Accentus Acquires Mrecord to strengthen its Ambulatory Care Technology
and Services Offering.
Ottawa, Canada // Accentus Inc. a leading provider of Integrated
Medical Document Management Solutions for the North American healthcare industry
today announced the acquisition of Mrecord
Mrecord is a leader in speech-to-text technology and has offices in Raleigh, North
Carolina and Mumbai, India. Accentus will utilize Mrecord’s technology platform
and software development team to further enhance its ambulatory care service offering.
"Mrecord founder and CEO, Tushar Parekh will continue on as Strategic Advisor,
overseeing ambulatory care operations for Asia and retain overall responsibility
for Mrecord’s India-based development centre," said Stephen Rogers, Chief Executive
Officer, Accentus Inc. "We welcome Tushar and his team and look forward to
working together to bring cutting edge technologies and best-in-class services to
new and existing ambulatory care clients in Canada, the United States, and Asia."
Accentus recently announced the acquisition of ZyloMed and Transolutions. Those
acquisitions were completed in December 2010 in the following areas:
Acute care services and advanced transcription technology
Transolutions is a technology-driven healthcare information company providing medical
transcription products and services to acute care facilities, clinics, and surgery
centres. Transolutions brings an established acute care client base and a strong
technology focus. The acquisition adds the APEX information management system enabled
with an advanced speech recognition and speech understanding engine to Accentus’
technology base driving significant cost savings and workflow efficiencies. Transolutions
CEO, Michael Carnrite will continue to lead the US-based acute care services and
Apex development teams.
Ambulatory care services
Zylomed Transcription specializes in the creation and delivery of medical reporting
for the US ambulatory market. They currently operate in over 35 states in the US
and have a large team of US-based transcriptionists. ZyloMed, a leader in the industry,
has a strong footprint in the US ambulatory market and presents a significant growth
opportunity for Accentus. ZyloMed President Susan Sumner - a key member of ZyloMed’s
dynamic and experienced leadership team – will continue to lead the US-based ambulatory
services team.
About Accentus Inc.
Accentus provides Integrated Medical Document Management Solutions – Transcription,
Document Imaging, and Remote Coding – for the creation of electronic health records.
Leading hospitals, medical clinics, and independent physicians across North America
rely on Accentus to capture accurate and timely patient health information. Combining
state-of-the-art technology, human resources, industry knowledge, and value-add
services, Accentus, delivers outsourced or co-sourced medical document management
solutions based on a pay- and scale- as-you-go business model. Accentus solutions
eliminate staffing shortages, provide access to leading SaaS based technologies,
boost business efficiencies, and ultimately save healthcare organizations time and
money. Accentus was founded in 2001, is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, and privately
funded.
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Email: media@accentus.ca
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information contained in this paper is likely to change. Mrecord will try its best
to provide updates; however, Mrecord is under no obligation to do so. Mrecord LLC
shall not have any liability to any person or entity that relies on this document.
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