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Nuance November 2018, Volume 8, Number 11  
 

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In this edition of eTips, you will find information about:

eTip 1: Searching for custom words added or deleted from the Language Models.

eTip 2: Checking if dictators are successfully going through ACO and LMO.

eTip 3: Manually categorizing procedure codes in the administrator portal.

eTip 4: Searching the Nuance Healthcare Community new knowledge articles.

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This month's eTips

eTip 1

Did you know that you can search and see which custom words have been added to or deleted from the Language Models?

As a system administrator adding custom words to your language models can improve speech recognition. Adding words at the system level eliminates the need for providers to add the words themselves using the vocabulary editor.

Words can be added at the system level individually or using a list to import multiple words from a file.  Words can also be deleted from Language Models at the system level.  It is important to note that words that get added or removed from one Language Model do not affect other Language Models in the system. 

To Search for custom words in a language model, follow the procedure below on the PowerScribe® 360 Reporting Administrator Portal:

  1. In the Setup group, select the Speech tab.
  2. Select the language model.
  3. To see all the words in the selected language model, click All.
    OR
    Select a letter in the alphabet to see words beginning with that letter.
    OR
    Use any of the search criteria to find the word:
    • In the field to the right of Word Actions, type all or part of the word or its phonetic spelling.
    • From the Time Frame field, select the period of time in which the word was added, if you know it. Or, click Custom and enter a specific date range.
    • If you know which administrator acted on the word, select the Administrator from the drop-down list.
    • From the Word Actions drop-down list, you can select All to see all the words, select Additions to see words that were added, or select Deletions to see words that were
      deleted.

    Custom Words

  4. Click Search. Any words that meet the criteria appear in the list at the right. You can click on the Word, Spoken Form, or Date heading to sort the list by the selected column; click the column heading again to reverse the sort order.

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eTip 2

Did you know you can use the PowerScribe® 360 Reporting Administrator Portal to see if dictators are successfully going through ACO and LMO?

If a dictator reports that there are issues with recognition accuracy, one step that can be taken is to ensure ACO and LMO have completed successfully for that dictator's profile. 

To view an individual dictator’s ACO and LMO activity:

  1. In the Setup group, select the Accounts tab.
  2. Select the dictator whose LMO and ACO activity you want to view.
  3. Look at the lower-right portion of the dictator’s profile screen. You can see the last time a dictator was processed through ACO/LMO.

    ACO/LMO

To see a more granular view of all accounts that have processed through ACO and LMO:

  1. Log in to the PowerScribe® 360 Reporting Administrator Portal.
  2. On the menu bar, select Logs.
  3. On the menu bar, select ACO/LMO.
  4. From the Time Frame list, select the time interval.
  5. Click Search.

    ACO / LMO Time Frame

Everyone will not process ACO and LMO every time it is scheduled. Processing will depend on the amount of data collected and how much of that data is applicable to ACO or LMO.


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eTip 3

Did you know you can manually categorize procedure codes in the PowerScribe® 360 Reporting Administrator Portal?

If you need to categorize only a few codes, you can select a code through the PowerScribe® 360 Reporting Administrator Portal and categorize it manually.

To categorize procedure codes:

  1. Search for one or more procedure codes. In the Setup group, select the Procedures tab.
  2. Search for the code you want to edit. To narrow your results, use the search filters in the left portion of the window:
    • Site: From this drop-down list, select one or more sites.
    • Categorization: Choose Uncategorized, No Modality, No Anatomy, or All.
    • Mammography: Choose Set, Not Set, or All.
    • Bilateral: Choose Set, Not Set, or All.
    • Global RVU: Choose Set, Not Set, or All.
    • Usage: Choose Never, At least once, or All.
    • Look for: Type the first few letters of the procedure code, followed by an asterisk * (which acts as a wild-card character).

    These filters are additive, which means that if you select an item from more than one filter, both (or all) of the criteria will be considered, possibly reducing the number of results.

    • Modality and Anatomy lists: These two areas are separate from the filters mentioned above and have their own Search button. Make one or more selections to locate the procedure you want to edit. As shown in the note above, both these lists are additive as well.
  3. Click the Search link. The codes that meet your criteria appear in the list.
  4. From the search results list that appears, select the code, or codes, that you want to categorize.

    Categorize

    Select more than one code to assign the same modality and anatomy to multiple codes.

  5. Click the Categorize link. The Anatomy/Modality Assignment to Procedure dialog box opens.

    Anatomy/Modality Assignment to Procedure

  6. Make your selections from the Modality and/or Anatomy drop-down lists. (These lists are quite extensive; use the scroll bar to move through the entire list.)

    The items in the Modality and Anatomy lists come from the PowerScribe® 360 Reporting system.

  7. When finished, click Save to save your changes.


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eTip 4

Did you know that Nuance has improved the PowerScribe® 360 Version 4.0 Documentation launch pad article to provide an improved experience to better serve our customer needs?

The Nuance Support Team has been updating the V4.x documentation launch pad article to provide you an improved experience when searching for content from the Nuance Healthcare Community.

When you access the content from the new V4.0 article, you will notice that an extra click is required to get to the documents because you will be taken to separate knowledge articles for that content.

Each new knowledge article that is launched from the V4 article contains:

  • Article Number
  • Title/URL Name/Summary/Question/Answer
  • Link(s) to launch the document(s)
  • Publish date(s) for the document(s)
  • Attachment(s) of the listed document(s)

An example of the new knowledge article changes is noted below:

New Article Example

These reorganized articles are being implemented so that you will be able to more easily locate information, and also provide your input indicating whether the content was useful or not and associate the actual document / article to your support cases.

This feedback will be used to help us help you and improve our understanding of what information is used the most and is the most helpful.

As an alternative, you will also be able to search for an article, document or content directly from the search area without going through the launch pad article.

We look forward to your feedback, so we can continue to improve the knowledge management within the Nuance Healthcare Community.

We are currently working to provide the same experience for the V3.5 launch pad article. You can expect to see this updated in the very near future.

 

 

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What's new

To view an expanded What's New listing, by product version, please log in to the Nuance Healthcare Community, and search for and select any of the following Knowledge articles, and then click on the What's New link.

PowerScribe® 360 Reporting

  • Search 6389 for the What's New in v4.0
  • Search 5640 for the What's New in v3.5
  • Search 5663 for the What's New in v3.0
  • Search 5636 for the What's New in v2.5
  • Search 5632 for the What's New in v2.0

mPower

  • Search 5671 for What's New in mPower v3.2

ModLink

  • Search 6394 for ModLink User Documentation
 
 
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What's fixed

The following PowerScribe® 360 software has been released:

PowerScribe® 360 Reporting V4.0.1 Patch 2a US/UK (7.0.111.20)

The key defects fixed for this release are highlighted below:

  • Voice invoked AutoText places cursor at bottom of report instead of the first fill-in field.  If AutoText is invoked via mouse, keyboard or via Default AutoText/Procedure categorization, then behavior is as expected via the setting.
  • NOTE: The PS360 Client was updated with the latest PowerMic SDK v110.0.94.3.
  • In an AutoText with multiple fill-in fields, where one field contains the name of an AutoText dictated as a value, text dictated into a subsequent field may be inserted into the prior field incorrectly.
  • When attempting to perform an "Over the shoulder" signing using the "Shift-F12" key combination, the PS360 Client will receive an exception and close down.
  • Editors report 'choppy' or 'patchy' audio during playback of the Impression fill-in field of dictated report that is set to All-Caps.
  • The registry key EnableEnvironment is used to disable or enable the PS360 client Environment Logging on a workstation was not working due to a misspelling of the key EnableEnvironment.
  • When the user is prompted to change their password during the client login process, the previous password is still used when signing their reports during the current logged in session.
  • If an AutoText is voice called into a report as part of a longer utterance, and the AutoText contains a fill-in field marked as all-caps as the first item within the AutoText, the initial part of the utterance may be placed into the report as all-caps.

PowerScribe® 360 Reporting V4.0.1 Patch 2 US/UK (7.0.111.19)

The key defects fixed for this release are highlighted below:

  • The error "The specified file cannot be recognized as valid RadWhere or PowerScribe® shortcut" will occur when importing an AutoText XML file that contains AutoTexts assigned to folders. The XML file will contain the tag Name of Folder, which defines the folder the AutoText was assigned to.
  • The message "An unexpected error has occurred. Please notify support if the problem persists." is displayed when attempting to create a patient or order that already exists in the system. A more descriptive warning is now returned.
  • In RadPortal, any field that displays information that contains an "&" character will show up as "&".
  •  When selecting to delete a user's roaming profile from the Accounts view in RadPortal, the process does not occur due to no confirmation window appearing.
  • When the Dragon User password contains a carat character in it, the password will reset if additional changes are made and saved within the PS360 RadPortal->System->Configuration settings.
  • When importing an AutoText with fill-in fields containing many choices, random letters appear between the fill in fields, and regular text is missing letters or displaced.
  • When importing a multi-site AutoText containing sections with the same name across the sites, the import fails with a violation of Unique Key constraint exception will occur.
  • In the Physicians view in RadPortal, when importing users from a file that contains updated NPI values, does not get updated if the users already exist in the system.
  • When Epic receives an RTF result message from PS360 that contains a number list, sometimes the report in Epic shows a numbered list started and then immediately restarts again.
  • Apple notifications are not getting processed from PS360 v4.0.1 servers.
  • Added the "PendingSignature" parameter to the McKesson PACS integration for an output value property of "ReportStatus".

To view an expanded What's Fixed listing, by product version, please log in to the Nuance Healthcare Community, and search for and select any of the following Knowledge articles, and then click on the Release Notes link.

PowerScribe® 360 Reporting

  • Search 6389 for the v4.0 Release Notes
  • Search 5640 for the v3.5 Release Notes
  • Search 5663 for the v3.0 Release Notes
  • Search 5636 for the v2.5 Release Notes
  • Search 5632 for the v2.0 Release Notes

mPower

  • Search 5671 for the mPower Release Notes

ModLink

  • Search 6394 for ModLink Release Notes

Dragon Naturally Speaking (DNS)

  • Search 6389 for the DNS Release Notes

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Webinar series

To review a complete list of past PowerUser Webinars, visit the Diagnostics Professional Services Team: MEC - Customer Free Webinars site.

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Webinar Date Streaming Download
The Basics of AutoText 2/28/18
Presentation provides a demonstration of the basics of creating an AutoText from scratch, the different types of fields that can be utilized, and how a user can take advantage of this functionality. Also covered is the radiologist's workflow and report structure impacts, as well as some of the new features available in PowerScribe® 360 Reporting version 4.0.
Custom Fields and the Technologist Workflow
(Update of v4.0)
1/29/18
Presentation of custom fields and the Technologist workflow that includes the creation of custom fields, associating these fields with procedures, embedding the custom fields in AutoText and allowing a technologist to insert a value into these fields prior to the radiologist opening the report.
AutoText for Administrators 12/19/17
Presentation demonstrating how to manage AutoText in the PowerScribe® 360 Reporting application, such as importing, exporting, and basic troubleshooting topics you may encounter as an Administrator.
What's New in PowerScribe® 360 v4.0, for Administrators 9/25/17
Presentation demonstrating what's new in PowerScribe® 360 Reporting V4.0 for Administrators.
What's New in PowerScribe® 360 v4.0, for Providers 6/20/17
Presentation demonstrating what's new in PowerScribe® 360 Reporting V4.0 for Providers.
Unlocking the Mystery of AutoText Relevancy 4/24/17
Presentation of AutoText use of categorization or "relevancy". Presents the process of associating procedure codes to AutoText and what the impact is of their functionality.
Online Speech Recognition Tools 3/27/17
Presentation of the tools within PowerScribe® that can be used to improve a user's recognition of specific words, changing the way certain words are interpreted and see an almost immediate improvement while "online" using the PowerScribe® 360 application.
Audio/Visual Features to Improve Recognition 2/27/17
Presentation of audio and visual features that can be used to ensure a user is making the most out of PowerScribe® 360's voice recognition.
Management Reports 1/23/17
Several Management Reports are run in PowerScribe® 360 Admin Portal, including insights into the available information within the reports, why you may want to view and use them, and how you can benefit from them.

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What's new with Tina?

Tina is a Web Interactive Support tool available from the Nuance Healthcare Community to assist our PowerScribe® 360 customers with finding fast solutions to their common support questions.

Tina presents a web-centered, text-based user interface (UI) hosted on the Home page of the Nuance Healthcare Community. Tina offers a human-like, conversational approach when communicating with our customers, providing personalized, effortless, self-service support. Tina's intelligence increases to enhance the customer experience by constantly learning from dialoging with users.

In order to further improve our customers' experience, the PowerScribe® 360 Support Team continues to add additional content and optimize Tina's capabilities.

So, please continue to ask Tina your questions!

Press the play button on the following eTips video image for a brief demonstration on the operation of Tina.

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Nuance Healthcare Community

Nuance Healthcare Community

The Nuance Healthcare Community is an Internet-based support site with the following key benefits:

  • Network with your industry colleagues
  • Share experiences and best practices for using Nuance solutions
  • Provide feedback to Nuance about our solutions
  • Receive up-to-the-minute information from Nuance
  • Participate in roundtables and small-group events that provide access to Nuance leadership
  • Search knowledge articles
  • Log cases via the community
  • Interact with an agent through Live Chat

To become a member, click to begin your registration from the Nuance Healthcare Support page.

Available Resources on the Nuance Healthcare Community include:

Nuance Healthcare knowledge article updates:

A number of important articles have been added or reissued with updated information as follows:

  • 6359: eTips Newsletter Archives - PowerScribe® 360 Reporting
  • 6389: PowerScribe® 360 Reporting V4.0 Documentation

You can see a complete list of all the new articles in eTip 4.

To see the details of any article, simply log in to the Nuance Healthcare Community, and search for the knowledge article number or title.

 
 
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