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MModal Misses Bond Payment During Creditor Talks to Reduce Debt

By Matt Robinson for Bloomberg.com MModal Inc. skipped a scheduled bond interest payment yesterday, taking advantage of a 30-day grace period as the provider of medical transcription services negotiates with creditors to cut the company’s debt load. “At this time no determination has been made by MModal to not pay such scheduled interest payment” within…

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Dolbey Announces Patent Award for Its Fusion SpeechEMR Technology

Cincinnati, OH December 3, 2013 – On the eve of its 100-year anniversary, Dolbey and Company, Inc., which began in 1914 as a partner and dealer for Thomas A. Edison’s dictation machine company, announces the issuance of a United States patent for “Systems and Methods for Providing an Electronic Dictation Interface.” Dolbey’s patented technology is…

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Covenant Health Selects Dolbey for Computer-Assisted Coding and ICD-10 Readiness

Cincinnati, OH, November 19, 2013 – Dolbey today announced that Covenant Health, East Tennessee’s leading provider of healthcare, has selected the Fusion CAC solution for each of their seven hospitals. Increased coder productivity and improved financial performance were driving factors in making this decision while preparing for the dramatic healthcare change to ICD-10. Covenant’s physicians…

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Dolbey Speech Recognition is Best in KLAS

Dolbey Speech Recognition is Best in KLAS CINCINNATI, OH – Dolbey’s Fusion Expert® and Fusion SpeechEMR™ have been recognized as “2012 Best in KLAS” for Speech Recognition by KLAS, an independent healthcare research firm that designates the best vendors in various software and services. This highly regarded award is a culmination of vendor scores collected…

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Dolbey Announces Ability to Automate Contrast Dose Capture with Fusion Suite to Improve Radiology Documentation Workflow

Dolbey Announces Ability to Automate Contrast Dose Capture with Fusion Suite to Improve Radiology Documentation Workflow Chicago, IL- At the 98th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting (RSNA) Dolbey announces they have recently extended interfacing capability of its Fusion product suite for clinical documentation to the Bayer Certegra® SR Outbound Interface.   Utilizing this new connectivity, when…

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Voice Recognition in the ED

By John DeGaspari for Healthcare Informatics Why one hospital complemented its EHR implementation with voice recognition How does voice recognition technology affect patient care quality and efficiency? One proponent for its use is Bud Lawrence, M.D., emergency medicine physician director of risk management at the Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, a 250-bed hospital and level-2…

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Planning for ICD-10 at the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics

By Connie S. Tohara for Computerworld When October 1, 2014 arrives, there are a number of potential disasters that await if we’re not fully prepared for the new clinical coding classification, ICD-10. Federal regulators have proposed a Fall 2014 deadline to comply, and we’re taking the initiative head-on at the University of Utah Hospitals and…

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Dolbey Introduces DocAssist for Physician Guidance with ICD-10

HIMSS12 LAS VEGAS–From the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference, Dolbey introduced DocAssist™ Documentation Guides to help hospitals train their physicians to document patient reports according to the upcoming ICD-10 PCS requirements. “Our research found that as much as 60% of the documentation in a patient’s chart is still dictated and transcribed.…

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