Why Having Speech Recognition for Your EHR Software Is Critical
Of course it is a given that medical professionals are a busy group of people, and anything you can do to give them an advantage in managing their time will be of vital importance. One area where you can really save time is in speech recognition.
Instead of requiring your team members to type in everything during a patient encounter, they can simply speak in a calm voice and let the computer turn what they say into machine-readable text.
If your experience with using speech recognition is confined to talking with a customer service voice response system or asking your smartphone for the location of a restaurant, you should know that speech recognition technology has evolved significantly for use in medical practices. You will definitely want to take advantage of this technology to streamline your operation.
No Need to Hire a Transcription Service
With speech recognition for your EHR software, your practice will no longer have a need to hire an outside transcription service. Over the long run, your practice should save money using EHR software and speech recognition.
Your staff should also expect to save time, as you won’t have to send out the voice recordings for transcription and then wait for the transcriber to send you back the final resulting text files.
Help Your Medical Professionals Save Time
Imagine a nurse or doctor simply speaking in a normal tone and having everything he says be instantly transcribed into text in the patient’s record. This can be a big time-saver, especially when you consider how long it can take to type something and then go back to fix any typographical errors or spelling mistakes.
With speech recognition, your spoken words quickly appear on the screen and you can verify their accuracy in real time.
Specialized Vocabularies
Every medical specialty has its own share of jargon, and to that end, speech recognition software typically works with specialized vocabulary modules. For example, a gastroenterologist will often use terms that won’t come up as often in a neurology exam.
Adding dedicated vocabularies will only help to speed up the process of speech recognition in your practice.
Because speech recognition now works so well with EHR software, owners and managers of medical practices are doing themselves a disservice by not taking advantage of this timesaving technology.
Key Takeaways
- Modern speech recognition technology is speaker-independent, which means you don’t have to train the computer to understand you.
- Speech recognition lets medical professionals enter crucial data about patients quickly and efficiently.
- Medical practices can use speech recognition instead of hiring an outside voice transcription service.
- Specialized vocabulary modules make speech recognition work even more efficiently in modern medical practices.
About Stephen O'Connor
Stephen O'Connor is the Director of Brand and Digital Marketing, responsible for many aspects of Advanced Data Systems Corporation’s (ADS) marketing, including product marketing, customer acquisition, demand generation, brand, brand design, and content marketing.
Stephen has more than 20 years of healthcare industry experience. Prior to ADS, Stephen spent 11 years at Medical Resources Inc. (MRI), most recently as the Manager of Marketing & Internet Services, where he and his teams were responsible for all marketing efforts and the market positioning of MRI’s services.
Stephen spends his day's planning, writing, & designing resources for the modern healthcare professional.