Voice tech cuts transcription time and costs Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, Mass. More on CIO.com Hospital Saves With Speech Recognition Tool Can IT Solve the Electronic Health Records Challenge? How to Be a Supremely Productive Person: A Chat With John Halamka Privacy Concerns Could Stop Electronic Medical Records BIDMC, one of Harvard Medical School’s teaching hospitals, has annual revenues of $1.4 billion, 5,000 employees and handles more than 800,000 patient visits annually. How Beth Israel Saved: Using voice recognition technology, BIDMC cut patient record turnaround time to under an hour and reduced transcription costs by about 50 percent, saving over $5 million since implementation in 2003. Tools Used: Nuance’s eScription computer aided medical transcription solution Time Frame: Implemented from 2003 to 2005. Be Ready for It Since eScription is easy to use and maintain, BIDMC CIO John Halamka didn’t need to fight for buy-in from higher ups. One pitfall he did have to overcome was preparing for the rapid adoption. Make sure to scale your servers and phone lines to handle a newer, faster solution, he advises. Data Entry Ease “Getting data into an electronic health record is hard but necessary,” says Halamka. Clinicians often don’t have the time to type complex notes, yet the hospital still needs detailed patient information to determine the appropriate course of care. After testing different solutions, BIDMC landed on voice recognition because of how easy it is for clinicians to enter their information into the system without having to spend time typing it into a computer. Related content brandpost Sponsored by Huawei Beyond gigabit: the need for 10 Gbps in business networks Interview with Liu Jianning, Vice President of Huawei's Data Communication Marketing & Solutions Sales Dept By CIO Online Staff Nov 30, 2023 9 mins Cloud Architecture Networking brandpost Sponsored by SAP Generative AI’s ‘show me the money’ moment We’re past the hype and slick gen AI sales pitches. Business leaders want results. By Julia White Nov 30, 2023 5 mins Artificial Intelligence brandpost Sponsored by Zscaler How customers capture real economic value with zero trust Unleashing economic value: Zscaler's Zero Trust Exchange transforms security architecture while cutting costs. By Zscaler Nov 30, 2023 4 mins Security brandpost Sponsored by SAP A cloud-based solution to rescue millions from energy poverty Aware of the correlation between energy and financial poverty, Savannah Energy is helping to generate clean, competitively priced electricity across Africa by integrating its old systems into one cloud-based platform. By Keith E. Greenberg, SAP Contributor Nov 30, 2023 5 mins Digital Transformation Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe