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New Alliance Creates Automated Offering that Simplifies Report

Creation, Saves Clinicians Time, Money

A-Life Medical, Inc., a leader in advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology for the medical industry, today announced that it has signed an agreement with the Integrated Healthcare Systems (IHS) division of Dictaphone Corporation, a leader in health information management systems, software, and services.

This agreement will enable Dictaphone to incorporate A-Life's technology into its dictation, transcription and report management systems. Dictaphone plans to integrate LogiCoder(TM) technology with their Enterprise Express(R) digital dictation and transcription system, which is an enterprise-wide voice and text management system used in the creation of patient records. A-Life's LogiCoder, with NLP technology, will automatically generate ICD-9, CPT, and E&M service level coding from the electronic text reports produced by the Dictaphone Enterprise Express system. Combined, the technologies provide a solution that seamlessly automates and integrates transcription and coding, simplifying the report generation process and saving clinicians' time and money.

"With the integration of LogiCoder with Dictaphone's quality transcription systems, we have addressed the number one problem in the coding industry -- the receipt of electronically transcribed and corrected charts that are ready for coding," said Eric Corkhill, vice president of sales and marketing for A-Life Medical, Inc. "Additionally, Dictaphone's extensive client base of over 1,000 hospitals and several hundred thousand physicians, will allow us to gain market access as a component in Dictaphone's full solution offering."

The first offering, automated coding for Emergency Medicine, is currently beta testing at United Hospital in Port Chester, New York. Following a successful outcome, Dictaphone plans to offer this coding capability to its many user hospitals, as well as through its new Web-based service, which offers on a pay-for-use application service provider (ASP) basis digital dictation, speech recognition, natural language processing and report coding services via Internet access.

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