Spheris financial troubles is forcing a move
I just read an interesting article on Spheris. It appears they are being purchased by two competitive companies due to financial woes. Not sure what this means in terms of services.
Doctors Say Narrative Missing from Proposed EHR Regulations
Physicians are pushing the federal Health & Human Services Department to include physician narratives in the proposed regulations for electronic health records. Doctors use the narrative to expand on an assessment and offer subjective and objective evaluations of a case, as well as outline the treatment plan. Some doctors use speech recognition technology for their narratives in EHR systems. The public has 60 days to comment on the HHS regulations.
"No matter how good [EHR records] are, you'll never get the flavored nuance of the patient's [situation] if you don't have an unstructured note," said Dr. Steven Schiff, the medical director and service chief of cardiology at Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center, in Fountain Valley, Calif., in aneWEEK interview.
Trancriptionists use Instant Text with Emdat
I recently met Marianne Kleen from Textware Solutions at the AHDI meeting and she expressed how happy many medical transcriptionists were that they were able to use Instant Text within Emdat's InScribe typing platform. Marianne gave me this hyperlink to an excellent article. http://www.executivehm.com/article/Proven-Technology-for-Fast-Entry-Instant-Text/ Instant Text - is a great productivity tool used with Emdat's InScribe. Textware Solutions, developer and publisher of Instant Text, counts among its customers a large number of Emdat users happy to increase their productivity in the process of clinical documentation. While working in Emdat they can seamlessly utilize the knowledge base of their Instant Text glossaries that contain the medical words and phrases they have to deal with every day. The unique features of Instant Text allow them to have tens of thousands of words, drug names, phrases, addresses right at their fingertips with a few letters and without having to memorize any shortcut codes. Instant Text gives them the speed to keep up with the doctor's speech.
Emdat attending MTIA, AHDI and AHIMA in 2010
MTIA 2010
Emdat will be attending the Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA) national meeting in Daytona Beach, Florida, April 28th - May 1st, 2010.
AHDI 2010
Emdat will attend the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity 31st Annual Convention and Expo in Austin, TX, in 2010.
AHIMA 2010
Emdat will attend the American Health Information Management Association Convention and Exhibit in Orlando, FL, September 25–30, 2010.
Emdat Committed to Health Story Project
Emdat a Promoter of Health Story Project
Emdat, a world leader in online-based medical transcription software, is taking on a leadership role with the Health Story Project. Health Story develops and promotes standards that support the flow of information between narrative documents and electronic medical record systems (EMR ).
“As a provider of transcription software and data storage to thousands of medical transcription companies and healthcare providers around the globe, Emdat is well situated to provide meaningful insights for the critical work Health Story is doing,” said Randy Olver, Emdat CEO.
As part of advancing Health Story goals, Emdat leaders will provide strategic direction for the project, speak at industry events, serve as media spokespeople and continue sculpting its technologies in accordance with the project’s standards.
“Emdat’s direct commitment to Health Story supports further development of specifications for the transfer of information from narrative document types directly to EMR systems,” said Health Story executive committee member Nick van Terheyden, MD, Chief Medical Officer of M*Modal. “The efforts of companies like Emdat are further evidence of the industry’s readiness to make interoperability a fact of life and to support providers in achieving federal meaningful use requirements.”
Emdat developers work with EMR providers to ensure transcribed data is fluidly incorporated. Its mission is to provide medical transcription service organizations (MTSOs) and healthcare providers a fully managed software suite to collect, store and move data with no up-front software costs or maintenance fees.
Emdat Gold Member of MTIA
Emdat becomes Gold Member of MTIA
Emdat is proud to annouce its Gold membership in the Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA). As a MTIA Gold member, Emdat will be highly visible leader within the healthcare industry and an important contributor to national healthcare policy. MTIA is the world's largest association for medical transcription service organizations. It is a not-for-profit trade association serving the needs of medical transcription companies, vendors, and health information management professionals.
Randy Olver selected new CEO of Emdat
RANDY OLVER NAMED EMDAT CEO, WILL LEAD NEXT PHASE OF GROWTH FOR MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION SOLUTIONS PROVIDER
Fitchburg, WI (Nov. 5, 2009) – Emdat, a world leader in online-based medical transcription solutions, has tapped Randy Olver as its new CEO, effective immediately.
Emdat’s founding partners, who remain actively involved in the business, selected Olver to serve as CEO of the 10-year-old company. Steve Palmisano, one of the founders who had been CEO, will serve as president.
“Randy’s diverse business experience is exactly what we’ve been seeking to guide Emdat to the next level so that we can continue providing world-class transcription products and services to our clients,” Palmisano said. “We’ve tripled in size in the past five years and, looking forward, our business needs have grown dramatically.”
Emdat, which experienced double-digit growth during the difficult business environment of the past year, remains committed to its core business model of providing medical transcription service organizations (MTSOs) and healthcare providers a fully managed software suite to collect, store and move data with no up-front software costs or maintenance fees.
Olver, a commercial banking veteran who joined Emdat in February 2009 as a vice president, said upcoming years present a significant opportunity for the medical transcription industry. He said growth in electronic medical record (EMR) adoption and federal mandates make it more important than ever for medical notes and dictations to be integrated quickly and accurately.
“It’s a critical time for medical software and I am very confident in the ability of Emdat’s people and technology to evolve with industry changes and to set the pace for improvements,” Olver said. “There’s a heightened awareness within the medical community regarding ways that transcription software complements, rather than competes with, electronic medical records.”
Olver, a resident of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, earned a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and a MBA from DePaul University. He worked at US Bank for 17 years and was most recently a senior vice president managing Milwaukee’s National Corporate Banking group.
ABOUT EMDAT Emdat, Inc. (www.emdat.com), based in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, provides medical facilities and transcription service providers with flexible, seamless and cost-efficient solutions for fully managing medical transcription. Emdat provides one of the world’s leading transcription solutions serving more than 2,500 medical facilities throughout the United States and a network of hundreds of medical transcription companies around the globe.
CanScribe offers Medical Transcription training online
I had the pleasure of working next to Frank Takacs and Angie Lachman from CanScribe at the AHDI meeting in Nashville, TN. CanScribe offers the CanScribe Career Centre which places qualified medical transcriptionists who have completed their course curriculum. Additionally internship opportunities can be offered to MTSOs who want to try out the newly qualified MTs. The MTSOs can get up to 100 hours of free work from these MTs to make sure it is a good fit for both parties.
A Better Back offers relief for back and neck pain
I was talking with Claudia Rimoli at the AHDI meeting in Nashville, TN about her invention called A Better Back. Their lumbar support pillow offers both hot and cold therapy relief for neck and back ailments. I had a chance to try this out at the AHDI meeting and was very impressed with the results. If you suffer from some of these issues due to sitting for long periods of time you might give it a try.
Quick weight loss using Ideal Protein for syndrome X
Advanced coach Hazel Thompson spent some time with me at the AHDI meeting in Nashville covering this weight loss method. Her clinic, Living Well Weight Loss treats men and women needing to lose weight and retrain their bodies for effective weight loss. The protocol retrains your pancreas to maintain the weight loss after the diet is finished. If you might be interested in further information please visit Ideal Protein and ask for Hazel "The Coach."
