Health Imaging & IT - January 2009 - (Page 24)

IMAGING TOOLS By Sarah Lamberti SPEECH USERS M on Newfound Efficiencies While speech recognition technology has proven its ability to reduce transcription costs and improve report turn-around times, these beneﬁts are clearly becoming old news. Healthcare facilities now demand frontend and back-end systems that do more than just replace dictation and transcription, offering add-on tools that help with overall workflow in a format that is easy to use. After all, the key to speech recognition’s success is its adoption among radiologists and physicians. Speak Out any speech offerings are integrating dictation software into various systems, touting the capability to expedite the radiology workflow and empowering the user with more control. This is due in part to easier to use interfaces, auto texts and templated reports and single worklists from which to streamline workflow. Report creation is quicker as is communication with referring physicians and specialists. Speech recognition is clearly gaining traction across imaging facilities large and small. Orchestrating from the telerad cockpit At University Radiology Group in central New Jersey, the reason for adopting speech recognition goes beyond traditional speech capabilities, bringing to the user interface and the ability to consolidate orders from multiple systems into one single platform, says CIO Alberto Goldszal, PhD. They chose RadWhere for Radiology from Nuance. “The key factor for us was the Workflow Orchestration function to create a single cockpit for dictation,” he says, adding that they have been using the system for 18 months. Covering six hospitals and eight imaging centers throughout the state, with a wholly owned teleradiology subsidiary performing nighthawk coverage for ERs, University performs approximately 850,000 reads each year. All eight imaging centers use the frontend speech recognition system for remote reading services. The difficult part about reading for multiple locations is the consolidation of multiple dictation systems, to get a single platform from which to dictate all incoming orders, Goldszal says. From RadWhere, users can open incoming orders from multiple sites while returning reports to the appropriate hospital or facility RIS from a single workstation. Reports can be created in a variety of dictation styles, and data extraction tools can allow for productivity and outcomes analysis. HealthImaging.com [ Radiologist Scott Fargher, MD, dictates as he reads PET images on a GE Healthcare Centricity RIS-IC workstation at Radiology and Imaging Specialists’ Lakeland in Florida. The facility recently added M*Modal’s Advanced Speech Understanding speech engine that is embedded in the RIS ] 24 Health Imaging & IT | January 2009 http://www.HealthImaging.com

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