CBaySystems and M*Modal Enter Strategic Partnership

ANNAPOLIS, Md., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- CBaySystems and Services, Inc., a leading provider of transcription and BPO services, and M*Modal, providers of the industry's most advanced speech understanding service, today announced that they have formed a strategic partnership.

"Our mission is to increase the speed, quality and efficiency of medical transcription," said Chris Foley, President, CBaySystems and Services, Inc. "Integrating M*Modal's AnyModal CDS into our platform meets all three of those objectives, providing our customers with new productivity gains on a global scale."

AnyModal CDS (Conversational Documentation Services) offers a unique combination of speech recognition and natural language understanding that captures a physician's meaning, transforming spoken dictation into accurate, complete, and meaningful healthcare documentation. Physicians dictate the way they always have, and M*Modal's patented speech understanding services transform the spoken dictation into a draft transcript, automatically structured and encoded according to the healthcare provider's documentation rules. What's more, the system continually learns from corrected documents to improve the accuracy of words, structure and meaning.

"Our relationship with CBay gives physicians and hospitals an incredible advantage," said Michael Finke, Chairman and CEO of M*Modal. "Our ability to quickly capture highly accurate, structured, encoded clinical documents combined with the speed and quality of CBay transcription, routing, document management and archiving makes this a premier solution in the industry."

CBaySystems provides full-serve medical transcription and document management services to thousands of leading hospitals, healthcare networks, medical clinics, and physician practices, including some of the most prestigious institutions in the world.

"We invested a lot of time evaluating speech recognition systems, and M*Modal surpassed them all" says Foley. "By continually integrating best-of-breed technologies into our technology platform, we'll continue to improve the quality and speed of medical transcription, while saving hospitals and physician practices time and money."

About M*Modal

M*Modal offers on-demand conversational documentation services that help healthcare providers capture discrete clinical information from dictation to generate complete and timely electronic medical records. The company's unique speech recognition and understanding technology platform, AnyModal CDS, is a vital tool that empowers physicians to capture clinical facts and orders from dictation without requiring any change to their normal dictation routine. M*Modal's focus is on providing hospitals, healthcare IT vendors and medical transcription service providers with the industry's most comprehensive yet most adaptable solution for creating highly accurate, structured, encoded and shareable medical documents to increase patient safety, promote continuity of patient care, and reduce cost. For more information, please visit http://www.mmodal.com.

About CBaySystems

CBaySystems and Services Inc's parent, CBaySystems Holdings [AIM: CBAY], is a leading provider of healthcare technology and business process outsourcing (BPO) services and a leading provider of transcription services to the healthcare industry. CBay delivers fully integrated transcription and receivables management solutions that improve processes, lower costs, and ultimately help physicians to provide superior patient care. Using HIPAA-compliant web-based technologies, CBay's highly credentialed medical language specialists and customer service professionals deliver the highest quality medical documentation to thousands of clients.

Since 1998, CBay has been serving major health systems, hospitals, clinics and physician practices 24 hours a day, 365 days a year -- always with a commitment to the highest standards of quality and customer service. CBay is headquartered in Annapolis, Maryland. For more information, visit http://www.cbaysystems.com.

    For additional information contact:
    Stacey Cassidy
    Director of Marketing
    CBaySystems, Inc.
    Tel: 410.940.6900 x 3195
    scassidy@cbaysystems.com