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New report looks into Global medical transcription services market that is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.6% to 2019

By James Martin for WhaTech This new report elaborates on the global medical transcription services market that was valued at $41.4 million in 2012 and is expected to reach an estimated value of $60.6 million in 2019, growing at a CAGR of 5.6% in the forecast period 2013 – 2019. Medical transcription (MT) is a…

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Rural Hospitals Excluded from Quality Push

By Jordan Rau for Kaiser Health News Many small, rural hospitals are having a hard time fitting into new accountability standards of the Affordable Care Act. Critical-access hospitals aren’t yet part of Medicare’s pay-for-performance plan, and Congress never provided money for testing how to tie bonuses and penalties to hospital performance. Crawford Memorial Hospital, in…

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KLAS Front-End Speech 2014 Report: Dolbey Speech Recognition Ranks #1 for Implementation, Functionality and Service

Providers rated Dolbey’s Fusion Speech® above other speech recognition vendors’ solutions CINCINNATI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dolbey’s Fusion SpeechEMR front-end speech recognition received the highest overall rating by healthcare providers, according to a new KLAS report on speech recognition titled Front-End Speech Recognition 2014: Functionality Doesn’t Trump Physician Resistance. “We continue to see an increasing need for a strong…

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Positive patient experiences linked to quality measure improvements

By Jeffrey Bendix, Senior Editor, for Medical Economics Leaving your patients with a good feeling about their office visit may not just help your reviews on websites like Yelp and Healthgrades.com. It could also result in better patient outcomes. As Americans increasingly use online rankings and reviews when choosing a healthcare provider, a new study…

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ICD-10 queries: Where real time is likely to be lost

By Carl Natale, Editor, for ICD10Watch Are you worried that ICD-10’s granularity will take a hefty toll on productivity? Then you’re not alone. One of the major issues with ICD-10 implementation is the concern that the increased specificity will create more work for medical practices and damage productivity. To document that increased specificity, physicians are…

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Smithsonian Turning to the Public to Help Transcribe Documents

By Jennifer Schuessler for the New York Times The Smithsonian Institution has followed the crowdsourcing crowd, with the opening of an online transcription center allowing members of the public to help decipher thousands of digitized pages of Civil War diaries, botanical labels, correspondence and other documents that cannot be easily read by a computer. Over…

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Hospitals could face penalties for missing electronic health record deadline

From the University of Michigan on ScienceDaily Many of the nation’s hospitals struggled to meet a federally mandated electronic health records deadline, and as a result could collectively face millions of dollars in reduced Medicare payments this year, a University of Michigan study shows. More than half of U.S. hospitals were on the hook to…

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AHIMA, AHA Connect ICD-10, Clinical Documentation Improvement with Better Care

By John DeGaspari for Healthcare Informatics Two healthcare leaders share strategies for clinical documentation improvement at AHIMA CDI Summit There is significant value in Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) in and of itself, according to Sue Bowman, senior director, coding policy and compliance at the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and Nelly Leon-Chisen, director of…

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