title: Speech recognition 2008.
abstract: Annual hospital patient visits in the United States number almost 300 million, with outpatient visits approaching one billion. While patient visits are growing at a compounding rate of 3% per year, the requirements for documentation are increasing disproportionately to that growth due to heightened regulations and the desire for greater transparency in preparation for pay for performance. Currently, dictation and transcription are the primary means of documenting these visits and populating the patient record with the relevant information. In recent years, healthcare provider organizations have reported dramatic benefits in workflow efficiency and cost-savings by adopting speech recognition technology. The KLAS study reviewed speech recognition systems in an effort to determine the state of the solutions, vendor scoring, physician usage and quantifiable benefits.
authors.affiliation: KLAS, Orem, Utah, USA.
authors.lastname: Ben Brown
authors.forename: Stacilee Oakes
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: Whiting
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D010820:Physicians; D049250:Speech Recognition Software / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*