Clarity™ Cornerstone:
Complete production application
for MLS professionals

Introduction to Spheris Clarity™ Cornerstone

Clarity™ Cornerstone, Spheris’ best-in-class production platform for medical language specialists (MLS), provides a one-stop solution for clinical documentation and validation while offering a personalized job management and text editor application for computer-aided transcription. It features integrated voice, text and patient demographics to optimize document creation via traditional dictation or back-end speech understanding.

Clarity Cornerstone is a flexible clinical documentation/transcription technology that tightly integrates into your documentation workflow and enables medical language specialists to work from anywhere. The Cornerstone application is a full-featured system with extensive document creation capabilities, an automated account specific rules engine and built-in QA functionality. The Spheris Clarity platform automatically prioritizes and routes dictations to transcription resources, in-house or outsourced, to ensure that turnaround times are met while minimizing costs.

Clarity Cornerstone Advantages:

  • Designed with the guidance of 5,500+ MLSs and HIM experts
  • Implementation of a unique voice-processing engine that emphasizes continuous speech understanding that adapts to different physician dictation styles and preferences to produce a meaningful clinical document.
  • Incorporation of an automated quality rules engine to ensure the application of account-specific instructions with minimal human intervention.
  • Automated quality tools to ensure consistent scoring and reporting of errors with a mechanism to provide timely feedback to medical language specialists, editors and auditors.

Clarity Cornerstone Features:

  • Full-featured: Comprehensive document creation application with many productivity-enhancing tools, including Shorthand, macros, and a regularly updated set of dictionaries.

  • MLS quality and production focused: Cornerstone incorporates proprietary tools and background functionality that allow the MLS to focus on the content of the text rather than formatting, account specific instructions, and other factors that reduce productivity and negatively impact quality. Users are notified with an audible signal when they receive a STAT or priority job in their queue.

  • Continuous Learning: The Spheris Cornerstone application incorporates continuous learning of the speech engine when edits are made to documents by users on any Spheris application, resulting in improved accuracy and completeness going forward.

  • ADT integration: Tight integration with ADT feed enables patient demographic information to be loaded with a job and automatically populated in the worktype template. MLSs can look up patient or physician information in real time if data is missing or incorrect.

  • Online collaboration: MLSs have the ability to request assistance from other team members through the online collaboration feature, sharing the voice and text from a specific job, resulting in fewer blanks and improved turnaround time for jobs that historically would be routed to quality assurance for assistance.

  • Dictation system support: The system is able to leverage either the Clarity Capture digital dictation system or other legacy dictation systems for physician dictation capture.

  • Support For Radiology/Orders Based Dictation: The Spheris Cornerstone application supports linking multiple accession numbers and orders, a workflow requirement for radiology, pathology and other departmental documentation.

  • Universal document and workflow manager: Dictation, transcription and access information is combined into a single multi-media document to improve patient data access and privacy control. Once the transcribed report is completed, the document is routed to the physician for online e-signature approval.

“When I became a medical transcriptionist, we were using tapes,” said Spheris Medical Language Specialist Marjorie Cheesman. “I’ve worked on several platforms at Spheris and elsewhere, and Cornerstone is far more user-friendly and productive. The quality of the reports coming from the speech understanding engine is great, and it increases my capacity as an MT.”