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Nuance Communications unveiled its advancements in natural language processing (NLP) and its medical mobile apps for smartphones at HIMSS10 last week in Atlanta.
MacSpeech, a speech recognition vendor for the Macintosh platform, has released MacSpeech Scribe Medical, a personal transcription add-on, at the Macworld Conference and Expo 2010 in San Francisco.
Medical transcription company MedQuist has entered into a “stalking horse” purchase agreement with clinical documentation company Spheris for its domestic business. The agreement must be approved by the courts, as the Franklin, Tenn.-based Spheris recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
EHR vendors must incorporate software-as-a-service (SaaS) and speech recognition services into their product portfolio if they wish to take advantage of market opportunities in 2010 EHR market, according to a report by market research firm Ovum.
Written by Gina Narcisi
CHICAGO--The widespread use of speech recognition (SR) has decreased report turnaround time, but also has introduced errors into the radiology report, said Zombor Zoltani, BA, of the University of Maryland, at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual conference on Tuesday.
Nuance Communications has made available version 9 of its eScription on-demand platform for computer-aided medical transcription.
Nuance Communications reported that its speech recognition technology, SpeechMagic, has been deployed at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
Scribe Healthcare Technologies has incorporated M*Modal Speech Understanding technology into its web-based medical dictation, transcription and archive solutions.
Nuance Healthcare (Booth 1448) is featuring its Dragon Medical speech recognition software, which lets physicians create medical documents and emails, search the internet and control their PC and EHR system.
M*Modal (Booth 7040) is showcasing its Conversational Documentation Service (CDS) Mobile edition of it AnyModal CDS for the Apple iPhone.
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3M Health Information Systems is looking to give "physicians back their mobility" in 2010, David Owen, product line marketing manager, told CMIO at HIMSS10 in Atlanta last week, where the company introduced its Mobile Dictation platform for smartphones, designed for healthcare providers.
The effective use of hands-free communication device (HCD) systems depends on how well organizations train users, adapt to the changes brought about by the use of these systems and integrate the systems into the organization’s physical surroundings, according to a study published in the January issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Written by Jeff Byers
Recent requirements from the Joint Commission and the American College of Radiology (ACR) add to the growing number of quality demands being placed upon radiology departments. In an increasingly complex regulatory and financial environment, comprehensive quality management processes are essential. The digital dashboard holds the answers to today’s problems—if you only you dare to fully utilize them.
Written by Michael Bassett
 If the organizers of the 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America even considered the idea of putting together a conference that could skim along quietly underneath the radar, those thoughts ended Nov. 17 when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released its controversial revised mammography guidelines.
Philips Healthcare sales declined 4 percent for the fiscal 2009 third quarter (end-Sept. 30), as double-digit growth in emerging markets was offset by declines in U.S. sales of imaging systems, patient monitoring and clinical care systems.
Despite the recession, 56 percent of healthcare organizations in the United States have increased their IT department budgets in 2009, according to a report from the life science market research firm Kalorama Information.
Allscripts, in conjunction with Nuance Communications, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Intel and Intuit Microsoft, is co-launching the EHR Stimulus Alliance, aimed at educating 500,000 U.S. physicians about opportunities aligned with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 by delivering virtual and physical education programs.
RIS Concepts has released multiple voice recognition system support for its RCI-RIS, a Web-based, multi-facility RIS, and RAD-RIS for the needs of radiology groups reading studies for multiple facilities.
ScImage (Booth 3455) is introducing PicomWeb, a physician portal that delivers images, reports, waveforms and documents to web browsers.
Grundig Business Systems (Booth 6559) is presenting its wireless dictation microphone Digta CordEx, a professional wireless dictation microphone that allows users to move freely within a 25-foot radius, while still dictating into the user's PC.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.