| Medical voice recognition technology has reshaped | | | | savings as there would be no more need to hire |
| the landscape of medical documentation. Now, | | | | medical transcriptionists. Medical information could |
| physicians and medical facilities do not need to | | | | also be made accurate and reliable. |
| wait for many days or weeks just to document | | | | There could be possible disadvantages to using |
| important medical data about patients. With the | | | | medical voice recognition in medical documentation |
| advanced medical transcription technology, | | | | processes. First, there could be limitations in the |
| information could be easily filed in electronic | | | | technology, especially when it comes to |
| medical records so that retrieval of data could be | | | | recognizing phonetics, which is not also spared on |
| made accurately, quickly, and conveniently. | | | | human transcriptions. For example, the word |
| In the past, physicians needed to dictate their | | | | ‘urine’ could be transcribed by a voice |
| narratives in tape recorders, which need to be | | | | recognition software as ‘you’re in,’ |
| turned over to a third-party transcription services | | | | the word ‘nitrate’ could be ‘night |
| provider within a few days for transcribing of | | | | rate,’ and so on. To remedy the situation, the |
| information. The process is long, winding, and | | | | services of professional medical transcriptionists |
| tedious, aside from being costly. It usually takes | | | | may still be required. |
| about a week at the fastest rate to complete a | | | | As usual, the output of medical voice recognition |
| medical transcription job. The fees could also be | | | | program needs to be proofread. Many |
| significant when accumulated in a year. Thus, | | | | practitioners and transcriptionists complain that it |
| medical transcription has made itself a lucrative | | | | usually takes longer to proofread and correct |
| sector of the medical industry. Now, with the | | | | errors than to transcribe the voice recordings. |
| advent of medical voice recognition technology, | | | | This is one limitation that designers and |
| medical documentation would not need to rely to | | | | manufacturers of the technology are still working |
| medical transcriptionists. Medical facilities could | | | | on. Many doctors also complain about accuracy of |
| have their text format data on their own just by | | | | transcriptions and the quality. There are more |
| installing and using appropriate voice recognition | | | | sophisticated programs that could offer more |
| and transcription software. | | | | solutions and fewer setbacks, but they are more |
| The advantage of the technology is quite obvious. | | | | expensive than the rest. |
| Time is significantly cut short. Now, medical | | | | Lastly, investing in medical voice recognition could |
| documents could be transcribed for electronic filing | | | | be costly. One-time costs for purchasing and |
| in just a day or two as against a week in the | | | | installing the software could be expensive, but |
| conventional practice. Medical facilities could benefit | | | | many users attest that it would all be worth it. In |
| significantly from that. Costs overall could also be | | | | the end, disadvantages would be outweighed by |
| reduced. When taken annually, there could be | | | | the practical advantages of using the technology. |
| hundreds of thousands of accumulated cost | | | | |