The week of May 20th through May 26th is Medical Transcription Week, which was established by President Ronald Regan. According to the American Transcription Association President Regan recognized the value and importance of medical transcriptionists and thus established National Medical Transcriptionist Week on May 21, 1985. President Regan realized how common it was becoming for [...]
It’s Medical Transcription Week – What’s the Future for the Industry?
May 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
WebChartMD Webinar Helps Medical Transcription Companies Overcome Business Losses Due to EHRs
May 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
WebChartMD, a provider of web-based clinical documentation workflow solutions, has launched a series of free webinars designed to assist medical transcription companies adapt to market changes resulting from electronic health records, or EHRs. “The process of documenting patient visits has changed dramatically in the last eight years as a result of the introduction of EHRs, [...]
Nuance Closes on Acquisition of Transcend
April 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Nuance Communications, Inc. has announced that they have closed their previously announced acquisition of Transcend Services, Inc., a provider of medical transcription and speech editing services. The companies claim the combination of Nuance and Transcend will significantly improve the way patient data is captured, processed and used across the small- to mid-size hospital market, which [...]
WebChartMD, Pacific Medical Centers Complete Partial Dictation Interface to EHR
April 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
WebChartMD has announced the implementation of a more time and cost-effective technique for generating clinical documentation for Pacific Medical Centers (PMC), in Seattle, WA. The technique, called partial dictation, allows PMC’s healthcare providers to use functionality within the Epic EHR to generate some sections of the patient note while dictating other sections. The end result [...]
Nuance to Acquire Transcend Services
March 7, 2012 By 1 Comment
Nuance Communications, Inc. and Transcend Services, Inc. have announced a definitive agreement for Nuance to acquire Transcend, a provider of medical transcription and speech editing services, for approximately $300 million, net, in cash. With Transcend, Nuance will accelerate access to and expand its customer base within the small- to mid-size hospital market, which comprises approximately [...]
iMedX Announces Acquisition of the Medical Transcription Assets of The Inner Office Ltd.
March 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
iMedX Inc., a leading healthcare software and services company, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of the medical transcription assets from The Inner Office Ltd.. With this acquisition, iMedX adds TIO’s many clinics, hospitals, and surgery centers, primarily in Ohio to its customer base. As a result of this acquisition, iMedX will benefit [...]
BayScribe Announces Partnership With SOAP Transcription
February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
BayScribe has announced the successful deployment of the BayScribe Clinical Documentation System (CDS) with SOAP Transcription in Wayland, MI to service Hospitals and clinics with superior clinical documentation tools, including creating Structured Data for Meaningful Use. SOAP Transcription is a leading U.S. medical transcription services provider and BayScribe, the industry’s first comprehensive Clinical Documentation Solution [...]
MedQuist Holdings Becomes M*Modal
January 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
