Nuance deploys imaging e-ordering in Minnesota
The Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI), a nonprofit organization consisting of 60 medical groups and six sponsoring health plans across Minnesota and Wisconsin, has chosen Nuance Communications for its e-Ordering technology, RadPort.
The electronic, clinical decision support technology will be leveraged to support the statewide initiative in Minnesota, so patients only receive medically appropriate advanced diagnostic imaging exams (MRI, CT, PET and nuclear cardiology), and is expected to save the state healthcare community more than $28 million annually, stated the Burlington, Mass.-based company.
The decision follows a year-long pilot program, which found that the exams ordered with decision support technology by more than 2,300 physicians experienced an increase in medical appropriateness versus orders initiated without it, and the use of the decision support appropriateness criteria in the physician’s office reduced patient exposure to unnecessary radiation, Nuance added.
The electronic, clinical decision support technology will be leveraged to support the statewide initiative in Minnesota, so patients only receive medically appropriate advanced diagnostic imaging exams (MRI, CT, PET and nuclear cardiology), and is expected to save the state healthcare community more than $28 million annually, stated the Burlington, Mass.-based company.
The decision follows a year-long pilot program, which found that the exams ordered with decision support technology by more than 2,300 physicians experienced an increase in medical appropriateness versus orders initiated without it, and the use of the decision support appropriateness criteria in the physician’s office reduced patient exposure to unnecessary radiation, Nuance added.