Intelligent Medical Objects Announces New Release of IMO® Problem (IT) Includes Diagnostic Terminology and Coding for Swine Flu
Chicago, IL, May 02, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO®) announces that the latest release of IMO® Problem IT™, that shipped out today on April 28th, 2009, contains terms for swine flu, with the appropriate maps to ICD-9-CM, ICD-10-CA and ICD-10-WHO, and SNOMED® CT. Users of all EMR/EHR systems enabled with IMO® Problem IT™ that update to this release will have immediate access to these new additions. The quick availability is a testimony to IMO’s ability to rapidly deploy new terminology to their clients for all of its Clinical Interface Terminology (CIT) family of products.
“Given its potential for severe illness and rapid spread, the worldwide swine flu outbreak requires a swift response. We quickly mobilized to add swine flu terms with the appropriate coding to this release so that clinicians who encounter patients with swine flu can document this illness with the right level of detail without delay” says Dr. Amy Wang, Chief Medical Officer of IMO.
“Proper documentation and reporting are essential in the fight against an infectious disease outbreak. We are glad to be able to offer tools that will help our medical user community respond to this epidemic.”
Medical knowledge is changing every day, and IMO is continually updating its content to reflect these changes, especially those that are reported and requested by IMO’s large community of clinical users. “IMO is committed to delivering ten updates of Problem IT™ per year to our clients and EMR vendor partners so that the latest updates are available to clinicians. We also are recommending that our vendors start deploying our portal solutions,” states Mr. Regis Charlot EVP of IMO. “The portal deployment and updates are immediate, occur between regular releases, and remove the massive overheads associated with normal data distributions and deployments” explains Mr. Charlot. “We have received nothing but great reviews regarding the ease of deployment and consistency in searches” says Mr. Jose Maldonado, IMO’s Vocabulary Product Manager.
As a care delivery organization you should ask your vendor EHR/EMR vendors partners how often they update the diagnostic and problem list look-up table. , This is the most important table in your electronic medical record that is used by clinicians to to communicate their final assessments of patient visits. If they say once per year then you may have real cause for concern, since your physician will not be able to communicate your diagnosis correctly and at the right level of specificity. “It is amazing how many EMR implementations are ignoring this very fundamental requirement and wonder why the physicians are not adopting their applications. We at IMO are committed to developing tools and technologies that help EMR vendors deliver applications that support problem-solving for their clinicians” explains Dr Frank Naeymi-Rad, IMO’s CEO.
IMO® Problem IT™ can be readily implemented in most EMR/EHR systems from any vendor. To understand how easy portal deployment can be in your application, please visit their website “How the Portal Works” at http://www.e-imo.com/products/problem_IT_portal/how_it_works.aspx.
About IMO
Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO®) develops, manages, and licenses medical vocabularies, as well as health care software applications that utilize the medical vocabularies. IMO's Clinical Interface Terminology products, including IMO® Problem IT™, provides seamless mapping of diagnostic terminologies to billing codes and medical concepts. IMO provides the tools necessary for health care organizations to authoritatively support uniform labeling of health profiles, services rendered, and outcomes across their enterprise. This intersection of clinical and financial data provides health care organizations with dependable quality information to deliver services, bear risk, and to enable efficient, cost-effective operation and accountability. IMO's products improve physician satisfaction, facilitate physician adoption, speed the coding process, reduce unnecessary physician-coder communication, and result in fewer rejected claims.
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“Given its potential for severe illness and rapid spread, the worldwide swine flu outbreak requires a swift response. We quickly mobilized to add swine flu terms with the appropriate coding to this release so that clinicians who encounter patients with swine flu can document this illness with the right level of detail without delay” says Dr. Amy Wang, Chief Medical Officer of IMO.
“Proper documentation and reporting are essential in the fight against an infectious disease outbreak. We are glad to be able to offer tools that will help our medical user community respond to this epidemic.”
Medical knowledge is changing every day, and IMO is continually updating its content to reflect these changes, especially those that are reported and requested by IMO’s large community of clinical users. “IMO is committed to delivering ten updates of Problem IT™ per year to our clients and EMR vendor partners so that the latest updates are available to clinicians. We also are recommending that our vendors start deploying our portal solutions,” states Mr. Regis Charlot EVP of IMO. “The portal deployment and updates are immediate, occur between regular releases, and remove the massive overheads associated with normal data distributions and deployments” explains Mr. Charlot. “We have received nothing but great reviews regarding the ease of deployment and consistency in searches” says Mr. Jose Maldonado, IMO’s Vocabulary Product Manager.
As a care delivery organization you should ask your vendor EHR/EMR vendors partners how often they update the diagnostic and problem list look-up table. , This is the most important table in your electronic medical record that is used by clinicians to to communicate their final assessments of patient visits. If they say once per year then you may have real cause for concern, since your physician will not be able to communicate your diagnosis correctly and at the right level of specificity. “It is amazing how many EMR implementations are ignoring this very fundamental requirement and wonder why the physicians are not adopting their applications. We at IMO are committed to developing tools and technologies that help EMR vendors deliver applications that support problem-solving for their clinicians” explains Dr Frank Naeymi-Rad, IMO’s CEO.
IMO® Problem IT™ can be readily implemented in most EMR/EHR systems from any vendor. To understand how easy portal deployment can be in your application, please visit their website “How the Portal Works” at http://www.e-imo.com/products/problem_IT_portal/how_it_works.aspx.
About IMO
Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO®) develops, manages, and licenses medical vocabularies, as well as health care software applications that utilize the medical vocabularies. IMO's Clinical Interface Terminology products, including IMO® Problem IT™, provides seamless mapping of diagnostic terminologies to billing codes and medical concepts. IMO provides the tools necessary for health care organizations to authoritatively support uniform labeling of health profiles, services rendered, and outcomes across their enterprise. This intersection of clinical and financial data provides health care organizations with dependable quality information to deliver services, bear risk, and to enable efficient, cost-effective operation and accountability. IMO's products improve physician satisfaction, facilitate physician adoption, speed the coding process, reduce unnecessary physician-coder communication, and result in fewer rejected claims.
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