E-Health Insider: Special Report Digital Dictation
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The cassette is becoming a thing of the past as hospitals and primary care organisations install digital dictation systems.

Daloni Carlisle reports.

Nuance

SRCTime and cost saving document creation solutions

Are you looking to meet Department of Health targets and save time and money on dictation and typing processes?

SRC’s digital dictation solutions have reduced document turnaround times to less than 24 hours and helped NHS trusts meet DH 18 week waiting time targets and discharge summary targets.

In use in more than 50 NHS trusts, our solutions automate time consuming dictation and typing tasks, promote team working and provide a far more efficient way of creating documents.

Our digital dictation solutions can be used separately or in combination with other time and cost saving technologies and methods of working, including:

  • Speech (voice) recognition
  • Wireless solutions for pathology
  • Outsourced transcription
  • PAS and EPR integration
  • And document production/management systems.

E-mail: carls@src.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7471 0130 (Carl Sargent)
Web: www.src.co.uk/contactus/eform

Olympus Olympus Professional Digital Dictation Solutions

Combining unlimited flexibility with independence, Olympus professional digital voice recorders have been designed to deliver cost-effective, streamlined solutions for the busy professional.

The Olympus DS-5000 incorporates numerous state-of-the-art features to boost flexibility, security, simplicity and reliability to increase the productivity of dictation-users in all types of business. This can be enhanced further when it is used alongside the AS-5000 Transcription Kit, which seamlessly integrates dictation and transcription into the daily office workflow.

There are specialist Olympus Dictation Centres spread across the UK which can provide comprehensive training, installation and support for the whole range of Olympus voice products. Further details can be found on our website www.olympusproline.co.uk

E-mail: ryan@olympus.uk.com
Tel: +44 (0) 1702 445 151(Ryan Braddock)
Web: www.olympusproline.co.uk

Bighand


Nuance For increased doctor productivity and better care

Nuance Healthcare Solutions is the world's leading provider of speech recognition, dictation, and transcription systems and services that simplify and enhance the production and management of electronic patient documentation.

In the UK, the company’s flagship solutions are SpeechMagic and Dragon Medical. Healthcare providers use these solutions to transform the high cost of medical reporting to a low cost, high-quality process, for increased doctor productivity and better care, through easier, more immediate access to electronic patient information.

Hospitals like HCA International and the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children have recently announced turn-around time reduction and productivity gains through SpeechMagic. In addition, more than 100,000 doctors use Dragon Medical for instant, desktop speech recognition.

E-mail: anne.durand-badel@nuance.com
Tel: +43 1 60101 1048 (Anne Durand-Badel)
Web: www.nuance.co.uk/healthcare/

Voice TechnologiesDigital dictation integration and process experts

Saving the NHS time and smoothing processes – that’s what Voice Technologies does. We craft trusted digital dictation, workflow management and speech recognition solutions around NHS sites to make a difference.

Don’t just take our word for it. We are the top supplier on the dictation framework contract for the NHS in Scotland, and have a number of awards from Philips.

In 18 months, we deployed solutions to more than 5,000 users, including multi-disciplinary specialties, in Scotland, England and Northern Ireland. Solutions including our own WinVoicePro with WinScribe can help meet targets such as the 18-week referral to treatment pathway. We are ready to deliver the same benefits to you.

E-mail: heather@voicetechnologies.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 141 847 5610 (Heather Wylie)
Web: www.voicetechnologies.co.uk

BigHand Trusts hit key targets via BigHand Digital Dictation

BigHand is the leading provider of digital dictation workflow technology for public sector and professional services organisations. BigHand is a Microsoft Gold Partner, BlackBerry ISV Partner and is the only digital dictation vendor to have been awarded Certified Status within the Vodafone Applications Portfolio.

Trusts that have recently cited the benefits of implementing BigHand technology include:

  • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which delivered same day patient discharge
  • Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which increased productivity to deliver the 18 week pathway
  • Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust, which achieved ten minute referral turnaround

Replacing tape dictation equipment with BigHand technology is proven to impact the levels of patient care delivered, enabling trusts to hit key targets.

E-mail: enquiry@bighand.com
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7940 5900(Chris Bell)
Web: www.bighand.com/healthcare

Medisec Don’t stop at digital dictation

Digital dictation can no doubt improve productivity in creating patient correspondence.

For the improvement to be significant, it is better to consider how digital dictation can best fit into the whole process of creating and delivering correspondence.

Plug digital dictation into Medisec Software and you can:

  • Automate the preparation and layout of letters using PAS system data
  • Process recordings through speech recognition software to generate correspondence automatically
  • Deliver correspondence to primary healthcare electronically saving postage and admin time
  • Measure and report accurately on the targets for acute correspondence delivery.

And what do you need to do? Just push a few buttons. Click your mouse button now and talk to Medisec about using digital dictation in a much smarter way.

E-mail: Kevin.buckley@medisecsoftware.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 7976 747358 (Kevin Buckley)
Web: www.medisecsoftware.co.uk/dictation

Crescendo Crescendo’s Professional Digital Dictation Solutions

Unlike other basic digital dictation systems, Crescendo’s digital dictation lays down the foundations for speech processing, HL7 integration and document management.

The Crescendo suite of integrated solutions was designed to help healthcare facilities streamline the most complex document workflows in the most secure, cost-effective way.

From Digital Dictation to speech processing and final report distribution, Crescendo has enabled more than 2,000 hospitals and clinics around the world to achieve true efficiency gains since 1990. Whether you are a small clinic or a multi-site healthcare group, see how Crescendo can support you through every step of the documentation cycle.

E-mail: johnb@crescendosystems.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 870 770 1717 (John Bendall)
Web: www.crescendosystems.co.uk

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