2010 Board of Directors Candidates

Robert H. Harvey, President and CEO, TRS, LLC Institute (TRSi)
Tony Incardona, Senior Vice President/Managing Partner, Outsourcing Solutions, Inc.
David E. Owen, Product Line Marketing Manager for Document Creation and Document Management, 3M Health Information Systems, Inc.
Linda M. Sullivan, President, New England Medical Transcription, Inc.
Melinda Owen, President, Notes N Quotes, Inc.
Stephen Gaus, President and CEO, Opti-Script, Inc.

David E. Owen
Product Line Marketing Manager for Document Creation and Document Management, 3M Health Information Systems, Inc.

BioSketch

My introduction to clinical documentation came in 1987, when I implemented the first speech recognition system for clinical documentation (Kurzweil’s VoiceRAD) in New York City radiology practices. Over the next 12 years at Kurzweil and then Lernout & Hauspie, I played a leading role in establishing the foundation for the principle technologies that transcription companies currently seek: back-end speech recognition and Natural Language Processing.

Later, as VP of Operations for a small transcription company, I learned first-hand that transcriptionists will go work for a competitor if their tools slow them down. This understanding helped me when I became head of Product Management for Dictaphone’s ichart, where I managed relationships with many transcription companies.

Today, as Product Line Marketing Manager for 3M Health Information Systems, I seek to leverage 3M’s experience in coding to enable the transcription industry to expand into clinical documentation improvement. I believe it is possible to provide a viable and vibrant future for transcriptionists and the companies they work for, while improving U.S. competitiveness through better patient care, more appropriate reimbursement and reduced malpractice legal costs.

I have spent most of my 22-year career applying speech recognition and Natural Language Processing to improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of clinical documentation. I would like now to apply my experience for the greater good of the transcription industry to create a rising tide of opportunity that will encourage cooperation among MTIA’s membership.