| Recent advances in speech recognition software | | | | that can do the speech conversion and efficiently |
| have substantially changed the way that medical | | | | distribute the workflow to the appropriate |
| transcriptionists work. It has increased the volume | | | | transcriptionists. This relieves the burden on |
| that each transcriptionist can put out and it has | | | | management of having to manually assign work |
| also made the job much easier and less tedious. | | | | and potentially having transcriptionists wait for |
| Not all dictation software is created the same, | | | | work. It also allows the medical transcription |
| and some of them will be able to provide a | | | | company to direct certain kinds of work to a |
| software platform that can assist medical | | | | medical transcriptionist who may have more |
| transcription companies with many aspects of | | | | experience in a particular area. |
| their business. | | | | The methods that the medical transcriptionists |
| It is incredible how quickly the technology has | | | | use to edit the work have also changed. Dictation |
| changed. Most people can remember when voice | | | | software can be acquired that will allow easy |
| recognition technology was only suitable for the | | | | editing and includes additional functionality like word |
| input of numbers and single words where the | | | | expanders. These are much more expensive |
| input was expected. When this software is used | | | | when they are purchased from a third party |
| for medical transcription, it must have the ability | | | | company and if they are included in the software |
| to accurately translate speech into text. It must | | | | then the editing work is likely to go much faster. |
| also be able to handle the vast array of medical | | | | Dictation software can also be programmed to |
| terms that are currently used and have the ability | | | | draw patient data or patient lists from one source |
| to identify things like sentence breaks so that the | | | | and insert it into a document. This is just another |
| output is readable by a medical transcriptionist. | | | | way that the software can handle a function that |
| Dictation software now has the ability in some | | | | was previously done in a manual way. Other |
| cases to work on a server that takes an audio | | | | useful tools that are now included in the software |
| file of some sort and converts it into text. That | | | | platform are things like a medical spell check |
| can then be delivered in this form to a medical | | | | dictionaries and the ability of the software to |
| transcriptionist who can work on something that | | | | automatically deliver the documents in a method |
| is somewhere close to a finished product. When | | | | that is requested by a client. |
| the medical transcriptionist can spend their time | | | | Dictation software has greatly improved the |
| reviewing the data and not correcting punctuation | | | | productivity of every medical transcriptionist but it |
| the medical transcription companies will realize | | | | will never take the place of a transcriptionist. |
| greater profits from reduced expenses. | | | | Somebody will always be needed to oversee the |
| Expense reduction from the use of dictation | | | | work but now they can do that in much less time |
| software to convert speech to text is just the | | | | and use an interface that is far easier to navigate. |
| beginning. Software platforms are now available | | | | |