MedQuist Chosen by Los Angeles County Department of Health Services to Provide Clinical Documentation Services
September 20 2011 - 7:00AM
MedQuist Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq:MEDH), a leading provider of
integrated clinical documentation solutions for the U.S. healthcare
system, announced that Los Angeles County Department of Health
Services has chosen the company to provide clinical speech
technology and documentation services across its health system and
SpeechQ front-end speech recognition technology for its radiology
practices.
By standardizing on MedQuist services and technology to capture
the detailed story for its patient population, Los Angeles County
Department of Health Services will have actionable, meaningful
clinical documentation, experience cost reductions and realize
clinical documentation improvement, which will help them with their
move from ICD-9 to ICD-10. Front-end speech recognition
capabilities for radiology will provide technology enhancements
with accuracy gains in speech understanding, in addition to cost
savings afforded by a standardized solution for radiology
transcription technology and services.
"The MedQuist solution greatly enhances the efficiency of our
clinical operations by harnessing the latest in technology," said
LAC+USC Medical Center Diagnostic Services Administrator Daniel
Amaya. "We look forward to our continued partnership and to
meeting our performance and cost objectives."
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services facilities
included in this relationship are:
- Harbor UCLA Medical Center
- High Desert Health System
- LAC+USC Health Care Network
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Multi-Service Ambulatory Care
Center
- Olive View-UCLA Medical Center
- Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center
Clinical documentation services are performed utilizing the
company's DocQment Enterprise Platform (EP) through digital voice
capture, automated speech recognition and transcription and editing
tools. DocQment EP™ facilitates workflow efficiencies and
high-quality clinical information captured from the physician
narrative. DocQlytics, an intuitive reporting dashboard streamlines
and accelerates performance reporting on clinical documentation and
provides continuous process improvement analytics. SpeechQ for
Radiology offers real-time interactive speech for dictation, review
and electronic signature of reports, interfaces with radiology
information systems (RIS) or picture archiving and communication
systems (PACS) systems.
"The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services provides
valuable healthcare services to the communities in which it
operates, and our partnership will help them achieve even greater
success for their patients," said Vern Davenport, Chairman and CEO
of MedQuist Holdings. "Deep value will be derived from the rich
content delivered through the clinical documentation process we
deliver. By capturing such detailed clinical information in the
care cycle, greater collaboration in the healthcare continuum will
be achieved among stakeholders and deeper insight into each
patient's complete story will enhance delivery of care."
About Los Angeles County Department of Health
Services
The Department of Health Services (DHS) provides acute and
rehabilitative patient care, trains physicians and other health
care clinicians, and conducts patient care-related research. DHS
operates four hospitals, including some of the nation's premiere
academic medical centers through its affiliations with the
University of Southern California and the University of California,
Los Angeles. In addition, DHS operates two multiservice ambulatory
care centers, six comprehensive health centers, and multiple
primary care health centers throughout Los Angeles County, many in
partnership with private, community-based providers.
About MedQuist
MedQuist is a leading provider of clinical narrative capture
services, delivering Speech Understanding technology from M*Modal
and clinical documentation workflow. MedQuist's enterprise
solutions – including mobile voice capture devices, speech
recognition, Web-based workflow platforms and global network of
medical editors – help healthcare facilities facilitate adoption of
electronic health records (EHR), improve patient care, increase
physician satisfaction and lower operational costs. For more
information, please visit www.medquist.com.
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