Real-Time Speech Recognition Enhances Healthcare Performance

The latest version of real-time speech recognition software for the medical desktop enables doctors to generate clinical letters and navigate clinical systems conveniently and efficiently.

The Dragon Medical 11 maximizes healthcare professionals' productivity by enabling them to save time, reduce costs, improve information accuracy, and raise the quality of service and care delivered to patients. Dragon Medical 11 enables clinical letters to be dictated directly up to three times faster than typing, with accuracy rates of up to 99% that ensure clear, accurate, and timely clinical letters. Patient report confidentiality and compliance is assured through the robust encryption of audio and text files. The software has been optimized for nonnative English speakers as well, and new medical vocabularies cover almost 80 specialties and sub-specialties.

Helping to speed up the clinical letter creation process are convenient new features including Electronic Health Record (EHR) support, which makes it easier to navigate and dictate within existing clinical and diagnostic support applications, and a "hidden mode" which enables users to click anywhere within a clinical application while dictating, and then to add text where necessary afterwards. The inclusion of templates also saves time, automating form-filling applications by adding voice enabled fields in dictation templates. A customizable PowerMic hand-held microphone allows buttons to be programmed to run any Dragon Medical function or user voice command. Dragon Medical 11 is a product of Nuance Communications (Marlow, United Kingdom), and is compliant with the UK National Health Service (NHS; London, United Kingdom) Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) program.

"Dragon Medical can play a role in increasing the quality of patient care, and safety, through improved clinical letter turnaround time and document consistency. It also has a proven track record in reducing costs," said Frederik Brabant, MD, Nuance Healthcare's marketing director. "For many healthcare organizations, Dragon Medical will become a key component in achieving their QIPP objectives and will assist in addressing the challenges faced by medical professionals to deliver tangible improvements in both patient care and the bottom line."

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