MedQuist nets Anthelio contract

Jeff Byers | | Health Exec | Economics
MedQuist Holdings, a provider of integrated healthcare clinical documentation tools, has been awarded a contract by Anthelio Healthcare Solutions of Dallas to implement MedQuist’s DocQment Enterprise Platform (DEP) speech recognition and clinical documentation in eight Anthelio client hospitals across five states for use by its medical transcriptionists.

DEP will replace existing technology currently in use by Anthelio, a health IT service provider, to assist efficiency and productivity through an automated clinical workflow management, the Franklin, Tenn.-based MedQuist stated.

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