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MQ buys M*modal - Now you will see change

Posted: Jul 11, 2011

for the worse, if that's possible!

Anyone who thought they'd conquer VR and make money, MQ just shot you in the foot.

MModal - me

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I typed in MModal and came up with Nuance. If they are taking over, who are they not taking over???? Dear Lord help us !!!!

nuance/MQ - ex-webbie

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Nuance owns EScription and the Dragon line of VR.

M*Modal WAS used by WMX and also by Transcend, Transolutions, to name a few that I know of.

M*Modal was the chief competitor to Nuance's EScription.

Now, I jumped from the Web to a company that uses M*Modal, and I wonder if that means we will get gobbled up by MQ???? OMGGGGG.........

Medquist - Justme

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Anyone else following healthstory.com (Medquist is on the executive committee). It used to state membership fees (which MQ pays) - not cheap! - but doesn't list this anymore. Everyone should spend some time searching this site imo.

health story - justme

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Found it, still on website. Promoter 1 year membership $15,000 and $9000 subsequent annual membership. A project they believe in....too bad they don't believe in their transcriptionists anymore. I need out of this profession; if it can be called that....

CBay already implemented and possibly owned M-Modal. CBay bought MQ, so... - Former Cbayer

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and let me tell you, M-Modal is probably worse than DQS, if that's possible.

Do you have it backwards? - Stella

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Do you have it backwards? I've heard that MedQuits bought CBAY, not the other way around. I've also never heard of M-modal in connection with CBAY

I worked at Cbay several years ago, and we used - sm

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M-Modal. And no, it's not backwards -- Cbay bought MQ.

No. CBAY definitely bought MQ, not the other way around. nm - Nickname/Alias

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nm

No, no, no -- CBAY definitely bought Q. - no name

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nm

CB did not actually buy MQ, they took control - through stocks

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If MQ has not put themselves in a such a precarious position by being crooks and sued because of it, causing the majority MQ stock holder to bail, CB would probably still not be in control. MQ would not sell to CB in the past, so CB waited like a vulture until MQ impailed themselves on a crooked dagger and grabbed the self-inflicted wounded MQ. We are now CB's puppet and another cow to milk dry.

I agree. Ihave worked on both and I thought Mmodal was worse - but from what I read, the reason they bought it is

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Medquist probably needs the Mmodal technology for the Meaningful Use criteria that will be needed when everyone has to implement EMR. I bet DQS doesn't do that and it was easier to buy a company than to re-tool DQS for the EMR.

DQS always has been M*Modal - MT in The Know

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DQS is the transcription platform and M*Modal is the VR engine that works along with DQS, two separate programs configured to work together.

DQS does not have its "own" separate VR engine. It's always been M*Modal that has handled the VR part and is configured to work alongside of/within DQS.

And that's also why MQ's ASR has always been so terrible, because it's powered by M*Modal.

When the full change is made, you'll see the difference. - One who has used both.

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DQS isn't going away - derp

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Based upon everything that I know at this time, I can say that M*Modal is not going to replace DQS. There will be a merging of the functionality, for sure, but the "flagship" transcription product will remain DQS.

No, not correct - derp

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The backend speech recognition engine is SpeechMagic, which was jointly developed by Phillips Speech Technologies and MQ. When Phillips spun off their speech group, it was purchased by (dun dun duuuun) Nuance. We negotiated to keep using SM. This move to M*Modal more of a technology thing than anything.

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