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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Over a quarter of acute hospitals in Switzerland operate at a loss. Hospitals such as psychiatric institutions need to improve their results. Clinics will continue to vanish completely. This is proved by new data provided by PwC. The trend can be reversed by adopting solutions to increase efficiency such as speech recognition and dictation workflow systems in medical documentation.
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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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In 2006, our company founders, Reto Heusser and Jonas Blum, started up their own business from a modest office in Seegräben in the Zurich Oberland region. It was established with the idea of creating reports of all kinds more quickly and conveniently to assist employees in document-intensive industries such as healthcare and law. In the meantime, Voicepoint has built up a considerable name for itself and is now Switzerland’s leading supplier of digital dictation systems, speech recognition software and dictation management solutions.
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Nuance has launched a new version of its speech recognition software for the medical sector – Dragon Medical Practice Edition 3, or DMPE 3 for short. The current version is available in German and English. On first glance, users will spot changes to the design. As with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13, the Dragon bar has been completely revamped. This is shown in an attractive, modern design at the top of the screen.
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With 4 regional hospitals and 2 specialist clinics, the hospital group of Ticino (EOC) is the canton’s largest healthcare provider. Over the last few years, EOC has been replacing analogue dictation equipment with digital systems. Following a tender procedure, dictation management software was evaluated to standardise the dictation workflow and manage it from a central location. Upon completion of the procedure, Voicepoint was awarded the project and by introducing Winscribe, dictation can be managed comprehensively at all sites operated by the hospital group.
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