Cutting Time for Physicians with Speech Recognition

Cutting Time for Physicians with Speech Recognition

In a busy Orthopedic surgeons practice in Detroit MI an orthopedic surgeon is using Speech recognition to help him document and communicate all the information he gathers on his patients - 60 in a busy day in his office.

Paperwork for this took hours to complete and included all the forms required for billing/insurance as well as prescriptions and referral letters and his own notes. Like many he used to use dictation and Medical Transcription that not only cost him money but cost him and his patient's time - in many cases days.

But now he is using gloStream gloEMR electronic medical record solution featuring clinical decision tools, document management optimized for clinical workflow and built in speech recognition technology.

In this model gloStream is aiming to replace the costly transcription that small doctors offices pay for each month with a monthly fee for access to their system which will allow them to document and provide all the tools necessary for managing patients, documents, laboratory tests etc and loose the transcription requirement by integrating Speech Recognition into the application all for $1,000

Doctors like Nallamothu gave it high marks, citing in particular its voice-recognition tool.

No details on what speech recongtion solution is powering this applciation but it uses "a Microsoft Vista platform"

You can read more about it here: HEALTH: Voice-recognition device cuts time for physicians