Several hospitals, medical practices and legal firms have optimised their processes using our digital dictation and speech recognition solutions. In the current issue of our newsletter, we present three success stories and examples from the medical and legal field.
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As of October 1, 2016, iSpeech AG will be selling its “Digital Dictation and Speech Recognition” division to Voicepoint AG. This takeover will allow Voicepoint to further extend its leading position on the Swiss market.
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Nowadays, the Smartphone is an indispensable part of daily healthcare practice for many doctors. Nevertheless there is a certain degree of unwillingness to introduce Smartphones as working equipment in hospitals. Reasons for this include issues concerning support and maintenance, data protection and the technical integration of equipment into a hospital’s IT infrastructure. These issues also apply to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) concepts, although there are at least new approaches to establish Smartphones as working tools more simply and quickly and to increase their acceptance.
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For four years, hospitals in acute somatics have used the flat-rate per case system SwissDRG. Two new hospital tariff systems are planned for January 2018: TARPSY for psychiatry and ST Reha for rehabilitation. In order to identify any undesirable developments at an early stage, the research institute gfs.bern has been conducting annual representative surveys with hospital doctors on behalf of the Swiss Medical Association (FMH) since 2011.
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The majority of Swiss clinics and hospitals are already using a digital dictation system or are planning to introduce a similar solution. Digital dictation management offers a number of improvements over old-fashioned analogue technology, namely concerning process efficiency, security, quality of work and convenience. However, these advantages will not be noted if analogue dictation devices are merely replaced with digital ones.
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