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 feature Key IT initiatives reshape the CIO agenda While cloud, cybersecurity, and analytics remain top of mind for IT leaders, a shift toward delivering business value is altering how CIOs approach key priorities, pushing transformative projects to the next phase. By Mary Pratt May 30, 2023 10 mins IT Strategy IT Leadership opinion Managing IT right starts with rightsizing IT for value While there are few universals when it comes to saying unambiguously what ‘managing IT right’ looks like, knowing how to navigate the limitless possibilities of IT is surely one. By Thornton May May 30, 2023 6 mins Digital Transformation IT Strategy IT Leadership brandpost Designing the campus of the future starts with high-quality 10Gbps connectivity By Huawei May 30, 2023 4 mins Network Architect Networking Devices Networking feature Red Hat embraces hybrid cloud for internal IT The maker of OpenShift has leveraged its own open container offering to migrate business-critical apps to AWS as part of a strategy to move beyond facilitating hybrid cloud for others and capitalize on the model for itself. By Paula Rooney May 29, 2023 5 mins CIO 100 Technology Industry Hybrid Cloud 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