Shahid, The Healthcare Guy, recently added a guest post from Nick van Terheyden, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer (Clinical Language Understanding) from Nuance Healthcare (Yes, they make Dragon Naturally Speaking – DNS) about making the most of speech recognition with an EMR. Here are the major points that Nick made:
- Have the right hardware installed.
- Intelligent application Coexistence.
- Use good quality microphones and sound recording equipment.
- Environmental Considerations.
- Create a Standard and Replicate.
- Anticipate Resistance. Expect resistance.
- Quick Portable Guides.
- Preparation.
- Horses for Courses.
- Identify champion(s).
I think that voice recognition is fascinating. Personally, I haven’t used it all that much. I certainly write a lot and so you’d think it would be perfect for me. I guess the reason I haven’t done it is first that I type pretty fast and second the extra time that it takes me to type the post helps me to formulate my ideas into a more coherent manner.
People are generally surprised to find out that I don’t proofread these blog posts (most of the time). It’s definitely a different type of publishing, but for the most part I build an idea in my head and then formulate the content for the blog as I type it. I’m not sure how well that would work with voice recognition. Although, maybe this week I’ll try it and see how it goes.
This said, I think many doctors have well trained dictation skills and so the idea of using speech recognition to capture their documentation into an EMR is a very natural thing. Hopefully the above ideas will help out those that are interested in pursuing speech recognition.
