A-Life Medical Signs Agreement With Dictaphone to Offer Integrated Transcription and Coding Services.Business Editors/Medical Writers SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2000 New Alliance Creates Automated Offering that Simplifies Report Creation, Saves Clinicians Time, Money A-Life Medical, Inc., a leader in advanced Natural Language Processing Natural language processing Computer analysis and generation of natural language text. The goal is to enable natural languages, such as English, French, or Japanese, to serve either as the medium through which users interact with computer systems such as (NLP (Natural Language Processing) The capability of understanding human language. If the language is spoken, voice recognition plays an important role in converting the sounds to individual words. Then, natural language processing figures out what the words mean. ) technology for the medical industry, today announced that it has signed an agreement with the Integrated Healthcare Systems (IHS IHS (I.H.S.) first three letters of Greek spelling of Jesus; also taken as acronym of Iesus Hominum Salvator ‘Jesus, Savior of Mankind.’ [Christian Symbolism: Brewer Dictionary, 480] See : Christ IHS ) division of Dictaphone Corporation, a leader in health information management systems, software, and services. This agreement will enable Dictaphone to incorporate A-Life's technology into its dictation, transcription and report management systems. Dictaphone plans to integrate LogiCoder(TM) technology with their Enterprise Express(R) digital dictation Digital dictation is a method of recording and editing the spoken word in real-time within a digital audio format. Digital dictation offers several advantages over traditional cassette tape based dictation: See: Carriage Paid To , and E&M service level coding from the electronic text reports produced by the Dictaphone Enterprise Express system. Combined, the technologies provide a solution that seamlessly automates and integrates transcription and coding, simplifying the report generation process and saving clinicians' time and money. "With the integration of LogiCoder with Dictaphone's quality transcription systems, we have addressed the number one problem in the coding industry -- the receipt of electronically transcribed and corrected charts that are ready for coding," said Eric Corkhill, vice president of sales and marketing for A-Life Medical, Inc. "Additionally, Dictaphone's extensive client base of over 1,000 hospitals and several hundred thousand physicians, will allow us to gain market access as a component in Dictaphone's full solution offering." The first offering, automated coding for Emergency Medicine, is currently beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the at United Hospital in Port Chester, New York Port Chester is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population is 27,867, according to the 2000 census, however, a July 1, 2002 Census estimate puts the village's population at 27,949. As a village, it is located in the Town of Rye. . Following a successful outcome, Dictaphone plans to offer this coding capability to its many user hospitals, as well as through its new Web-based service, which offers on a pay-for-use application service provider (ASP) basis digital dictation, speech recognition, natural language processing and report coding services via Internet access See how to access the Internet. . "Combining A-Life's technology into our proven Enterprise Express digital dictation platform creates a more comprehensive offering that enables clients to take a medical report from dictation to transcription to a compliantly coded report in a seamless and integrated process," said Rob Schwager, senior vice president and general manager for Dictaphone. "This new capability will provide enhanced reimbursement Reimbursement Payment made to someone for out-of-pocket expenses has incurred. , with a level of coding accuracy and completeness not practical or affordable using today's human coding methods. We see this new solution as an opportunity to expand our services to the healthcare community in a way that will positively impact their coding reimbursement practices, while expanding our user base." About Dictaphone's IHS Division Dictaphone's Integrated Healthcare Systems (IHS) division has experienced dramatic revenue growth of over 25% annually for the past three years, driven by strong sales of its Enterprise Express(R) voice and text processing systems, currently installed in over 1,000 healthcare facilities. Dictaphone's Integrated Health Systems (IHS) division provides voice and data platforms for patient record management in hospitals, clinics, and medical centers, providing services to hundreds-of-thousand physicians. Lernout & Hauspie, a worldwide leader in speech and linguistic technologies, products and services, recently signed a definitive agreement to acquire Dictaphone Corporation, including its IHS division. The acquisition, which is expected to be completed in the next several weeks, will combine the two companies' assets to create products and services that address market opportunities in healthcare and other industries. Dictaphone currently uses Internet technology to exchange voice, text, and data among hospitals, clinics, and off-site transcription services. Dictaphone intends to expand its Internet and intranet capabilities to provide Web-hosted applications, offering an alternative way for customers to acquire technology as well as enhanced services Enhanced service is service offered over commercial carrier transmission facilities used in interstate communications, that employs computer processing applications that act on the format, content, code, protocol, or similar aspects of the subscriber's transmitted information; , including Web-based transcription, reimbursement coding services, speech recognition/natural language processing
Language processing refers to the way human beings process speech or writing and understand it as language. , and clinical data mining, among other capabilities. For more information, visit www.dictaphone.com or call 888-350-4836. About A-Life Medical, Inc. A-Life Medical, Inc. is the leader in advanced natural language processing (NLP) technology for the medical industry. This technology emulates human understanding of language. Through its expertise in NLP technology, A-Life has successfully taught a computer to "read" narrative text associated with physicians' charts and to automatically assign complex medical codes used for billing and data collection. A-Life specializes in automating text processing and coding in the emergency medicine and radiology specialties, with plans to expand to other areas of medicine, including inpatient services inpatient service Managed care A service provided to a hospitalized Pt. Cf Outpatient service. . Founded in 1996, A-Life Medical is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. . For more information on A-Life and its products, call 858-268-9999 or visit A-Life at www.alifemedical.com. LogiCoder is a registered trademark of A-Life Medical, Inc. Dictaphone(R) and Enterprise Express(R) are trademarks of Dictaphone Corp. All other company, product, and service names are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks or service marks of other companies. |
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