Health Imaging & IT - January 2008 - (Page 38) Technology Review By Beth Walsh The voTes are in yeA for in U.S. Capital & Beyond SPeeCh out process.” Once the decision to implement the technology was made, a team narrowed it down to two vendors and conducted two customer site visits for each vendor. Room for improvement The hospital was outsourcing about $450,000 a year in transcription, despite having five full-time, in-house transcriptionists dedicated to radiology. The facility’s 26 radiologists performed 270,000 exams last year at the 900-bed hospital. Average report turnaround time was 38 to 42 hours. The entire implementation process took about five months. A team from the hospital went to a week-long training class and then served as resources once the facility went live. The PACS administrator became the speech system administrator. The radiologists had been on PACS for several years, Smillie says, and they “had picked up a lot of efficiencies through that. We kept digital dictation as a back up.” HealthImaging.com After years of waiting to be the next big thing, speech recognition has finally hit the tipping point with excellent accuracy rates, few bugs and smooth implementations. The technology is now used by almost half of the academic and approximately a quarter of private practices in radiology. With clinicians recognizing the need for productivity gains and more detailed and accessible documentation, and administrators interested in patient safety and cost savings, the technology keeps adding more fans. A few more speech recognition implementations like the one that occurred at Washington Hospital Center in Washington D.C., and the technology might just lose its reputation as being challenging to adopt. Savings in time and money are just some of the many benefits the hospital has experienced 38 Health Imaging & IT | January 2008 in the past year. When the radiology department implemented MedQuist’s SpeechQ for Radiology speech recognition technology last January, it was the culmination of two years of due diligence and preparation. Director of Radiology Gayle Thompson Smillie, CRA, RT, says it was “a well thought- http://HealthImaging.com
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