With a five-year adoption mandate of electronic health records hanging over health organizations, they are faced with many hurdles—but speech recognition may very well be the critical enablement technology they have been looking for.
Speech Recognition May Speed EMR Adoption - Doctors Love Ease of Use
Not only are there huge savings, but the doctors love the
ease of use.
“I underestimated how popular this would be,” Halamka says.
“I had to progressively add phone capacity because the doctors love it so much.
Earlier on, I was saturating the number of incoming telephone lines because
they were adopting it so quickly.”
The savings and satisfaction are complemented by a jump in
hospital records management efficiency. The turnaround time between when the
patient is seen and when the hospital is able to document their visit dropped
by 90 percent, from an average of five days down to 12 hours. Radiology reports
are now delivered within a half hour.
Beth Israel may have been a big early adopter, but other
organizations are quickly learning that speech recognition is the key to
successful EMR adoption. According to a
report released last year by Datamonitor, the speech recognition market is
expected to more than double by 2013, likely due to the benefits Halamka
outlined.
His experiences aren’t isolated. A study by health care
research firm KLAS found that 76 percent of clinicians who use speech recognition
to control an EMR system report faster
medical report turnaround time, better service to patients and reduced costs.
As Gartner analyst Wes Rishel puts it, this growing
technology niche will go a long way toward closing the adoption gap.
“EMRs cannot make a dent in improving health care without
dramatically increased physician adoption. Physicians must not only adopt the
products, but begin to use them as more than electronic file drawers and
billing systems,” says Rishel, a health care industry analyst for Gartner. “Voice
input, well-recognized and well-integrated with EMR
software, is critical to closing the gap to meaningful adoption.”
A user comment on this articlePosted on: 08-19-10 | By: Anonymouswith 97% accuracy at an average of 12.5 words per line, that is an average of 3 errors every 9 lines. with the average dictation being about 40 lines, thats about 15 errors that need to be found throughout the document. If the doctor corrects these errors, wouldnt that lead to further problems in productivity? if the office staff is correcting this, wouldnt that mean that a medical office assistant (average pay of $12.71 per hour, plus employee benefits) would be correcting these notes? and if correcting the notes at that rate, isnt that almost more than transcription in itself, plus the fact that you are pulling the office assistant away from his/her normal office duties? what about the posibility of missing errors in this document?
A user comment on this articlePosted on: 10-14-09 | By: Anonymous97 to 98% accuracy? That's horrible. The personal injury attorney awaits for the 2-3% patients who are injured because of omissions and mistakes resulting from many thousands of errors and have grounds to sue for damages. Does the software company have insurance?
Most EHR deal with Voice Rec.Posted on: 09-03-09 | By: LeslieThe overwhelming majority of EHRs listed here: http://www.ehrscope.com indicate that they are compatible with VR.
FYI
-Leslie
Army provider in Afghanistan using Voice RecognitionPosted on: 09-03-09 | By: AnonymousThe Army's tactical medical recording system, MC4, is being used throughout levels of care in 14 countries by military providers, who have found time savings in the use of voice recognition software with teh MC4 system. Recently, CPT Barnstuble wrote about his experiences on this blog -
<a href="http://www.mc4.army.mil/mc4newsletter/2009_4/field_stories.asp">Provider Saves Hours with Voice Recognition Software</a>.
