How voice recognition technology can profoundly change the health care industry

Considerably greater accuracy

Before the transition to voice recognition technology took place, most healthcare industry practitioners were effectively forced to rely on (sometimes under-qualified and ill-trained) medical transcriptionists. Some of which were not just inaccurate, but also relatively slow in their output.

Due to the fact that data was being processed manually, the element of human error was ever present and was moreover, roughly analogous to the proverbial sword of Damocles. Especially in an industry as sensitive as the healthcare sector where a single misspelled medicine is the ultimate recipe for disaster.

However, the advent of voice recognition technology is fast ensuring that the age of fully manual digital dictation is drawing to a close. As a matter of fact, the clinicians and physicians in today’s hospitals and other medical facilities do not have to wait for the transcriptionist to become free.

Now it is possible to easily and safely document all of the patient’s important data themselves on any device that they may be comfortable with such as their smartphones, tablets, laptops and even workstations. The transcriptionist will then merely have to proof-read the document and send it out accordingly.

Overall improvements in productivity

Electronic medical records or EMRs are now been implemented vigorously not just in the U.K but also all over the world. When such EMRs are seamlessly merged with voice recognition technology, it has been known to increase productivity all across the board, thereby leading to a massive and substantial increase in the doctors’ ability to be able to interact with more patients than they'd previously been able to.

In fact, thanks to voice recognition technology, physicians, clinicians and other health care workers who document healthcare through voice transcription are now able to attend to considerably more patients than ever before.