BigHand wins Princess Alexandra contract
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust has signed a contract with BigHand for a trust-wide implementation of its digital dictation software. The Harlow trust says the technology is being rolled across all directorates and will be used by more than 600 users when it is fully implemented. Users will be able to record information into […]
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Nuance buys UK’s Spinvox
UK technology firm Spinvox, which converts voicemails into texts, has been bought by US speech recognition firm Nuance for a knockdown €71m (£64m). Nuance is a dominant player in the healthcare applications of digital dictation and voice recognition technologies. Spinvox had been regarded as one of the most promising British technology firms, but had failed […]
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BigHand cuts practice turnaround times
BigHand says that its digital dictation workflow technology has improved the turnaround time for patient notes by 40% at one GP practice. BigHand technology has replaced analogue tape dictation equipment for ten GPs and five secretaries at the Yaxley Group Practice in Peterborough. Before the installation, GPs often found that the tapes would break and […]
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Seven win £20m digital dictation deals
Seven suppliers of digital dictation, voice recognition and outsource transcription software have been awarded a framework contract covering the supply and deliver of systems to more than 200 NHS trusts across the country
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Bupa selects MedSpeech digital dictation
Sweden’s Euromed Networks and e-Dict have been awarded a contract to supply MedSpeech digital dictation with integrated SpeechMagic speech recognition for the radiology department at the private Bupa Cromwell Hospital, London. e-Dict is the UK distributor of MedSpeech, a dictation and speech recognition solution for healthcare developed by Euromed Networks. MedSpeech is integrated with Nuance’s […]
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Wolverhampton supports Lean with SRC
Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust is to roll out a digital dictation system to 500 users as part of plans to improve efficiency by eliminating waste from its patient pathways. The trust piloted the digital dictation and voice recognition system supplied by SRC in its diabetes department, before committing to the wider deployment. It found […]
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Worthing and Southlands deploys BigHand
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust has been able to deliver same day referral letters as a result of implementing a digital dictation workflow system from BigHand. The technology allows the trust’s 300 users to record and instantly submit dictations to the workflow system, so secretaries can immediately begin to transcribe them. Secretaries are able […]
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East Kent cuts turn around times with SRC
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has been able to reduce cancer diagnosis times by deploying digital dictation with speech recognition from SRC. The new technology is allowing pathologists to dictate results in real-time. As a result, histology reporting turnaround times have been cut from a week to often the same day. Paul Williams, […]
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Birmingham rolls out WinScribe
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is to become SRC’s second biggest customer by deploying its WinScribe digital dictation system to more than 700 users. The system will be rolled out to 200 users over the next few weeks, and to a further 550 staff by the end of May. Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS […]
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EHI’s industry round-up 19.02.09
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers system deployments, new products, and other developments at leading healthcare IT suppliers. Wirral goes wireless with Aruba Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has deployed a secure wireless network from Aruba Networks at Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge Hospitals. Peter Marsh, technical director of the Wirral Health Informatics […]
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