In an effort to reach out and improve the functionality of smaller medical practices, Nuance Communications has designed and released a new speech technology program. The Dragon Medical Practice Edition is the latest advancement in the company’s medical voice recognition solutions. The purpose of the Dragon Medical Practice Edition is to enable clinicians to create medical notes and have them go directly into the EHR or Electronic Health Records system. This can also be done in real time with this program.
The voice recognition system means clinicians are more readily available to their patients. These professionals can spend more time interacting with their patients instead of sacrificing this in order to save time for writing chart notes. The new release of this software is reported to be at least a 15 percent increase over previous versions. This means the efficiency, accuracy and added benefits are especially beneficial and crucial to small medical practices.
What It All Means
The bottom line is that the Dragon Medical Practice Edition presents a cost-effective approach to helping small medical offices be able to directly have data go to EHR. Not only that but it acts as a reliable solution to getting this particular task done. This should help alleviate some of the legal, financial and technology hindrances that can get in the way of small practices being able to operate the way they should. It is a good way for Nuance Communications to be able to reach out and extend a helping hand to physicians in smaller practices.
The figures for the results are a bit surprising. According to a representative at Nuance Communications, the new system can help more than 20 percent of smaller medical offices make the switch to using EHR. This also results in these offices saving as much as $10,000 annually per clinician. The reason for the savings is that the Electronic Health Records system greatly lowers the expense for medical transcribing.
Other Positive Side Effects
The new Dragon Medical Practice Edition reduces the amount of time it takes to get medical reports back. Additionally this system also helps increase the level of comprehensiveness for patient’s medical records, which results in vastly improved accuracy. So far, the feedback and reviews from small medical practices that have made the switch has been more than favorable.
Physicians and clinicians both agree the Dragon Medical Practice Edition by Nuance Communications is helping alter the way their patients are being seen. It enables users to document what their patient has to say and then have it documented thanks to speech-to-text capabilities. This results in much more detail being included in the patient’s records and enables the medical professional to actually have more attention to focus on the patient. Also without having to take notes or try to jot things down after, the patients are granted more time and can feel more important. Some of the updates to this version of the software includes enhanced speech recognition abilities and has better filtering in place for better sound quality and distinction to transcribe speech-to-text.
