Speech Recognition to the Rescue for a Busy Medical Group

As the article says

Physicians don’t want to keyboard

Add to that the crippling nature of costs associated with transcription and he long lag times and you have a problem that Speech recognition is well suited to fixing

So at the Camino Medical Group in Mountain View, Calif:

Today we have nearly 300 doctors across the South Bay Area self-completing 6,500 reports each week. We have reduced more than $2 million in annual transcription expenses by eliminating outside transcription of dictated reports. Of equal importance, we have created a way to migrate other physicians who were still handwriting reports to an electronic format without incurring costs.

We do still have a few physicians handwriting reports, however we have already gotten very close to our goal of 100 percent of physicians using dictation with speech recognition and 70 percent using the self-editing functionality. We estimated that without speech recognition, converting all of our handwritten reports to traditional dictation-transcription would cost more than $4 million.

You can read the article in Healthcare Informatics