UPCOMING EVENTS:

MTIA 2010
Emdat will be attending the Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA) national meeting in Daytona Beach, Florida, April 28th - May 1st, 2010.

AHDI 2010
Emdat will attend the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity 31st Annual Convention and Expo in Austin, TX, August 4-7, 2010.

AHIMA 2010
Emdat will attend the American Health Information Management Association Convention and Exhibit in Orlando, FL, September 25–30, 2010.

NEWS:

Emdat becomes Gold Member of MTIA
Emdat is proud to annouce its Gold membership in the Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA). As a MTIA Gold member, Emdat will be highly visible leader within the healthcare industry and an important contributor to national healthcare policy. MTIA is the world's largest association for medical transcription service organizations. It is a not-for-profit trade association serving the needs of medical transcription companies, vendors, and health information management professionals.

Emdat a Promoter of Health Story Project
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 executive committee member Nick van Terheyden, MD, Chief Medical Officer of M*Modal. “The efforts of companies like Emdat are further evidence of the industry’s readiness to make interoperability a fact of life and to support providers in achieving federal meaningful use requirements.”

Emdat developers work with EMR providers to ensure transcribed data is fluidly incorporated. Its mission is to provide medical transcription service organizations (MTSOs) and healthcare providers a fully managed software suite to collect, store and move data with no up-front software costs or maintenance fees.

Randy Olver Named Emdat CEO, Will Lead Next Phase of Growth for Medical Transcription Solutions Provider
November 6, 2009 -- Emdat, a world leader in online-based medical transcription, 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 service organizations (MTSOs) and healthcare providers a fully managed software suite to collect, store and move data with no up-front software costs or maintenance fees.

Olver, a commercial banking veteran who joined Emdat in February 2009 as a vice president, said upcoming years present a significant opportunity for the medical transcription industry. He said growth in electronic medical record (EMR) adoption and federal mandates make it more important than ever for medical notes and dictations to be integrated quickly and accurately.

“It’s a critical time for medical software and I am very confident in the ability of Emdat’s people and technology to evolve with industry changes and to set the pace for improvements,” Olver said. “There’s a heightened awareness within the medical community regarding ways that transcription software complements, rather than competes with, electronic medical records.”

Olver, a resident of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, earned a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and a MBA from DePaul University. He worked at US Bank for 17 years and was most recently a senior vice president managing Milwaukee’s National Corporate Banking group.

Emdat joins MTIA
April 2009 -- Emdat is proud to annouce its membership in the Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA). MTIA is the world's largest association for medical transcription service organizations. It is a not-for-profit trade association serving the needs of medical transcription companies, vendors, and health information management professionals.

Emdat new address
January 2009 -- Emdat branches address update. Please send all signatures to our office in Wisconsin ("Mailing Address" below). They are no longer accepted at the Louisiana address.

Payment Address:
  Emdat
  1473 Momentum Place
  Chicago, IL 60689-5314

Mailing Address:
  Emdat
  2940 Chapel Valley Rd., Suite 2
  Fitchburg, WI 53711

Emdat launches blog
March 2007 -- Emdat blog launched in March. Address is http://medicaltranscription.emdat.com/

PAST EVENTS:

Emdat User Group Conference 2009
DECEMBER 9–11, 2009 • NEW ORLEANS, LA

Nearly 80 MTSO VIPs representing 35 companies were armed and inspired with ways to improve and market their business at the Emdat User Group Conference 2009. Together, they considered existing features of the Emdat Suite of Applications as well as functionality improvements planned for forthcoming updates. Emdat's marketing team shared tactics to grow business by effectively promoting Emdat’s selling strengths. Attendess met and networked with fellow MTSO leaders to exchange ideas, strengthen relationships and forge new connections.

AHDI 2009
Emdat attended the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity 31st Annual Convention and Expo in Nashville, TN, July 29 - August 1, 2009.

AHIMA 2009
Emdat attended the American Health Information Management Association Convention and Exhibit in Grapevine, TX, October 3-8, 2009.

AMGA 2009
Emdat attended the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) national meeting in Las Vegas, NV, March 2-4, 2009

MGMA 2009
Emdat attended the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) regional meeting in Minneapolis, MN, March 9-11, 2009.

MTIA 2009
Emdat attended the Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA) national meeting in Louisville, KY, April 22-25, 2009.