Counting out loud

The North West has made voice recognition a QIPP priority - and is seeing impressive results. Daloni Carlisle reports and also looks at the latest developments in the technology.

Speak your way to better clinical correspondence

Join us for 30 minutes on the 14 December at 12.00 for our voice recognition online webinar.

You'll be able to hear from NHS customers, see demonstrations and ask questions about voice recognition and our solutions.

To attend please register online, or simply call us on 0207 471 0100.

E-mail: dominicm@src.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 207 471 0100 (Dominic Mellor)
Web: SRC website

Nuance Healthcare. Speech recognition solutions you can trust

Improving the quality of patient care while making tangible efficiency savings is the challenge facing the NHS. To address this, Nuance Healthcare - the leading provider of speech-based clinical documentation solutions - offers a broad range of speech recognition-based products, which are enabling NHS trusts to become QIPP efficient.

Solutions such as Dragon Medical, SpeechMagic and eScription have been proven to save time and costs, while improving efficiency through streamlined, integrated workflow processes. They rise to the challenge of meeting demanding NHS clinical report turnaround targets, while providing clinical decision support by ensuring that accurate information is available at the point of care.

E-mail: anne.durand-badel@nuance.com
Tel: +43 1 60119 1048
Web: Nuance website

Dictate IT offers free digital dictation software

Dictate IT is the UK's leading supplier of medical transcription, digital dictation and speech recognition services for NHS trusts, GP practices and private medical groups. The company services 70 hospitals in 27 trusts, covering more than 25,100 beds.

Devised by practising doctors, Dictate IT's technologies and services have been specifically developed for the medical sector with its stringent requirements for confidentiality, security, accuracy and reliability. Our current clients include:

• Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
• Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust
• Barts and The London NHS Trust
• Newham University Hospital NHS Trust
• Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• St George's Healthcare NHS Trust
• North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
• St Vincent's University Hospital (Dublin).

Dictate IT is currently offering zero-cost digital dictation software with to NHS trusts in England. The offer is being made to remove cost as a barrier to trusts making use of digital dictation to encourage them to change the way they manage transcription services. For more details of the innovative solutions and commercial offering contact Dictate IT.

E-mail: sales@dictate.it
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7813 2200 (Ade Adeyemi)
Web: Dictate IT website

Ascribe voice recognition - integrated with your PAS

Ascribe's eCaMIS PAS supports clinical workflows. Our experience has enabled us to develop and deliver integrated digital dictation and speech recognition modules that are proven to improve workflow speed and efficiency.

The audio files captured are embedded into the patient's electronic record and can be accessed instantly from Ascribe's Clinical Viewer, which collects all of a patient's medical episode and timeline data.

Ascribe's system is based on the Nuance SpeechMagic speech recognition engine and is extremely accurate. For customer references please contact Ascribe.

E-mail: george.kowalski@ascribe.com
Tel: +44 (0) 870 053 4545 (George Kowalski)
Web: Ascribe website

World class digital dictation platform for free with the option of built in speech recognition

The aim of MedSpeech 3.1 is to help the NHS deliver huge efficiency savings by rationalising back-office transcription with no impact on frontline services.

MedSpeech 3.1 will be Europe's first CE certified digital dictation software, which means it will meet stringent requirements laid out by the European Union for medical software.

• With MedSpeech 3.1, speech recognition is built-in, and clinical workflow is not compromised by long training times.
• The platform provides an edit-ready draft that a medical secretary can validate and correct.
• Higher numbers of reports will be processed in the same amount of time, so deadlines are met and no documents are missed. MedSpeech has been shown to increase the through-put of medical documents by at least 50%.
• The quality of the information produced will also be higher.
• By installing MedSpeech, both public institutions and the private sector are seeing a return on investment in only a few months, because printing and distribution costs are removed.

E-mail: alexander.ryan@euromed.se
Tel: +44 (0) 207 023 9776 (Alexander Ryan)
Web: Euromed website

First choice for speech recognition and digital dictation solutions

More and more NHS trusts, GP surgeries and other medical facilities are signing up to benefit from industry leading digital dictation, speech recognition and workflow solutions from G2 Speech.

MediSpeech from G2 Speech enables efficiency improvement, cost reduction and better patient care by saving you time on all aspects of report creation. We offer a single platform of integrated digital dictation and speech recognition solutions for the medical profession.

Contact us to register for a copy of our new case study-based white paper on the benefits of speech recognition, or to find out exactly how our solutions can benefit you. We'd be happy to arrange a comprehensive demonstration or site visit to an existing NHS customer.

E-mail: Matt.Adcock@G2speech.com
Tel: +44 (0) 208 539 6541 (Matt Adcock)
Web: G2 Speech website

BigHand's speech recognition Pre-Enrolment Tool

BigHand's digital dictation and speech recognition solution for the UK healthcare market is fast becoming one of the most sophisticated products available today.

BigHand's speech recognition Pre-Enrolment Tool enables a clinician's speech profile to be trained using existing dictations in the BigHand system, resulting in a faster and more efficient way of clinicians training their voice profile. Most recently BigHand has been implemented at:

• East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust
• The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic District Hospital NHS Trust
• Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

For an evaluation of our new BigHand for Healthcare version 3.5, please email or call us.

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

Talking Point

With QIPP improvements and cost reductions universally mandated, TalkingPoint's speech recognition and digital dictation solutions are proven to save money and cut turnaround times for all medical professionals.

With a network of capable partners nationally, TalkingPoint's advanced speech technology tools are helping GPs and hospital clinicians improve working practices.

TalkingPoint's intuitive 'overlay' for Dragon (the world's number one speech engine) enables rapid integration of voice technologies with key clinical applications (such as Lorenzo, EMIS, TPP, Vision, Meditech, McKesson, Technidata, Medisec etc), providing instant reporting and streamlining workflows.

We have a growing reputation as troubleshooters in the area of complex clinical workflow integration speech solutions. Powered by Dragon -- TalkingPoint delivers what the technology promises.

E-mail: Jim.robinson@talkingpoint.uk.com
Tel:+44 (0) 1908 366169 (Jim Robinson)
Web: Talking Point website

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January 2011 call Lauren Poole
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