PITTSBURGH, PA, January XX, 2007 – Emdat, Inc. a leading national provider of transcription work flow and management solution M*Modal, a leader in on-demand, speech understanding services, have entered into an agreement that is expected to elevate Emdat’s competitiveness in the marketplace. This partnership leads to an integration of M*Modal’s proprietary speech understanding technology into Emdat’s hosted medical transcription platform and will enable Emdat to provide its clients with the leading edge transcription technology that covers the entire cycle of health care documentation – from capture of physician dictation to publishing of final medical reports.

Emdat is pleased to offer the AnyModal CDS product to their ever expanding dictation and transcription business. Steve Palmisano, CEO of Emdat says, “M*Modal’s AnyModal CDS complements the Emdat process because physicians can be added at anytime and do not need to be aware that speech understanding technology is being used in the transcription process. Due to the fact that over 32,000 clinicians and over 1,300 medical facilities currently use Emdat we had to be very careful in our choice for the best available speech understanding technology.”

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Emdat, a world leader in online-based medical transcription software, is taking on a leadership role with the Health Story Project. Health Story develops and promotes standards that support the flow of information between narrative documents and electronic medical record systems (EMR ).

"As a provider of transcription software and data storage to thousands of medical transcription companies and healthcare providers around the globe, Emdat is well situated to provide meaningful insights for the critical work Health Story is doing," said Randy Olver, Emdat CEO.

As part of advancing Health Story goals, Emdat leaders will provide strategic direction for the project, speak at industry events, serve as media spokespeople and continue sculpting its technologies in accordance with the project’s standards.

“Emdat’s direct commitment to Health Story supports further development of specifications for the transfer of information from narrative document types directly to EMR systems,” said Health Story...

How medical transcription will be affected by a Nationalized Health Care Record is a common question these days.

All of the soundbites that are in the air definitely keep us thinking about the future, and we've had many discussions about this. The most likely probability is that there won't be significant change at a national level, due to all of the healthcare lobbies, etc. Under a new administration, there may major reforms in this area followed by major changes in healthcare, but I think the likely hood of that is very slim.

That said, EMR systems are still emerging, pushing medical facilities to "reduce transcription costs" by using Voice Recognition and Templating features of their systems. With that in mind, we are moving forward internally with many development efforts to stay on top of this.

First, Voice Recognition tops our list, and several of our clients are ramping up.  We believe the technology partner we've gone with for Voice Recognition will exceed the claims made by other vendors, keeping us in play for facilities that want to go with this technology.

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