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Kristen Fischer, DOTmed News | February 02, 2012
From the January/February 2012 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
“You’re always going to have doctors that simply want to transcribe…they don’t want to be editing,” he adds.
Belton predicts that the majority of doctors will be using real-time front-end speech platforms. But even five years down the road, 20 to 30 percent will still be using more traditional methods that incorporate to EMRs.
For those seeking a more traditional system that incorporates speech recognition while still utilizing a transcriptionist, the MedQuist-M*Modal DocQment myWAY may be the product they need. It incorporates real-time speech recognition and physician self-editing, so doctors can choose a method that works best for them: review and edit speech-recognized documents similar to Nuance’s Dragon or send a speech-recognized document to a transcriptionist, like Nuance’s HIM. MedQuist-M*Modal’s DocQscribe is a Web-based transcription and editing platform used by transcriptionists that enables them to edit and finalize reports.
On the horizon: going mobile, cloud computing
There are about 100 existing EMRs that have licensed Nuance’s solutions into their mobile platforms using the Healthcare Development Platform, a cloud-based development system. M*Modal-MedQuist—formerly two separate entities that merged this past summer—are launching mobile systems so physicians with a smartphone or tablet can use it to dictate, transcribe and sync data with their EMR.
“Physicians are very mobile folks,” Belton says. “There’s no question that there will be more work done on mobile.” Not all doctors see patients in one location; many private practice doctors need to be able to document patient visits whether they are in their office or in a hospital.
Using tablets and smartphones to dictate and transcribe patient data is a growing trend. Dragon Medical Mobile Recorder lets clinicians dictate information at the point-of-care with an iPhone. The dictations are then securely uploaded to Nuance’s background speech recognition platforms for rapid document turnaround.
There is a wealth of other applications that let physicians retrieve information using mobile devices—those are nothing new in the grand scheme of medical technology, though new configurations and variations continue to emerge. One of the latest apps to incorporate speech recognition is Nuance’s PowerScribe 360 Mobile App. It gives radiologists access to radiology reports using their iPhones, and also lets them dictate a search query and receive results from sources such as Google.
