Northeast Regional Medical Center reports positive experience with MedQuist

Northeast Regional Medical Center, located in Kirksville, Missouri, recently completed implementation of MedQuist's SpeechQ for Radiology system. This 109-bed facility adopted the technology to facilitate radiology report generation. 

Ron Leazer, the hospital's chief financial officer reports reduction in time necessary to generate radiology reports down from hours or even a day prior to implementing SpeechQ to finalized reports being available within minutes after the exam has been reviewed and interpreted by the radiologist.

MedQuist is a member of the Philips Group of Companies. They provide document workflow management, digital dictation, speech recognition and mobile dictation devices.

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