Wolters Kluwer Health Announces Integration of its Clinical Interface Terminology Solutions with Henry Schein MicroMD’s EMR Platform
January 05, 2021 at 02:30 pm
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Wolters Kluwer Health announced that Henry Schein MicroMD, a practice management and electronic medical record (EMR) solution, will be using Health Language Clinical Interface Terminology (CIT) to quickly map over a million medical abbreviations, typos, incomplete terms, and acronyms to standardized terminology. As a result, clinicians using MicroMD can easily search for diagnoses and procedure codes using their own day-to-day jargon with Wolters Kluwer Health Language Provider-Friendly Terminology (PFT). Health Language PFT is built upon tools that deliver a computer-processable collection of medical terms providing codes, terms, synonyms and definitions used in clinical documentation and reporting, such as ICD-10-CM, ICD-9-CM, and SNOMED CT®. Sophisticated search algorithms convert a clinician’s problem or diagnosis search into a standard, compliant code using a continually updated array of related terms, including synonyms, misspellings, word order variants and partial words. For example, clinicians using MicroMD can search familiar clinical shorthand or jargon such as AFib, A-Fib, atrial fib, or AF and PFT will consistently provide the corresponding ICD or SNOMED CT codes for atrial fibrillation. For medical practices, PFT can improve clinical documentation, increase clinicians’ satisfaction with their EHR, support clinician productivity and reduce revenue losses associated with inaccurate or incomplete clinical documentation.
Henry Schein, Inc. specializes in the distribution of care products and services intended for health professionals (doctors, surgeons, dentists, veterinary laboratories and clinics). Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- distribution of health care products and equipment (93.5%): dental products and equipment (65.4% of net sales; consumable products, laboratory equipment, print materials, implants, anesthetics, etc.) and medical equipment (34.6%; medicines, vaccines, vitamins, surgical material, diagnostic tests, etc.);
- other (6.5%): sale and integration of management software, financial, training, maintenance and equipment repair services.
The United States account for 69.9% of net sales.Henry Schein, Inc. specializes in the distribution of care products and services intended for health professionals (doctors, surgeons, dentists, veterinary laboratories and clinics). Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- distribution of health care products and equipment (93.5%): dental products and equipment (65.4% of net sales; consumable products, laboratory equipment, print materials, implants, anesthetics, etc.) and medical equipment (34.6%; medicines, vaccines, vitamins, surgical material, diagnostic tests, etc.);
- other (6.5%): sale and integration of management software, financial, training, maintenance and equipment repair services.
The United States account for 69.9% of net sales.