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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 Speech Recognition is awarded “Best in KLAS”

Dolbey’s Fusion Speech® ranks #1 CINCINNATI, OH – For the second consecutive year, Dolbey Fusion Speech was ranked #1 in the Speech Recognition segment of the 2013 Best in KLAS: Software and Services report. KLAS is an independent healthcare research firm that recognizes the technology and service organizations that excelled in helping providers deliver better…

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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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Where is the value in physician notes, unstructured data?

By Kyle Murphy, PhD for EHR Intelligence Few dispute the value of the knowledge comprising physician notes. The problem for healthcare organizations and providers is being able to extract meaningful and useful data from that unstructured free text for the purposes of care coordination, coding, and reporting — to name a few. And it’s about…

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HIPAA Final Rule analysis: will the new breach rule result in more notifications?

By Quarles & Brady LLP – Jennifer L. Rathburn, Kevin J. Eldridge and Jennifer J. Hennessy for Lexology As we have annoyingly reminded you in previous publications, on January 17, 2013 the moment much anticipated by the health care industry finally arrived: The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil…

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Tech Worries Surge as ICD-10 Looms

KLAS report shows concerns about preparedness By Bernie Monegain, Editor, HealthcareIT News While preparation for ICD-10 intensifies, questions surrounding EMR vendor readiness and ICD-10-related technologies are surfacing. In the KLAS report, “ICD-10 Perception 2012: Can Technology Relieve Readiness Issues?,” the second report of a two-part series, KLAS discusses how leading providers around the country are…

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10 Best Children’s Hospitals

By Karen Cicero from Parents Magazine These pediatric centers — leaders in Parents’ exclusive evaluation — routinely heal sick children whom local hospitals could no longer help. Find out where to go if the unfathomable ever happens to your family. The Survey At children’s hospitals nationwide, a growing number of very sick children are finding…

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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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