Wolters Kluwer Announces Integration of Its Clinical Natural Language Processing Solution With Henry Schein’s MicroMD EMR Platform

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Wolters Kluwer has announced that its Health Language clinical Natural Language Processing (cNLP) solution will be implemented in MicroMD, enhancing patient medical record reviews. This technology automates the extraction of clinically relevant data from unstructured text, significantly reducing manual review time and errors. With over 80% of healthcare information being unstructured, the integration aims to improve clinical documentation accuracy and patient outcomes through better access to data. The collaboration aims to enrich the clinical data available to healthcare providers.

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• Integration of Health Language cNLP enhances MicroMD's functionality.
• Automates the extraction of data from unstructured text, reducing human error.
• Improves patient outcomes by providing more complete health insights.
• Enriches clinical data accessibility for practitioners.

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• None.

Latest integration from Wolters Kluwer enables clinicians to unlock the value of unstructured clinical information for more complete patient insights

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Wolters Kluwer, Health announced today that MicroMD®, Henry Schein Medical Systems’ practice management and electronic medical record (EMR) solution, will implement the Health Language clinical Natural Language Processing (cNLP) solution to help accelerate and optimize patient medical record review. By extracting clinically relevant data locked in unstructured text, such as medical history and free-form notes, Health Language cNLP helps enable clinicians to glean a more complete picture of a patient’s health which can drive better outcomes.

Industry estimates suggest that more than 80% of valuable healthcare information is locked in unstructured text¹, requiring manual review of each patient record that contributes to increased risk of human error, time and cost. Health Language cNLP helps to mitigate these challenges by automating the review of unstructured data, extracting clinically relevant information, codifying information to broadly understood industry standards, and mapping information to a patient’s record.

“The need to capture medical decision-making, combined with new coding requirements, often lead to a narrative-intensive documentation process, generating a trove of critical medical information buried in free text, such as medical history, progress notes, as well as imaging and laboratory narratives. With Health Language cNLP, important insights from these notes can be captured much more efficiently, which can improve patient outcomes,” said Michael Casamassa, Vice President, Solutions at Henry Schein who oversees Henry Schein Medical Systems, a subsidiary of Henry Schein, Inc. “We’re excited to build on our relationship with Wolters Kluwer to enrich the breadth and quality of the clinical data that clinicians using MicroMD can now access to better serve their patients.”

Health Language cNLP uses a proprietary library of more than one million provider-friendly terms including clinical synonyms, abbreviations, acronyms, and common misspellings. This vast scope captures innumerable variations of text notations entered in a patient record by doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners and assistants. Capturing vital patient insights helps practitioners make educated decisions about the unique needs of each patient, helping them deliver high-quality, comprehensive patient care across care teams.

“We are proud to expand our collaboration with Henry Schein to help practices and health centers maximize the value of MicroMD,” said Karen Kobelski, vice president and general manager of Clinical Surveillance Compliance & Data Solutions at Wolters Kluwer, Health. “We look forward to further supporting their efforts to help improve clinical productivity and enhance care for patients by making it easy to fully access, search and analyze vast amounts of information from a growing number of disparate sources.”

This is the latest integration of Wolters Kluwer’s Health Language technology in Henry Schein’s MicroMD practice management and electronic medical record. The organization implemented Wolters Kluwer’s Clinical Interface Terminology solution in January 2021 with the goal of helping clinicians improve clinical documentation accuracy with smarter problem and diagnosis searches.

For more information about MicroMD, visit www.micromd.com, or call 330-758-8832.

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About Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer (WKL) is a global leader in professional information, software solutions, and services for the clinicians, nurses, accountants, lawyers, and tax, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and regulatory sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with advanced technology and services.

Wolters Kluwer reported 2020 annual revenues of €4.6 billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs approximately 19,200 people worldwide. The company is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands.

Wolters Kluwer provides trusted clinical technology and evidence-based solutions that engage clinicians, patients, researchers and students in effective decision-making and outcomes across healthcare. We support clinical effectiveness, learning and research, clinical surveillance and compliance, as well as data solutions. For more information about our solutions, visit https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/health and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @WKHealth.

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¹Voorham J, Denig P. Computerized extraction of information on the quality of diabetes care from free text in electronic patient records of general practitioners. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2007;14:349–354

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FAQ

What is the integration announced by Wolters Kluwer and MicroMD?

Wolters Kluwer announced the implementation of its Health Language clinical Natural Language Processing (cNLP) solution into MicroMD to improve patient medical record reviews.

How does the Health Language cNLP solution benefit healthcare providers?

The Health Language cNLP solution automates the extraction of clinically relevant data from unstructured text, improving clinical documentation accuracy and patient outcomes.

What percentage of healthcare information is unstructured according to industry estimates?

Industry estimates suggest that more than 80% of valuable healthcare information is locked in unstructured text.

What are the expected outcomes of the integration for clinicians using MicroMD?

The integration is expected to provide clinicians with a more complete picture of patient health, leading to better decision-making and improved patient care.

When was the previous integration of Clinical Interface Terminology solution implemented by Wolters Kluwer?

The Clinical Interface Terminology solution was implemented in January 2021.