GE Healthcare Joins with M*Modal to Deliver Next Generation of Radiology Reporting Technology

SEATTLE, WA, SIIM 2008, May 15, 2008 -- GE Healthcare IT, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) and a leading provider of clinical, financial and administrative information technology solutions, today announced a partnership agreement with M*Modal, a leading provider of advanced speech understanding solutions, to deliver the next generation of radiology reporting technology. The announcement was made at the 2008 Annual Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) Conference being held May 15-18 in Seattle, WA.

With the aim to transition the industry from speech recognition to speech understanding, the agreement will incorporate M*Modal’s advanced speech technology, AnyModal™ Conversational Documentation Services (CDS), as part of GE’s Centricity RIS-IC Reporting module. The solution will aim to benefit physicians and radiologists with higher process efficiency, more accurate clinical documentation and dictation without changes in workflow. In addition, the technology is designed to continually learn, so the more it is used, the more accurate it becomes.

source: GE Healthcare