DICT8 UK Based Medical Transcription » Pathology http://www.dict8.com Medical Transcription in the UK Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:50:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Benefits over voice recognition http://www.dict8.com/benefits-over-voice-recognition/ http://www.dict8.com/benefits-over-voice-recognition/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:49:09 +0000 admin http://www.dict8.com/dev/?p=19 In theory voice recognition is a great idea: it should enable quick and easy transcription of medical dictation. However we believe that there are a number of important benefits that may only be realised by outsourcing work to experienced medical transcriptionists:

 

  • Medical secretaries often act as safety nets for their clinicians. Doctors may make mistakes in their dictation (e.g. dosage and other clinical errors), a human secretary will notice, bring them to the attention of the clinician and correct those, whilst a voice recognition computer lacks the common sense and contextual understanding to do so.
  • The grammar and general English used in many medical dictations is poor: whilst human transcribers will endeavor to re-order the letter so that it is clear and easy to understand for the recipient, voice recognition will not be able to do so.
  • As in all other fields the great advantage that human involvement has over computer automated systems (e.g. voice recognition) is that of common sense! A letter transcribed by a computer program may contain patently absurd phrases whilst a human has the common sense to ensure that the content and context of the transcript make sense.
  • In order to use voice recognition effectively it is often necessary to train both the system into the dictating clinician’s voice and also the clinician themselves to dictate in a particular way so that the system understands them. This is not only antagonistic to the clinicians but also causes problems where new or locum staff come into a department.
  • Many voice recognition systems require a significant up-front investment. They also tend to require software and hardware installations within the Trust’s IT infrastructure: the DICT8 system requires neither.
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