Emdat Inc., a leading provider of clinical documentation software designed to bridge the gap between Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems and traditional dictation, announced today a record quarter for new contract signings. The quarter’s new partnerships include Nelson Systems, a national reseller of technical services and support, as well as multiple medical facilities and regional and government-based medical transcription service providers throughout the United States.

Nelson Systems, Inc. specializes in technical services that support mission critical voice and data applications, including hospitals, law offices, call centers and emergency settings. Nelson Systems will be reselling a host of Emdat applications, including the mobile app Emdat Mobile, which maximize clinician efficiency, increase documentation accuracy and help their healthcare clients provide the best care possible.

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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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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.

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!

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:

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

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.

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...

RANDY OLVER NAMED EMDAT CEO, WILL LEAD NEXT PHASE OF GROWTH FOR MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION SOLUTIONS PROVIDER

Fitchburg, WI (Nov. 5, 2009) – Emdat, a world leader in online-based medical transcription solutions, has tapped Randy Olver as its new CEO, effective immediately.

Emdat’s founding partners, who remain actively involved in the business, selected Olver to serve as CEO of the 10-year-old company. Steve Palmisano, one of the founders who had been CEO, will serve as president.

“Randy’s diverse business experience is exactly what we’ve been seeking to guide Emdat to the next level so that we can continue providing world-class transcription products and services to our clients,” Palmisano said. “We’ve tripled in size in the past five years and, looking forward, our business needs have grown dramatically.”

Emdat, which experienced double-digit growth during the difficult business environment of the past year, remains committed to its core business model of providing medical transcription...

If you are a medical transcription service organization or medical facility looking to improve your work flow process you might want to take a look at our flash presentation. Emdat has tried to address the needs of our clients by offering our software as a service. By supplying a totally integrated suite of web based applications, Emdat has helped many transcription organizations grow their businesses and many medical facilities streamline their transcription process. 

If you have doubts about the security of where and how your data is stored you will be able to sleep better at night once you review this site. Emdat has invested our money and time with Equinix, the best partner for securing your mission critical operations. I had the opportunity to tour the Equinix facility in Chicago recently with Jeff Olver (CTO Emdat) as well as one of our prospective Medical Transcription Service Organizations. Obviously MTSOs should be concerned about the security and reliability of the center where their data is stored as nothing is more important or critical to their day to day operations. Equinix offers five levels of security which is designed much like the Federal Reserve. Additionally Equinix offers five nines of up-time which is the best in the business. I know many of you have not had a chance to tour this facility so I encourage you to take the virtual tour by clicking on the link above. Believe me you will...

Emdat is a suite of web-based applications that completely automates the preparation, routing and delivery of the entire dictation, transcription and documentation process. Emdat begins with the proven foundation of traditional dictation and adds web-based cost-saving features to give clients a fully integrated solution that improves workflow, reduces cost, and saves time.

Previously, CEI transcriptionists -- all of whom worked off-site because of space constraints -- made frequent trips into the office to pick up dictations and drop off completed transcriptions. Along with being inconvenient, it was an administrative nightmare for CEI Project Manager Marsha Wylie. In addition, the company paid transcriptionists for each hour of drive time, making for a costly and inefficient combination.

Using Emdat, CEI's simplified its transcription process. A straightforward and user-friendly system, Emdat is easy to learn. CEI’s transcriptionists easily transitioned to the new online system. Administrators effortlessly...

Executive Healthcare Management Magazine's June edition mentions first steps to an EMR and lists Emdat's online web application which is used in the dictation/transcription process. Emdat has the ability to populate all historical transcriptions directly into a facilities electronic medical record thus making the EMR more valuable from the start. Since the interface is provided at no charge by Emdat, the solution is designed to improve the physician's operations as well as productivity.

Email and FTP sites are poor solutions for a transcription process. Email and FTP were designed as transport and storage mechanisms but  increase administration of the transcription process flow. The headaches occur due to accountability. The dictations (voice files) and documents generally must be manually associated and managed with the finished transcription. Additionally emails and FTP sites require special encryption and decryption software in order to be HIPAA compliant which is very difficult to manage.

Emdat gives a receipt code and assigns a TID (transcription identification number) with every dictation (voice file), which continues to associate throughout the transcription workflow even after completion. This process is automated and creates a verifiable audit trail to track receipts, uploads, downloads, edits, autofaxes (successful/unsuccessful), views, electronic signatures, printing, exports and more. The key is to make this process seamless to all involved in the transcription process and provide accountability for quality, timeliness and security. Since autofaxing is a popular and acceptable feature within Emdat there are sites that are availble to make sure you understand HIPAA's stance on this technology.

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As a service to the medical facilities, Emdat, with very few exceptions, provides interfacing at no charge.  That is not always the case for EMR companies. At times, the costs charged for the EMR side of the interface can be prohibitive to moving forward. This is frustrating not only to transcription companies trying to win the business by providing better service, but also to the medical facilities which would realize  more value with their EMR. HL7 is the most common interface, but generally requires involvement for either the scheduling/demographic interface or textual/discrete interface back into the EMR.

If costs are prohibitive or cooperation is not forthcoming by the EMR software provider, we do have some options which are pretty straightforward and will save on cost. Don't panic - you can still interface to the scheduler to improve accuracy for the transcriptionist, and Emdat will store all transcriptions on our servers for as long as you are a client. Additionally we can bring past historical transcriptions...

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...