Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding MedQuist's business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. MedQuist provides document workflow management, digital dictation, speech recognition, mobile dictation devices, Web-based transcription, electronic signature, medical coding products and outsourcing services. MedQuist, a member of the Philips Group of Companies, is a leading provider of electronic medical transcription, health information and document management products and services. "CodeRunner is the only computer-assisted, remote coding solution on the market today, and the new billing interface makes the solution even stronger."įor more information, contact a local MedQuist representative or call 800- 233-3030. "Health Information Management directors need more control over the coding and billing process than they have had in the past, due to the changes in the healthcare field," says Scott Bennett, senior vice president of Sales and Marketing at MedQuist. "With the volume of accounts generated and coded at Sierra Nevada Memorial," she says, "it was just a matter of time before human error was likely to happen." Her concerns have virtually disappeared with the interface in place. Before the interface, Hunt was also concerned about data entry errors and the risk of transposed numbers. At Sierra Nevada, MedQuist's CodeRunner is interfaced with the hospital information system. "The improved turnaround time and accuracy is more important than even reducing the amount of human intervention needed to enter data." She adds, "MedQuist's project management was very willing to work with us and customize the interface to meet our needs."Īnother MedQuist customer, Denise Hunt, MS, RHIA, director of Health Information Management at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital in Grass Valley, Calif., is also seeing more accurate and timely billing through MedQuist's billing interface. "We've reduced our manual data entry efforts tremendously and have already reduced another day in unbilled," says Matthias. Marcia Matthias, RHIA, corporate director of Health Information Management at Southern Illinois Healthcare, is witnessing firsthand how the new interface is helping to meet the organization's goals. Then hospital HIM staff would go online, print summary sheets and manually enter codes into the system. Before implementing the interface, MedQuist's coding team would perform the coding and enter codes into the CodeRunner application. This new interface provides seamless integration that allows codes to be directly transferred from CodeRunner to the customer's billing system, eliminating manual code entry and expediting billing.Īt Southern Illinois Healthcare, a three-hospital system located in Carbondale, IL, MedQuist's CodeRunner is interfaced with the patient financial system. (Pink Sheets: MEDQ) has successfully interfaced its remote, computer-assisted coding system, CodeRunner, with hospital billing systems. To address the challenge of completing coding better and faster, MedQuist Inc. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - In today's fast- paced healthcare environment, providers need to shorten their revenue cycle, while at the same time reducing data entry errors.
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