Voices: Speech Recognition in the HIM World

Motivation Is the Name of the Game: How to incorporate motivation into the MT work environment

2010-02-26T16:50:00Z

[This post is written by Lauren Underhill, Marketing Specialist at Nuance Healthcare.] Motivation leads to success, and most everything we do takes some measure of it to get us off the ground and running. You may not realize it, but even simple tasks as mundane as getting out of bed in the morning require a little planning, focus, and drive. You set your alarm, try desperately not to hit snooze a second (or third) time, and ultimately get the energy to rip yourself from under the covers to start...(read more)

Show and Tell: HIM Managers Find a Solution for Transcription

2010-02-05T20:32:00Z

[This post is written by managers in HIM at Christiana Care Health Services: Stefanie Brumberg, RHIA, corporate director, HIM services, and Janet Stehl, transcription and chart completion manager] Researching technology solutions to improve your transcription process and minimize the cost for this service can be a daunting project. There are many solutions on the market, and on a high level, they all sound equivalent. How can an HIM director or transcription manager who is trying to evaluate systems...(read more)

MTs and HIM Department Celebrate the Benefits of Background Speech Recognition

2010-01-27T19:54:00Z

[This post is by Michael Fuller, Alliance Relations Manager at Nuance.] I recently had the pleasure of working with the Orlando Health HIM team as they celebrated their one-year anniversary working with Nuance's eScription solution for background speech recognition. The HIM team shared their story with the peers and management, and discussed how they were able to improve turnaround time and quality, lower costs, and take on more transcription work from its facilities using its existing team of Medical...(read more)

Doctors Concerned about Losing Unique Patient Story

2010-01-07T22:14:00Z

Nuance engaged 17,000 physicians in a survey to learn about physicians’ hopes and concerns with respect to healthcare information technology, as well as to gauge their understanding of developing healthcare government policy. Just before the Department of Health and Human Services announced its draft regulations outlining meaningful use and EHR certification, Nuance announced results from its survey , which represent responses from nearly 1,000 physicians. Study shows 96 Percent of doctors are concerned...(read more)

HCA MountainStar Health Rolls Out Backend Speech Recognition

2009-12-28T16:10:00Z

[This post is by Jeanne McMath, an Implementation Project Manager for the eScription Platform by Nuance.] In early November, I was onsite at HCA MountainStar Health in Utah to role out their new backend speech recognition software for HIM dictation and pathology. The implementation was a big project that brought eight hospitals and 25 clinics live onto the eScription platform for computer aided medical transcription by Nuance. Helping a customer transition onto a new system is a rewarding experience,...(read more)

The Gift of KLAS

2009-12-17T22:35:00Z

By Lauren Underhill, Nuance Healthcare Marketing Assistant For the sixth consecutive year, the eScription platform for computer aided medical transcription by Nuance received a Best in KLAS Award, ranking #1 in the speech recognition category. We strive for this distinction each year and are honored that our customers have rated us so highly. KLAS is an impartial research firm that is dedicated to help healthcare organizations make informed decisions on the products and services they purchase. The...(read more)

How Productivity Leads to Cost Savings

2009-12-08T16:57:00Z

[Authored by Lauren Richman, Nuance Healthcare HIM Team] Health care organizations that deploy speech recognition (SR) solutions do so in large measure to achieve significant cost savings in clinical documentation as a result of the productivity gains the technology provides. With background speech recognition, medical transcriptionists (MTs) can often edit twice as fast as transcribing a document from scratch. What does that mean for the bottom line, and how can it be measured? I have worked with...(read more)

Documentation and the EHR: How Prevea Health Provided Flexibility that Clinicians are Happy About.

2009-11-24T15:25:00Z

[This post was written by Charlie Wong, from the Nuance HIM Team] Last week we noted that one of the goals posted on our "What's Your Goal?" wall at AHIMA was "to see a working electronic health record (EHR) deployed before I retire!" This simple statement speaks to the mountain of complexity involved with deploying an EHR: not only is it a tremendous undertaking to design, configure, and deploy an EHR, but then you have to worry about clinician and staff acceptance and training. Some organizations...(read more)

Leaders in HIM Are Setting Their Goals. What's Yours?

2009-11-16T21:54:00Z

By Lauren Richman, Director of Marketing for HIM Solutions, Nuance Healthcare Welcome to Voices: Speech Recognition in the HIM World blog, where you will hear the latest commentary from a collaboration of HIM experts that ranges from real-world case examples, industry trend analysis, best practice tips, productivity boosting methods, to many other industry insider tidbits that will keep you and your HIM department up to speed and ahead of the curve. Maybe it was because of its fall timing and association...(read more)