MedQuist Holdings has announced the unification of the Company’s speech and language understanding technologies, medical transcription, coding, HIM professional services and analytics under the name M*Modal. Shares of the Company’s common stock will begin trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “MODL” on January 25, 2012. The Company will celebrate the launch [...]
VoiceHIT Announces Speech-Enabled Mobile Clinical Documentation Solution Powered by Nuance Healthcare
January 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
VoiceHIT, a New Orleans-based start-up, has launched a web-based smart electronic health record platform, called the Better Day™ EHR & Documentation Solution. Powered by Nuance Healthcare’s secure, cloud-based, medical speech recognition technology on iOS and Android-based mobile devices, the Better Day™ EHR empowers providers to document patient encounters in real-time via voice without the need [...]
Medical Transcription: Still A Versatile Tool for Hospitals beyond Managing Costs
January 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In a recession hit market as USA, even the medical industry, which is closely connected to the critical aspect of human life, is not less affected. Therefore, it is not strange to see clinics and hospitals in US resorting to cost cutting measures and going in for affordable outsourced services. Medical Transcription, the prerequisite for [...]
iMedX Announces Acquisition of Abacus Transcriptions Inc.
December 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
iMedX Inc., healthcare software and services company, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of assets from Abacus Transcriptions Inc. With this acquisition, iMedX adds Abacus’ many clinics and solo practitioners in the Houston, Texas area to its clinic customer base. As a result of this acquisition, iMedX will benefit from an expanded base [...]
AMIA Health Policy Meeting Addresses Shortcomings of Clinical Data Capture and Documentation
December 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
AMIA, the leading professional association for informatics professionals, concluded its 6th Annual Health Policy Meeting this week in Washington, DC. Meeting participants identified numerous limitations with existing data capture, recording and documentation approaches, systems and processes. As a result, users often experience significant frustrations such as data overload, documentation redundancies, and data entry inefficiencies. Furthermore, technological capabilities such as the [...]
me2me, AG to introduce the next generation of speech recognition technology at Medica 2011
November 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
me2me AG, the developers of the industry changing Frisbee Transcription Workflow & Dictation Solution with Speech Understanding announced today that they are participating and exhibiting in “Medica-2011”, a prestigious world renowned medical exhibition being held in Düsseldorf, Germany from November 16 through 19th. me2me, AG is taking this great opportunity to announce and demonstrate Frisbee Enterprise [...]
me2me Introduces New Digital Dictation Application for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
November 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
me2me AG, the developers of the Frisbee Transcription Workflow & Dictation Solution with Speech Recognition announced today that they release Frisbee Smartfor iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch®, a new app that turns the smartphone into a digital dictation device, making dictation available to all Frisbee solutions users but also to other professional digital dictation solutions. [...]
SynaMed Announces Partnership With StenTel to Facilitate ‘Meaningful Use by Dictation’
October 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Healthcare technology provider SynaMed, LLC is excited to announce a partnership with StenTel, a national transcription company and provider of clinical documentation solutions. This partnership will combine their platforms and allow healthcare providers to utilize advanced transcription services while benefiting from a Meaningful Use certified EMR. SynaMed provides medical practices with a turnkey electronic medical [...]
$264 Million Paid Out in Meaningful Use Incentive Money in August
September 15, 2011 By 1 Comment
According to a recent Government Health IT Article, there was a significant uptick in physician and hospital signups for participation in the meaningful use incentive programs in August. During the month there were an additional 13,000 providers that registered, representing a 30% increase in signups over the month of July. The updated total of registered [...]
Nuance Healthcare Awarded Best-in-KLAS for Medical Voice Recognition for Eighth Consecutive Year
Nuance Communications, Inc. has announced that it has been honored with a Best in KLAS award, ranking eScription, one of Nuance’s leading solutions for clinical documentation as #1 within the speech recognition category for the eighth consecutive year. The Nuance Healthcare portfolio holds multiple top-ranked positions within the 2011 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Services [...]