Illinois Radiologists Self-Edit Reports, Reduce Turnaround Time

Mount Laurel, NJ, March 19, 2008 -- Provena Mercy
Medical Center, a 356-bed community-based hospital
in Aurora, Illinois, has achieved new levels of efficiency
and physician satisfaction using SpeechQ for Radiology™
, the award-winning front-end interactive speech
recognition solution from MedQuist (Pink Sheets: MEDQ.PK).
Radiologists in Provena Mercy’s Imaging department are
self-editing 90 percent of their reports, and report turnaround
time (TAT) has been reduced by more than half since the
implementation of SpeechQ.

The Imaging department at Provena Mercy performed more
than 80,000 exams in 2007. In the past, all reports were
dictated and then outsourced to a transcription company.
Once transcribed, these reports were then returned to the
appropriate radiologist for review and signature. With
SpeechQ, average report turnaround time has been reduced
from 6½ hours to 3 hours, and TAT for STAT and ED reports
is now five minutes.

source: Medquist