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Yea for Speech in U.S. Capital & Beyond Today, report turn-around time is about 14 hours. For all ICU and ED cases, the radiologists are required to dictate, self-edit and sign off immediately, Smillie says. Skyrocketing volume Alegent Health, a healthcare system in Nebraska and southwestern Iowa with nine acute-care hospitals, implemented FusionText powered by SpeechMagic from Philips Speech Recognition Systems and Dolbey about 18 months ago. Although the organization planned on a 9 percent increase in dictation volume, they’ve had 17 percent without having to increase staff. Physicians now include more details in their reports, too. “Our volume of dictation has just skyrocketed,” says Michael Westcott, MD, chief medical information officer. “We were looking for something to help with that expense.” Alegent implemented speech recognition enterprise-wide to have the most impact, says Joanna Christensen, operations director, document management. “We’re getting the bang for our buck that we wanted.” About 300 Alegent physicians are doing back-end recognition and an editor does corrections. Despite some interface troubles for front-end recognition, Westcott expects implementation of that in the radiology department and perhaps the emergency department as well, within weeks. “The goal is for the doctors to see the report, make minor edits and sign off at the same time so they don’t have to handle a document twice.” About a quarter of Alegent’s transcription volume is going through FusionText—500,000 lines every two weeks. “We’ve been able to increase transcription lines by about 25 percent without adding FTEs because a transcriptionist working as an editor can get through more reports much quicker,” Westcott says. Westcott says Alegent’s physicians have been very interested in any efforts that can reduce report turn-around times. With backend speech recognition, report turn-around times went from about two hours to about 30 minutes. The most beneficial improvements are getting dictations done as quickly as possible and now other clinicians can see the HealthImaging.com [ Joanna Christensen, operations director, document management, at Alegent Health in Omaha, Neb., is part of a team that deployed FusionText powered by SpeechMagic from Philips Speech Recognition Systems and Dolbey enterprisewide, including Immanuel Medical Center – which helped trim report turn-around time to 30 minutes. ] Although some facilities institute a dropdead, go-live date, eliminating digital dictation, “we absolutely took the opposite stance,” says Smillie. The goal was letting the radiologists learn the new system at their own pace with as much help as they needed. “We offered enough support mechanisms until they all felt comfortable,” she says. The physicians could go back to digital dictation if they felt overwhelmed by speech recognition. For the first couple of months, they used it about 30 percent of the time; after that it was rare. Leaders in Mammography rely on the Leader in Mammography Information Since 1992, MagView has been selected by the leaders in the field of breast imaging for information management, mammography reporting and patient tracking. MagView provides the most flexible and powerful solutions for hospitals, breast centers and outpatient imaging centers. Contact us today and find out how we can help you. Flexible Breast Center Reporting and Tracking BI-RADS, MQSA an HIPAA Compliant Flexible Workflow Management Digital Dictation Voice Recognition HL-7, DICOM, and CCOW enabled Many new productivity and reporting enhancements Powerful Radiology Group Practice Management Enterprise Scheduling One Step Billing Medical Record Management Film Tracking Customized Reporting Radiology Decision Support 1-888-MAG-VIEW www.MagView.com 40 Health Imaging & IT | January 2008 http://www.MagView.com http://www.MagView.com http://HealthImaging.com

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Health Imaging & IT Table of Contents On the Web The Enterprise: Is More Better? News Update A Look Inside Next-Generation Multidetector CT Convention Spotlight: RSNA in Review RIS/PACS in the Imaging Center Sweden: A Study in Mammography Excellence The Votes are in: Yea for Speech in U.S. Capital & Beyond Subspecialty Reading Services: Quality Reads, Peace of Mind, 24/7 Enterprise Lung CAD Eases Workflow Advertisers Index Company Index Coming Soon Stat Sheet

Health Imaging & IT - January 2008

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