Medicare Legislation Provides Incentives for ePrescribing
By Neil Versel, contributing editor

The Medicare program could save as much as $156 million over the next five years from error avoidance and efficiency gains from a newly authorized electronic prescribing incentive program, federal officials say. More...

Executive Interview
Speech Recognition Gaining Ground in Health Care
By Cindy Atoji

The speech recognition market in health care is expected to more than double in size between now and 2013, according to Datamonitor, a growth driven by increasing use of technology and the lure of potential cost-savings. Using speech recognition for not just transcription and dictation, but clinical decision support, will take voice to the next level, says Klaus Stanglmayr, strategic product marketing manager for Philips Speech Recognition Systems, which has over 8,000 installations worldwide of its SpeechMagic document creation platform. “Improvements in speech recognition have allowed it to be used in conjunction with electronic medical records, picture archiving, workflow applications, and more,” says Stanglmayr. Digital HealthCare & Productivity spoke with Stanglmayr about improvements in speech recognition and how it is increasing workflow efficiency and productivity.

DHP: How far has speech recognition come?
STANGLMAYR: I joined Philips 12 years ago, and things have changed quite significantly. In the beginning, you had to spend an hour or more to train the system, but now, it takes only a few minutes, and there are a few users who don’t train at all. The system uses intelligent language modeling software, so every time you use it, it will adapt and optimize to your particular way of speaking. Accuracy rates have improved, increasing the quality of the reports. If you look at radiology, for example, users will dictate, correct errors, and then sign-off, instead of having to record and then send it off to a transcriptionist, which has cut down on turn-around time. More...

Deals, Deployments & Short News
By Allison Proffitt, Digital HealthCare & Productivity staff

DOD chooses Vangent, CCHIT releases 2007 numbers and call for Commissioners, and a call for nominees for the AHIC Board. More…

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