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In the Healthcare industry, it is no secret that rising costs are making it more difficult to achieve a level of service and care that patients have come to expect.  Much of these cost issues are a direct result of inefficient processes.  We have created SpeakWrite For Medical to directly address the inefficiencies related to the medical reporting process.  By implementing the SpeakWrite Solution, medical departments and practices can achieve radical cost reductions through process takeout.  This translates into happier patients, happier physicians and happier administrators. 

Through the SpeakWrite solution, customers can achieve the following benefits:

  • Dramatically reduce the cost of transcription which Increases Your Profits

  • Reduce reporting errors which Reduces Medical Malpractice Risk

  • Provide instant report turn-around saving you time, money and Improving Quality of Service to Your Customers

  • Limit interruptions from referring Physicians thereby Increasing Your Productivity

  • Extensive business reports help to Increase Revenues and Manage Costs

  • Compress exam cycles which Increases Productivity

SpeakWrite for Medical is a leading solution for Medical Reporting and Analysis. The SpeakWrite Suite is a family of products that includes the following:

SpeakWrite Reporting System

The SpeakWrite Reporting System is the reporting component that allows physicians to construct medical reports.  Typical reporting mechanisms involve some type of manual based transcription. With the SpeakWrite system, Physicians can easily and quickly construct, review and sign medical reports in less time and at a fraction of the cost of traditional transcription.  

Utilizing a powerful and novel reporting paradigm, our approach succeeds where other structured reporting tools have failed.  By focusing on process workflow, the SpeakWrite Graphical User Interface (GUI) guides the Physician quickly through the reporting process of their choosing.  With optional features such as Information System integration and voice recognition, the Physician can complete the round trip exam process quickly, more accurately and less expensively than by other reporting means.

SpeakWrite Screen Shot

At the heart of the Reporting System is a technology we call ICE.  ICE is a very intelligent agent that among other duties can scan medical reports for critical care information that can be analyzed by business people to make better informed business decisions.  One of the downsides of transcription is the overwhelming abundance of paper and word processing based documents.  Those documents contain mountains of information that cannot be cost effectively utilized to make business decisions.  With ICE technology, all that information can be mined and with no extra burden on Physicians or data entry personnel. 

SpeakWrite Repository

At the heart of the SpeakWrite platform is the very robust and powerful SpeakWrite Repository.  The repository is a powerful database that can store and manage all medical reports either generated by the SpeakWrite Reporting System or other legacy means such as transcription service documents or other reporting means.  Imagine having just one office machine that can catalog, search and provide a portal to all department reports independent of the source.  That is what the Repository can do for you.  Some of the stated benefits are:

  • Automatically consolidates all current and legacy department medical reports which Reduces Hardware and Frees Up Office Space

  • Seamlessly works with SpeakWrite Integrator for Real-time Report Access

  • Provides one common view for all department medical reports which Saves Staff Time

  • Eliminates multiple office machines and reduces office desktop clutter which Frees Up Premium Office Space for More Important Items

SpeakWrite Viewer

The SpeakWrite Viewer is a software product that enables a read-only snapshot of final reviewed reports.  Once reports are reviewed and signed, they can only be viewed.  This is ideal for office staff who need to communicate with other physicians, current and former patients as well as insurance companies.  Daily Physician interruptions due to inadequate or incomplete information have become a necessary evil with today's processes.  The SpeakWrite Solution can make these interruptions a thing of the past.  With the SpeakWrite Viewer, healthcare personnel can enjoy the following benefits:

  • Empowers office staff to route medical reports which Improves Customer Service.

  • Reduces or eliminates Physician interruptions which Makes Them More Productive and Less Stressful

  • Batch printing capabilities which Saves the Staff Time

  • Includes fax and e-mail support for seamless communication to outside parties which Improves Customer Service

  • Incorporates SpeakWrite Analysis Reports which Enables Administrators to Make Better Business Decisions

SpeakWrite Integrator

Healthcare departments are not islands.  They need to communicate with other departments.  For example, patient information (e.g. Name, Birth date, Referring Physician,  etc.) is usually contained in a Hospital Information System (HIS), Radiology Information System (RIS) and many other information systems that can serve as a source of information throughout the organization.  The SpeakWrite Integrator makes application integration to these systems easy by communicating with other disparate systems and by saving data entry and other manual efforts.  The Integrator can:

  • Transparently "push" and "pull" information from/to Information Systems (e.g. HIS/LIS/RIS/PACS) which Provides Real-time Access to Reports

  • Removes repetitive data entry requirements which Frees Up Staff for Other Important Duties

  • Instantly share reports with hospital personnel, insurance companies, and outside Physicians which Improves Customer Service

SpeakWrite Design Studio

What makes SpeakWrite a platform is the ability to create different knowledge bases for different applications.  A knowledge base is the item that allows SpeakWrite to understand the language of different medical specialties.  For example in Healthcare, there may be a knowledge base for Radiology and another for Pathology.  Creating knowledge bases and extending existing ones provides the SpeakWrite platform with the "smarts" to perform reporting and analysis functions.  The suite comes with Design Studio, a tool that allows users to create and extend SpeakWrite knowledge bases so users get the reporting style and vocabulary that they want.  The knowledge base is user dependent so every user can potentially have his own customized knowledge base. 

Though knowledge bases can be complicated and intricate, the Design Studio was built to make knowledge base construction and modification easy and quick.  The benefits of Design Studio are:

  • Graphical user interface which Makes Design Studio Easy to Use

  • Allows SpeakWrite to be flexible which Gives Physicians Their Reporting Styles Rather Than a Canned Factory Built Style

  • Allows SpeakWrite to be adaptable which Allows Physicians to Change Reporting Characteristics Anytime, Anywhere

SpeakWrite Template Designer

SpeakWrite is all about having it your way.  Using the Template Designer, customers can tailor the final printed report formats to their liking.  Through the template designer, users can easily create their own designs which incorporate these features and benefits:

  • Full word processing support which Allows for Creation of Letterhead and Saves Printing Costs

  • Customized final reports for outside groups which Improves Customer Satisfaction 

  • Support for electronic signature files which Saves the Reporting Physician Time

  • Flexible content and style which Increases Organizational Image