Philips speech recognition now Citrix Ready
Royal Philips Electronics have announced that their speech recognition system SpeechMagic has successfully received ‘Citrix Ready’ status, which will allow thousands of clinicians to remotely access speech recognition from any location. The SpeechMagic system is already used by thousands of clinicians globally and Philips say that thanks to the Citrix technology it will now be […]
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Homerton switches to speech recognition in radiology
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has deployed a new Dragon Naturally Speaking speech recognition system into its radiology department. The North-east London trust had been operating a Cerner EPR RADnet digital dictation system for sometime but decided to improve its reporting with speech recognition. The Naturally Speaking system sits on top of the original […]
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BT to create London PACS archive by September
Having deployed Picture Archiving and Communications Systems to all 23 trusts in London by the end of last month, BT is now beginning work on a medical imaging archive which will be able to store and access images from across the cluster into one central image repository. The local service provider to the London cluster has […]
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Mayday sees PACS benefits
Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust was one of the first sites in London to get BT’s Philips PACS system in London. EHI’s Joe Fernandez visited the trust to find out the difference it’s made to patient care.
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iSoft completes eight RIS installations in London
iSoft’s RadCentre radiology information system has been installed successfully into eight London trusts as part of a £3.9m deal with BT under the National Programme for IT, the company announced yesterday. RadCentre is iSoft’s radiology information system (RIS) designed to deliver radiology support across a multi-user computer network, enabling personal computers to be linked to […]
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Chesterfield Foundation Trust gets SRC digital dictation
SRC has won a European public procurement to provide a trust-wide digital dictation and workflow management solution to Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The trust, which serves the North Derbyshire area, is installing the WinScribe digital dictation solution, for use by clinical and management staff to improve medical record keeping and document production. SRC […]
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Northumbria switches to speech recognition
A trust-wide implementation of advanced digital dictation and speech recognition software is planned for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust. The aim will be to reduce turnaround time and transcription blockages in the trust’s one million items of patient correspondence every year. Piloting of the new system, G2 Speech’s SpeechReport with Philips’ SpeechMagic, will start in May and the […]
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Full Clinician Involvement Key to Success – Reader Comment
In response to the recent debate in E-Health Insider about whether PDAs or tablet PCs offer the best device to provide to front line clinicians, Sue Wilson head of IM&T (acute services) at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, stresses that it is not the choice of device but involvement of clinicians that counts: I agree […]
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