Chris Gullo, mobihealthnews
“Touchscreen devices will never catch up to the speed of typing on keyboards, but speech recognition technology can help such devices bridge that gap. That’s the mindset of Nuance’s Jonathon Dreyer, senior manager of mobile solutions marketing at the company’s healthcare division:
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Deborah Hirsch, TMCnet
“More and more products are making it easier every day for physicians to do their jobs. Transcription software has vaulted to the head of the pack, according to Dr. Jon Wahrenberger, because it allows him to accurately capture mounds of data.
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Dan Bowman, FierceHealthIT
“Despite speech recognition (SR) technology seemingly becoming the next hottest trend with the introduction of Siri to the new iPhone 4S, it’s still a not fully trustworthy technology in the realm of radiology, wrote Dr. Arun Krishnaraj in a recent commentary published in Diagnostic Imaging. Radiologists have used such technology for report dictation for years, but more often than not, are underwhelmed by the results, he said.
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Reda Chouffani, Meaningful Health Care Informatics Blog
“It is clear that with the release of iPhone 4S and the deployment of the new Siri as part of the iOS 5, the new voice assistant will ultimately find a place in healthcare.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“When Apple announced its newest iPhone, the 4S, its most notable new feature was Siri, a voice-enabled virtual assistant. Apple acquired the company that created Siri in April 2010, just a few months after the startup’s app went live in the AppStore.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Breast-imaging reports prepared using a speech-recognition system are eight times more likely than conventional dictation transcription reports to contain major errors, according to a study of 615 such documents.
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Charlotte Hays, IWF
“When President Obama was trying to sell Obamacare, an oft-touted reform was electronic health records. EHRs were second only to “If you like your health care you can keep it” as a selling point for better, less expensive medical care. EHRs would empower patients and make information more readily available to physicians. What could go wrong?
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Michael West, Happy EMR Doctor
“The Huffington Post recently had an interesting video in which an orthopedic surgeon poo-poos EHRs because they waste time and cause him to have to type up his notes. He tries to say that dictation is the way to go, in order to ease the pain of using electronic medical records.
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Sara Jackson, FierceMobileHealthcare
“mHealth penetration of healthcare isn’t a done deal. iPads and smartphones may seem ubiquitous–and there are plenty of them in circulation in hospitals today–but the truth is most hospital electronic medical records are still evolving mobile capability, Wi-Fi access is still sketchy at many facilities, and mobile security/enterprise management systems are still in their infancy.
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Eric Wicklund, The Mobility Blog
“Clinicians who access electronic health records through their iPad won’t have to let their fingers do all the work any more.
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Marcia Gulesian, The Information Technology Forum
“A while ago, back on May 10, 2009, I posted an article that discussed speech recognition software in general and Dragon Medical 10 in particular. Click here to navigate to that post. In the two years plus since then, the field of speech-to-text translation (and the hardware available for speech-to-text translation software to execute on) has advance.
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Janet Dillione, Huffington Post
“First, do no harm” is a fundamental precept to medical ethics and a guiding light for the delivery of care. Physicians take on the laudable act of healing — a superhuman undertaking that unfortunately cannot be done with a wand or wiggle of the nose.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“As small medical practices begin implementing electronic health records, several are turning to Nuance Communications, Inc. to make the transition less painful. Last week, the vendor unveiled its Dragon Medical Practice Edition, which it says will help physicians at small practices dictate medical notes directly into any electronic health record (EHR) with increased accuracy.
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Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“Up to now, the buzz around mobile health (mHealth) technology seems to have been about its potential to make health care cheaper and more efficient while perhaps improving outcomes.
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John Moore, SearchHealthIT
“Health care providers over the years have raised a number of objections to electronic health records — they cost too much, disrupt practices already pressed for time and fail to mesh with the way medical offices work.
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Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“Nuance Communications has partnered with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) to further develop its “clinical language understanding” (CLU) process and has also licensed its technologies to the huge healthcare system.
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Paul Cerrato, InformationWeek
“A collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and Nuance Communications, makers of Dragon Medical Enterprise, will offer several advantages: Doctors at the hospital can more effectively add information into their electronic medical record (EMR) software, the facility will save on traditional transcription service fees, and on a grander scale, their development agreement will use natural language processing to crunch all this data to improve clinical decision-making.
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Lynn Kosegi, Advance
“Hello everyone: Over the last couple of weeks I had the opportunity to attend several conferences. One was the national conference of the Case Management Society of America (CMSA) (more about this visit later) which was held in San Antonio, Texas, (home of the Alamo). Then I had the privilege of presenting to two state HIMA conferences; New Jersey (NJHIMA) in Atlantic City, and then back to Texas (TxHIMA) for their state conference in Dallas.
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J. Scott Litton, Physicians Practice
“The passage of last year’s healthcare reform bill continues to have significant impacts on physician practices. More and more medical practices are transitioning away from the traditional paper chart and moving to a full featured electronic health record software package. As physicians embrace the EHR and the flow of information changes from the traditional physician narrative to a computer generated note, it is becoming increasingly difficult to add a narrative report to each patient note. There are several ways to modify this and allow physician notes to be easily modified to incorporate the all important narrative.
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Jennifer Dennard, Healthcare IT News
“If you’re reading this blog, you most likely saw the pop-up/interstitial Intel ad that asks “Is Cloud Computing Right for You?” Steve Jobs apparently thinks so. The Apple impresario announced the company’s most talked-about offering, iCloud, at its Worldwide Developers Conference this week, among a number of other new developments that have stirred Apple fans to new heights of evangelism.
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