MOUNT LAUREL, N.J., June 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MedQuist's (Nasdaq: MEDQ) customer, OhioHealth, based in Columbus, Ohio, has been selected as one of the Top 100 CIO 100 Award winners. OhioHealth was recognized as an industry leader for their implementation and use of MedQuist's SpeechQ for Radiology(TM) voice-recognition software in their radiology department.
CIO, a nationally recognized leader in print and online media, provides insight and analysis on information technology trends to IT professionals and business leaders regardless of industry. The CIO 100 Award celebrates 100 organizations -- and the people in those organizations -- that use information technology in innovative ways to deliver business value, optimize business processes, enable growth and improve customer relations. "We are delighted to be recognized as an IT leader," said Scott Starkey, director of Digital Imaging at OhioHealth. "Our goal was to use technology to provide better patient care, by reducing the time between when patients have an imaging exam and when their physicians have the final report."
MedQuist's SpeechQ allows radiologists to dictate patient information to create reports, and then immediately edit and digitally sign the reports. That provides reports to patients' physicians and appropriate hospital departments much faster than previously possible. Before they implemented SpeechQ, the average report turnaround time for radiology reports at OhioHealth averaged 30 hours. Now reports sent to transcription are turned around in an average of 10 hours, and self edited reports are often complete in less than 30 minutes.
By documenting patient imaging results in minutes rather than hours, OhioHealth has improved patient care and improved communication between the radiologists and the hospital's referring physicians
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