How does Speech Recognition Technology in Healthcare Speed up the Patient Care?

In this age, healthcare facilities put more emphasis on the safety of patients first, therefore to fasten the process of patient care most of the hospitals are started using medical transcription voice recognition software, which speeds up the whole process. It also eliminates all the paper work involved in the procedure and saves physicians as well as patient's time.

Some of the advanced EHR installations also have the feature of voice commands, using which the user can skip the pages of any record without using the keys of the laptop or without using the mouse. This feature is meant to maximize the efficiency of patient care. Still, implementation of Speech recognition technology in healthcare might need some extra effort.

IT team gives the physicians and nurses a copy of the medical transcription voice recognition software, so that they can train it to recognize their voices. They can even practice at home and once they are done with it and the software works well with their voice, the voice profiles can be put on the network of the healthcare facility. Apart from this, a complete training session is provided to all those who are going to use the software, before installing it in the systems of the facility.

Although the success of a using a speech recognition technology in healthcare not only depends upon the training provided to the users, but also depends on how well the back end supports the tool. It's important that the network is centralized and the physician can access his voice profile from any machine in the facility, then he would like to use the software without getting irritated. But in case he is not able to access it properly, good software will fail to work and will even hamper the work in your facility.

After implementing the software, it will take time for the users to get use of it, as they are still more comfortable writing notes and texts. They use to dictate earlier to the nurses but not with this technology, they feel a little awkward to work with it. So have patience and keep encouraging them to use it and you will see the change yourself.