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PPV: Consider front-end speech recognition to reduce transcription turnaround time, improve documentation quality
EHR Connection, February 4, 2008
As hospitals begin the arduous transition to EHRs, many are striving to find ways to make the process more manageable and less intimidating. For some, the solution has been speech recognition-a process that converts dictation directly into a text-driven electronic medium that is easily transferred to an EHR.
That's exactly what staff members at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, a 640-bed facility in Hartford, CT, had in mind when they began considering vendors.
"Our goal was to have all of our documentation created electronically, and we needed to have a mechanism for physicians to dictate H&Ps [history and physicals], consults, and progress notes," says Carol Schuster, RHIA, MSM, former director of HIM at St. Francis. "We also wanted to provide a mechanism to assist physicians who had illegible handwriting by providing a tool which would improve documentation and communication of their progress notes."
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