Commissure Radwhere⢠For Radiology
P R o d U C T S h e e T
Commissure RadWhere™ for Radiology
Structured Reporting, Workflow Orchestration, Peer Review,
Data Capture, Integrated Content and Communication Tools
RadWhere™ for Radiology Workstation —
Key Benefits
Multi-site, Robust Data-Driven “Once and Done”
Improves multi-site workflow
Structured Reporting
Simplifies peer review process
CHALLENGE:
Automates manual processes
How can i provide my radiologists a single unified work
Reduces turnaround time
list, create structured reports, efficiently capture report
Connects to radiology content
data, and integrate clinical content and communication
Audits critical communications
tools into the reporting process?
Maintains productive anywhere
SOLUTION:
RadWhere for Radiology is the #1 choice of academic
Key Features
centers, hospitals, and imaging centers with unique
Supports LDAP authentication
workflow, data-driven reporting, and communication needs.
Seamless multi-PACS/multi-RIS integration
RadWhere for Radiology is a front-end speech recognition
Integrated ACR-compliant peer review
solution that provides workflow productivity tools that improve
Procedure code mappings for auto-loading
the day-to-day tasks of everyone involved in the interpretation
macros
and delivery of diagnostic imaging exams: the referring
Voice-driven navigation, editing, and signoff
physician, technologist, radiologist and administrator.
Voice-driven patient and order notes
at the core of the RadWhere for Radiology application is the
Access to prior reports and RIS data
latest in structured speech recognition technology optimized
Annotated “chat sessions” between users
specifical y for the radiology domain. RadWhere for Radiology
Custom data capture and extraction
goes beyond speech recognition, of ering numerous dictation
Integrated critical test results management
options to meet the unique needs of every radiologist in
option
your department. Users may complete reports with free text
recognition, standard site macros, individual radiologist macros,
System safeguards and user customization
RadWhere for Radiology Smart Templates and findings-only
Web-based administrative management
dictation. RadWhere even lets radiologists jump between styles
within the same report.
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User-specific roles allow for customized workflow that meets
Supports All Dictation Styles
your department’s needs. academic facilities will appreciate
RadWhere for Radiology offers four dictation styles to
its ease-of-use with resident, attending and fellow accounts.
accommodate physician preferences:
Managing resident-attending workflow and capturing
contributor data for tracking read out sessions has never been
Real-Time Speech Recognition with Self Editing.
easier. assigning administrators, technologists, and front desk
“once and done” real-time speech recognition allows
specialists helps in supporting of workflow related tasks.
radiologists to view text as it is dictated. They can edit using
keyboard, mouse, and standard word processing tools,
RadWhere for Radiology fits the active lifestyle of today’s
or with voice editing—voice commands and microphone
practicing radiologist. With access via .NeT 2.0 technology,
controls to navigate and correct the document. Radiologists
users can remotely connect without compromising
also have the option of hands-free dictation—using a USB
functionality or processing speed. Reporting from a remote
headset and foot pedal. The software immediately recognizes
location is simple with VPN access satisfying all hiPaa-
spoken changes and additions anywhere in the report.
compliant encryption protocols.
Real-Time Speech Recognition with Auto-Loading
Designed to Orchestrate Workflow
Macros. This of ers radiologists the ability to maximize
efficiency. Templates are categorized/mapped to procedure
RadWhere for Radiology offers industry-leading radiology
codes and trigger by modifiers such as age and gender.
workflow management. designed to address the needs of
auto-loading normals are established for every exam which
healthcare networks with multiple RiS, PaCS, 3d, and teleradiology
accommodates site-wide structured defaults and/or individual
systems, RadWhere™ Workflow Orchestrator seamlessly
defaults. Users can voice navigate standard text blocks which
integrates these elements into a single work list for the radiologist.
are ful y voice editable.
Through the use of unrestricted Boolean logic and
Real-Time Speech Recognition with Auto-Structured
departmental user groups, RadWhere for Radiology can
Reporting. This eliminates the need for the radiologist to
launch an unlimited number of legacy and web-based PaCS
fol ow the structured format of a macro. Natural language
viewers while intelligently returning orders to the appropriate
understanding (NLU) and processing algorithms automatical y
RiS system from a single workstation.
structure positive report content. The radiologist dictates
RadWhere also provides substantial benefits for facilities that
the necessary abnormal statements and the RadWhere for
do not need the robust capabilities of multi-system workflow
Radiology applications logic assigns individual findings to
management. it drives RiS/PaCS workflow in a single
the appropriate report fields. once complete, the application
environment or can allow a third party system to handle order
presents the interpreting radiologist with a final report for
lists, routing, editing and electronic signature workflow.
review and edit. This intel igent phrase recognition and
automatic organization tool can greatly reduce the time spent
using conventional structured macros.
“RadWhereforRadiologyisanexcellentproduct,notonlybecauseithasexcellent
recognition,butalsobecauseitprovidesafullcomplementofservicesaroundthevoicerecognition
tosupportwhatIdo.”
–Andrew Litt, MD
Chief of Staff and Associate Professor
NYU Medical Center
New York, NY
solutions for healthcare
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Real-Time Speech Recognition with Transcriptionist
with instantaneous access to disease details, anatomy,
Editing. a combination of front-end speech recognition
differential diagnoses, radiology and anatomy e-books,
with transcription workflow and editing, it may be used in
medical image searches, internet content, radiology search
conjunction with any of the above reporting styles.
engines, annotated anatomical atlases, and more. in addition
to standard content, third-party integration supports direct
Custom Data Capture and Extraction
access to additional resources. for example, integration with
amirsys® STaTdx™ provides an additional content offering.
RadWhere for Radiology offers easy access to radiologist-
driven custom data entry as well as web-based technologist
Integrated Critical Communications
data entry.
RadWhere for Radiology integrates Vocada Veriphy™
RadWhere for Radiology’s web-based technologist portal
CTRM directly into the reporting process to provide a user-
allows for data capture, which can be linked to a patient and
friendly enterprise communication system for critical test
automatically merged during the radiologist’s dictation. for
results management. This system eliminates the need for
example, a technologist can enter data relating to radiation
the radiologist to pick up a telephone and call a referring
dose values for a particular patient. When the order is retrieved
clinician. The reporting application automatically populates the
by a radiologist and opened, the predefined values are
appropriate data and audio is captured directly from within the
automatically inserted into a standard report macro, requiring
application. The recorded findings are delivered to the referring
only the radiologist’s dictation to be added.
physician and a JCaho-compliant confirmation receipt is
created. individual user and administrator management round
RadWhere for Radiology’s client workstation interface allows
out this tightly integrated critical communication component.
the radiologist to enter custom values for later extraction and
analysis. for example, a radiologist may want to flag teaching
cases, clinical trials, or record data relating to technologist Qa
Advanced Support for Customization
and image quality.
Radiologists can customize vocabulary, dictation preferences,
report styles, macros, layouts, shortcuts, and more.
Integrated Context-Aware Clinical Content
administrators can customize management options, site-defined
rules, system workflow, peer review validations, exception/
RadWhere for Radiology offers integrated radiology
communication log tracking, and system protocols.
knowledge with automated context aware searching.
information is delivered via natural language understanding
RadWhere for Radiology
Vocada
Peer
Veriphy™
Review
RIS A
PACS A
Referring
RadWhere Workflow
RIS B
PACS B
Physician
Orchestration/Reporting
RIS C
Advanced
Visualization
Integrated
Clinical
Content
solutions for healthcare
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Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions
Fits Your Workflow, Integration, and Data Reporting Needs
Commissure RadPort™ for Radiology—A secure, web-based
RadWhere for Radiology offers integration into your existing
decision support application for appropriate diagnostic image order
radiology workflow, from a single multi-site worklist to
entry that satisfies pre-certification requirements.
automated structured reporting to voice driven navigation,
Commissure RadWhere™ for Radiology—A data-driven, front-end
structured speech recognition reporting application designed for multi-
editing, and electronic signature. a shared hL7 data stream
site workflow orchestration.
eases the process of analyzing data, performing trend analysis,
Commissure RadCube™ for Radiology—A comprehensive, yet
and measuring exam productivity.
flexible, data warehouse for multidimensional business analysis and
visualization.
hL7 interfaces to leading PaCS/RiS vendors means all
Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® Medical—A front-end
order information is delivered to RadWhere for Radiology
real-time speech recognition program that works with
and consolidated into a single worklist. after selecting an
virtually any Windows®-based EMR system for efficient report
order from the unified worklist, the data is pulled from the
completion, and easy navigation and adoption of the EMR.
appropriate RiS, images are launched on the appropriate
Enterprise Workstation®—A front-end browser-based solution that
offers physicians flexible input and editing options, to reduce report
PaCS, and RadWhere for Radiology-dictated reports are
turnaround time and the costs associated with transcription.
uploaded back to the appropriate RiS system.
Enterprise Express® Products—Dictation, transcription and back-end
speech recognition solutions that offer some of the most sophisticated
The RadWhere for Radiology database is fully integrated with
technology and advanced editing capabilities. EXSpeech® is a key
the RadCube™ for Radiology data mining and analysis
option, which recognizes physicians’ dictation and routes it to a
tools. RadCube is a powerful, yet easy-to-use radiology-
transcriptionist for final editing.
specific reporting and analysis platform which enables users
iChart® Managed Services—A flexible ASP solution that integrates
world-class speech assisted transcription services and advanced speech
to create customized queries and visualize the results using
recognition technology to meet each organization’s unique document
charts and graphs with no programming skills needed. The
completion needs.
RadWhere for Radiology database is automatically exported
PowerScribe® for Radiology—A web-based, front-end speech
to an oLaP cube ready for analysis. a number of predefined
recognition solution that can help radiology departments significantly
projects are included (patient/exam metrics, report metrics,
reduce report turnaround time and lower transcription costs by as much as
75%-100% a year.
productivity metrics, template statistics, exact findings),
PowerScribe® for Pathology—A front-end web-enabled workstation
providing access to a wide variety of queries.
designed with special pathology-specific features for efficient hands-
free reporting—from gross description through electronic signature.
RadWhere for Radiology represents the next step in the
Vocada Veriphy™—A critical test results management solution that
expansion of the dictaphone family of radiology solutions, of ering
enhances patient care, increases physician productivity, improves risk
multi-site, multi-RiS/PaCS workflow in a closed loop environment.
management and automates compliance.
About Dictaphone
dictaphone healthcare Solutions is a division of Nuance
Communications, inc., the world’s leading provider of speech
Powered by LEXIMER. Lexicon Mediated Entropy Reduction
and imaging solutions. Today, dictaphone provides the most
(LEXIMER) is a patented Natural Language Processing (NLP)
engine designed for the medical imaging domain. LEXIMER
comprehensive family of speech-driven clinical documentation
provides data mining algorithms which extract, structure,
solutions available anywhere. our vision is to accelerate the
and classify unstructured radiology report text in real-time
adoption of eMR systems, helping providers maximize the
as wel as via batch processing.
return on their technology investments.
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