title: Impact of voice- and knowledge-enabled clinical reporting--US example.
abstract: This study shows qualitative and quantitative estimates of the national and the clinic level impact of utilizing voice and knowledge enabled clinical reporting systems. Using common sense estimation methodology, we show that the delivery of health care can experience a dramatic improvement in four areas as a result of the broad use of voice and knowledge enabled clinical reporting: (1) Process Quality as measured by cost savings, (2) Organizational Quality as measured by compliance, (3) Clinical Quality as measured by clinical outcomes and (4) Service Quality as measured by patient satisfaction. If only 15 percent of US physicians replaced transcription with modem clinical reporting voice-based methodology, about one half billion dollars could be saved. $6.7 Billion could be saved annually if all medical reporting currently transcribed was handled with voice-and knowledge-enabled dictation and reporting systems.
authors.affiliation: Future of Health Technology Institute, Hopkinton, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Renata G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Bushko
authors.forename: Penny L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Havlicek
authors.forename: Edward
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Deppert
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Epner
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D020811:Biomedical Technology; D017046:Cost Savings; D001330:Electronic Data Processing / Q000379:methods*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D016365:Liability, Legal; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D014831:Voice