Indxit Systems Selects ScanSoft OmniPage Capture SDK from Nuance for InDxLogic GE Centricity Automated Document Indexing Service
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Tuesday October 3, 8:00 am ET
Leading OCR Toolkit Selected for InDxLogic Application to Automate the Indexing of Patient and Document Data for GE Centricity EMR; Significantly Lowers Document Management Labor Costs, Reduces Turnaround time
BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nuance Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today announced that Indxit Systems, Inc. has selected the ScanSoft® OmniPage® Capture SDK to integrate automated document indexing within its InDxLogic solution for the GE Centricity EMR. The ScanSoft OmniPage Capture SDK is the world's leading solution for rapidly adding scanning, optical character recognition (OCR) and PDF capabilities to both commercial and in-house applications, delivering an unrivaled combination of accuracy and robust features to a wide range of applications.
Today, healthcare organizations are inundated with paper documents from a variety of disparate sources - emails, faxes, forms, handwritten notes, patient questionnaires, etc. - and the information within those documents is unstructured. This unstructured data presents a challenge to healthcare organizations that are working with electronic medical record (EMR) systems such as the GE Centricity EMR, in that the data must be manually indexed in order to be entered into the EMR. Indxit Systems, through its product line InDxLogic, is automating this process by leveraging the award-winning OCR within the ScanSoft OmniPage Capture SDK to quickly index this unstructured data from paper and other data sources, significantly lowering labor costs and boosting productivity.
"InDxLogic is an automated indexing service that requires no document preprocessing such as bar codes or separator sheets. Where document scanning is involved, our core matching algorithms depend on the OCR content that we are able to extract from image sources." said Michael Ebaugh, founder, Indxit Systems. "When it came to selecting a partner for the OCR and indexing piece of our solution, Nuance was the obvious choice. The OmniPage Capture SDK is the most accurate and easy-to-use toolkit that we have found, and it's a perfect fit for our InDxLogic application."
InDxLogic was developed for the GE Centricity EMR to manage document images using Nuance's OCR technology combined with Indxit Systems' search and string pattern matching techniques. With InDxLogic, the user simply scans a document, and that document is then submitted to a Remote Indexing Network (RIN) client application. The scanned document is processed leveraging the powerful OCR in the ScanSoft OmniPage Capture SDK, and the recognized content is matched against a reference database. A structured message of the document (HL7) is generated and returned to the EMR to be filed according to patient, document type and document content.
"The InDxLogic application is a perfect example of how our recognition technologies are being applied in the healthcare market to not only dramatically reduce costs and increase productivity, but also to ease the move towards electronic medical records" said Robert Weideman, senior vice president, Productivity Applications Division, Nuance. "We've made it easy with our OmniPage Capture SDK for organizations to apply the industry's most powerful OCR to tackle the piles of unstructured data locked in paper and electronic files that have been a real hurdle for the healthcare market in particular." |
