About A-Life Medical, Inc. A-Life Medical, Inc. is a high tech medical informatics medical informatics, n the field of information science concerned with the analysis and dissemination of medical data through the application of computers to various aspects of health care and medicine. company that specializes in automating text processing in the medical industry. A-Life uses advanced natural language processing techniques that emulate human understanding of language. With these techniques, A-Life has successfully taught a computer to "read" narrative text associated with physicians' charts and to automatically assign complex ICD-9 and CPT codes (including E&M service levels in Emergency Medicine) used for billing and data collection. A-Life's current focus is on coding in the emergency medicine and radiology specialties, with plans to expand to other areas of medicine, including inpatient services inpatient service Managed care A service provided to a hospitalized Pt. Cf Outpatient service. . Founded in 1996, A-Life Medical is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. . For more information on A-Life and its products, call 858/268-9999 or visit A-Life at www.alifemedical.com. LifeCode and IntelliScribe are trademarks of A-Life Medical, Inc. L&H Voice Xpress is a trademark of Lernout & Hauspie. All other company, product, and service names are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks or service marks of other companies. |
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