New trends in Medical Transcription

As 2008 draws closer, this is a good time to muse about the use of EMR and speech recognition as compared to more traditional transcription services.  Although Health Information Services, Inc. does support the integration of transcription into client EMRs in a variety of formats, we do not currently support speech recognized text.

Often seen as an alternative to traditional transcription, recent products have been moderately successful.  Dragon’s Naturally Speaking Medical Version 9 provides an easy alternative for those dictators who bring clear accents, good enunciation and reasonably paced speech to their dictations.

However, Dragon is not very useful for the majority of physicians who race through their dictations,often multitasking at the same time and interrupting the dictation to review their notes. Speech recognition is not yet ready for adoption by the masses.