Emdat is pleased to announce the release of Emdat Mobile for Android. The Emdat Mobile application is already very popular on the iPhone, and we are excited to be able to deliver the same easy-to-use application for Android powered devices. The Android app allows physicians to view their patient schedule, dictate, review, and approve transcription. In addition, we’ve introduced a few new features to this version. Android users will be able to see their schedules in different views, review transcription in any part of the workflow, and dictate with Insert, Overwrite and Append options. Emdat is dedicated to the continued development of our Mobile applications — we look forward to bringing these features and more to both platforms in the near future.

You can download and install Emdat Mobile for Android from the Android Market.

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Emdat will be hosting it's fourth User Group Conference December 12-14, 2011 in Scottsdale, AZ at the Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North.

Register now for this great opportunity to learn and network with peers and Emdat leaders. Session topics include Emdat’s latest advances in mobile applications, EMR integration, voice understanding and meaningful use, in addition to industry trends, new technologies, effective marketing techniques and HIPAA. Early registration rates apply before September 15, 2011. For more information, visit our 2011 User Conference page.

Medical Health Imaging and Healthcare IT News recently published stories on Emdat Mobile for iPhone, iPad and Windows Mobile. Highlighting updates to the software, the publications detail improvements in usability and security.

The 2011 Emdat User Conference will be held December 12-14, 2011 at the Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North Scottsdale, AZ

Emdat clients are invited to join us as we summit in the sun to discuss industry trends and new technologies.  Enjoy compelling presentations and question-and-answer sessions while networking with peers and Emdat leaders.  Learn about Emdat's latest advances in mobile apps, EMR integration, voice recognition and qualified text.  Discover how to maximize your use of the suite of applications and employ effective marketing techniques.

We have secured the amazing room rate of $163 per night plus tax. Rooms include magnificent desert views and gas-burning fireplaces.  This breathtaking property offers a luxurious spa, access to renowned courses at Troon North Golf Club, and exquisite dining.   

More information on this rewarding event will be available in the next few months. 

Make the most of Emdat's applications! Join us in Madison, WI for a three day training class June 8th-10th. You'll learn the basics as well as the advanced features of InCommand, InQuiry, InSync, InScribe, and ShadowPrint. Visit the Emdat Training Class category at www.emdathelp.com to sign up!

New features of the latest edition of Emdat Mobile:

Bob Haugen, Chuck Strain and Randy Olver are heading to the Clinical Documentation Industry Association (CDIA) 2011 Annual Conference in Charlotte, NC, April 13-16, 2011. Visit Emdat at booth 207 to learn how Emdat can facilitate EMR adoption by allowing physicians to enjoy all the benefits of an EMR while continuing to dictate.

PracticeLink.com recently spoke to several physicians employing Emdat's integration with EMRs for the article Transcription gone high tech. Because Emdat allows them to continue to dictate while still enjoying the benefits of EMRs, they're saving time and providing better patient care.

Like many healthcare organizations in recent years, Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation and Loyola University Health System have adopted electronic medical records (EMRs) as a way to streamline their documentation process. However, converting to EMRs without disrupting physician workflow presented a unique challenge, given that many doctors prefer dictating patient notes orally as opposed to entering information manually into a computer. For both health systems, the solution came in the form of EMR integration from Emdat Inc. Read all about it.

On Tuesday, March 8th, Emdat will be releasing the first in a series of updates to our InQuiry and InCommand web applications. With Tuesday's release, the following changes will be in affect:

A recent HISTALK blog post included the following reader-submitted article about the value of transcription in modern healthcare documentation.

Emdat is pleased to announce the release of our newest case study, featuring Valley Transcription. Since partnering with Emdat in 2009, Valley Transcription has enjoyed an increase in business revenue, client satisfaction and MT productivity. Amongst the many benefits of the Emdat suite of applications, Valley Transcription owner Sally Kennel cited physician satisfaction with Emdat's EMR integration capabilities because they can use EMRs without completely restructuring their workflow. She also praised the Emdat technical team and help desk. Emdat thanks Sally for agreeing to share her story.

Madison area and industry publications are as excited about our new facilities as we are. Emdat was featured in the following media:

Looking for a medical transcription consultant? Brenda Hurley, a friend of Emdat, is available to help. Brenda has been a medical transcriptionist for nearly 40 years and offers confidential consulting services in medical transcription compliance, quality assurance, education, technology and workflow processes.

Brenda is available to:

A recent article in the November issue of For the Record, Healthcare Jumps on the Mobile Bandwagon, examines physicians using smart devices to help make the care process run more smoothly. In an effort to increase flexibility in physicians' workflow, healthcare facilities and companies are developing iPhone apps that interface with scheduling and patient information systems and/or allow providers to dictate into their smartphones.

Emdat Mobile, Emdat's app for the iPhone and the Windows Mobile platform, is among the companies mentioned. Kevin Saliga discusses Emdat Mobile's ability to allow physicians to download their patient schedule and record their dictation directly into the mobile device.

Emdat now has training videos available exclusively to Emdat clients that cover the setup and operation of our products.

Current Emdat clients, to access Emdat Video Training:

• Log into InCommand
• Select your MTSO Maintenance Tab
• Open the Advanced Maintenance sub-tab and select Video Training.

The training window will show the available videos on the left. When you click on a video, it will start playing on the right.

This is the first of many videos Emdat will have available to users. We will be creating a site specific to MT issues accessible from InScribe, and we will allow MTSOs to grant access to some videos to their clients through InQuiry.

If you have suggestions for topics, please visit our HelpDesk Request page and click on the Feedback icon, or add comments below.

Below are details on what is new in each application.

Comment Tagging Through InCommand, MTSOs will be able to create Comment Tags -- canned notations about a transcription. Via InScribe, an MT will be able to choose one or more Comment Tags to apply to a transcription. Comment Tags can be indicators such as “Missing Patient Information” or “Could not Understand Dictator”. A color can be associated with each Comment Tag. Through InQuiry’s Review folder, a medical facility will see the Comment folder icon in the color of the chosen tag, and will be able to filter transcriptions by a given tag. This functionality will be extended to other folders in a future update.

MT Instructions Through InCommand, MTSOs will be able to enter MT Instructions on a Document or Dictation Template. These notes will be presented to the MT in InScribe when the template loads. The MT will have the option of suppressing this note after the first time they view it. The MTSO will have the option to prevent the...

On Tuesday, September 7, 2010, Emdat will be making InScribe 4.97 available for download. On Monday, September 20, 2010, our web applications will be deployed to our servers, upgrading them to InQuiry and InCommand 5.8. Below are details on what is new in each application. Please note that some of the features in the InScribe release on the 4th will only be available after the associated InCommand updates are deployed on the 20th.

Comment Tagging Through InCommand, MTSOs will be able to create Comment Tags – canned notations about a transcription. Via InScribe, an MT will be able to choose one or more Comment Tags to apply to a transcription. Comment Tags can be indicators such as "Missing Patient Information" or "Could not Understand Dictator." A color can be associated with each Comment Tag. Through InQuiry's Review folder, a medical facility will see the Comment folder icon in the color of the chosen tag, and will be able to filter transcriptions by a given tag. This functionality will be extended...

Emdat Mobile for iPhone is reviewed in a post today on iMedicalApps.

Blogger Felasfa Wodajo, MD notes that he's been an Emdat user for 3 years, and finds that the app is "a very nice advance over using a digital dictaphone and special software to upload dictations."

In case his readers (his primary audience is doctors) don't know about Emdat, Dr Wodajo provides details about Emdat's medical dictation and transcription suite of software applications, mentioning, specifically, the potential impact of functionality like DaRT on the healthcare industry. He also cites our recently released white paper, "Facilitate EMR Success."

iMedicalApps is a online medical publication written by...

We’ve got an app for that! A brand new application is available in the iPhone App Store for Emdat account holders. Emdat Mobile for iPhone allows providers to obtain a listing of their scheduled appointments, perform dictation, and even review and complete transcriptions from their Preliminary folder. Even clients that do not send us an appointment listing can still create new dictation and review transcription using the Emdat Mobile product. (Note: iTouch and iPad devices will also work with the Emdat Mobile product, however iTouch users will need to purchase a separate microphone to perform dictation). This is a free download from the App Store.

ITHeathcare News, CMIO.net:,...

I recently met Marianne Kleen from Textware Solutions at the AHDI meeting and she expressed how happy many medical transcriptionists were that they were able to use Instant Text within Emdat's InScribe typing platform. Marianne gave me this hyperlink to an excellent article.

Instant Text is a great productivity tool used with Emdat's InScribe.

Textware Solutions, developer and publisher of Instant Text, counts among its customers a large number of Emdat users happy to increase their productivity in the process of clinical documentation. While working in Emdat they can seamlessly utilize the knowledge base of their Instant Text glossaries that contain the medical words and phrases they have to deal with every day. The unique features of Instant Text allow them to have tens of thousands of words, drug names, phrases, addresses right at their fingertips with...

I just spoke with one of my new MTSOs and she indicated that the recent power outage in the Midwest had caused her problems. I reminded her that Emdat allows you to outsource within our software other MTSOs. Knowing that you cannot power up the software is an issue but if you develop relationships with other MTSOs on the Emdat platform it would allow you to manage that work flow with their help thus avoiding service interruptions to your clients. You always need a backup plan when you are a MTSO.

Steve Jobs, founder of Apple computer, once said, "You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new."  Nothing has made that more visibly true to Emdat then when we implemented our Feedback system.  Emdat *is* asking our customers what they want, and for the most part are trying to deliver.  That can be a long road, and more ideas will come in while on that road, but we believe it is a road worth traveling.

Emdat is a constantly evolving system.  We originally built the system around the ideas of the three founders, who brought in their experience working at various medical institutions.  But their experiences were one-sided - coming mostly from a technical background.  Steve Palmisano, one of the founders, recognized this early on, and has always kept the User Experience in the foreground of our application development.  Almost no piece of any application goes out the door without Steve (and more recently, Rich and his...

Some systems give transcription companies the option of charging for these lines.  Since Transcription Companies pay for the software that generates these lines, they have every right to charge their client for them.  Traditionally, anything on the final report is considered chargeable lines.  In the Emdat system, the transcription company or medical facility (whomever is contracted to use the software) not only have the choice of charging for headers and footers, but also patient demographic labels, clinician titles and credentials, first and last paragraphs of a transcription (if as a template).

The Print Template was first designed by Emdat and uses the technology built into Internet Explorer to allow for variable information before the transcription body and after the transcription body.  Because these variables are populated through setup screens and the transcriptionist doesn't type them, Transcription Companies can use Emdat without any additional expenses and usually save money by using Emdat. 

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Emdat is proud to announce that development on our new PDA dictation application, "Emdat Mobile", is nearing completion and will be in beta in March.  Physicians with a PDA will be able to:

• Use their PDA to access their daily schedule
• Dictate against any patient
• Review prior transcription for patients on their schedule

In a recent artcle titled  "Affordable technology solutions for today’s busy practices", Shelly K. Schwartz of Cunningham Group identifies PDA devides as the wave of the future for the medical industry.

For more information on our PDA product, see the new Emdat Mobile link on our software page.  To participate in the beta, please drop us an e-mail at: beta@emdat.com.