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.

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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.

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Congratulations to Bobby Powers and eMedDox for launching their new web site. Bobby has been a partner of Emdat's for quite some time now and has put together some creative marketing ideas to get his message out to the industry. Best of luck Bobby!

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For Immediate Release

January XX, 2007

EMDAT Selects M*Modal to Provide

Speech Recognition to It’s Customers

Integrated Speech Understanding Improves Productivity and Operational Efficiencies in Medical Dictation & Transcription Processes

PITTSBURGH, PA, January XX, 2007 – Emdat, Inc. a leading national provider of transcription work flow and management solution M*Modal, a leader in on-demand, speech understanding services, have entered into an agreement that is expected to elevate Emdat’s competitiveness in the marketplace. This partnership leads to an integration of M*Modal’s proprietary speech understanding technology into Emdat’s hosted medical transcription platform and will enable Emdat to provide its clients with the leading edge transcription technology that covers the entire cycle of health care documentation – from capture of physician dictation to publishing of final medical reports.

Emdat is pleased to offer the AnyModal CDS product to their ever expanding dictation and transcription business. Steve Palmisano, CEO of Emdat says, “M*Modal’s AnyModal CDS complements the Emdat process because physicians can be added at anytime and do not need to be aware that speech understanding technology is being used in the transcription process. Due to the fact that over 32,000 clinicians and over 1,300 medical facilities currently use Emdat we had to be very careful in our choice for the best available speech understanding technology.”

Emdat’s platform used for dictation and transcription will integrate M*Modal’s back end speech technology that will be incorporated into the transcription work flow process. The new process requires no physician participation or training. The new tool empowers physicians to capture medical facts and orders from dictation, without requiring any change to their normal documentation routine. Our feeling is that a significant percentage of the 7,000 transcriptionists using our system will transition into an editor’s role when speech understanding is deployed. Palmisano says, “We choose M*Modal because everything we do needs to have a positive effect in productivity, quality or cost - and this appears to be a home run.”

Michael Finke, Chairman, CEO and founder of M*Modal comments, “Our relationship with Emdat expands the reach of AnyModal CDS, making it available to hundreds of transcription service providers and health care organization who use Emdat’s hosted transcription platform. Our objective is to provide these organizations with the best available speech recognition based technology that is fully integrated into their work flow, transparent to the speaker and that transforms the clinical documentation process. The result is a combined solution from Emdat which without requiring any change to the physician’s work flow or dictation routine and makes the process of medical transcription significantly more efficient - while also delivering documents which capture the narrative along with the clinical facts contained therein in structured and encoded form.”

About Emdat

Emdat’s dictation and transcription platform, based on an ASP model, is being used by over 130 transcription companies. Emdat was architected to improve the process flow of dictation and transcription by using a suite of web based applications. These applications are used by physicians, transcription companies, transcriptionists and medical facilities to better manage work flow. Emdat helps facilities reduce costs, meet HIPAA requirements and improve productivity by providing electronic access 24/7 from anywhere. Emdat is based out of Chicago, IL.

For more information, please contact bh@emdat.com or 1-866-GO EMDAT. www.emdat.com.

About M*Modal

M*Modal offers on-demand conversational documentation services (CDS) that help health care providers to capture discrete clinical information from dictation to generate complete and timely electronic medical records. The company’s unique speech recognition and understanding technology platform, AnyModal CDS, is a vital tool that empowers physicians to capture clinical facts and orders from dictation without requiring any change to their normal dictation routine. M*Modal's focus is on providing hospitals, MTSO’s and HIM companies with the industry's most comprehensive yet most adaptable solution for creating highly accurate, structured, encoded and shareable medical documents to increase patient safety, promote continuity of patient care, and reduce cost. For more information, please visit www.mmodal.com.

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