http://www.ehrscope.com/the-importance-of-voice-recognition-in-an-emr EHR, EMR and PHR Information Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:40:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 http://www.ehrscope.com/the-importance-of-voice-recognition-in-an-emr/comment-page-1#comment-13 Balderdash Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:19:33 +0000 http://ehrscope.com/blog/?p=12#comment-13 Either way, it is taking too much time away from patient care. You didn't mention the exponential increase in IT personnel that must be kept on hand for maintenance, upgrades and crashes. How much will that cost? It takes 38 seconds to dictate a returning visit and 2 minutes for a new patient. Once that is done, it goes to a professional transcriptionist and you don't have to worry about it anymore. How long does point and click take? How long does it take for the physician to make sure what he is dictating to speech recognition is actually what he is saying? Either way, it is taking too much time away from patient care. You didn’t mention the exponential increase in IT personnel that must be kept on hand for maintenance, upgrades and crashes. How much will that cost? It takes 38 seconds to dictate a returning visit and 2 minutes for a new patient. Once that is done, it goes to a professional transcriptionist and you don’t have to worry about it anymore. How long does point and click take? How long does it take for the physician to make sure what he is dictating to speech recognition is actually what he is saying?

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