Consumers prefer the ‘personal touch’ for online health
Research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council has found that people searching for health advice online prefer websites with the ‘human touch’ to websites with high quality medical information. Researchers from Northumbria and Sheffield universities observed the strategies of people interested in finding health information and found that consumers went through an ‘initial […]
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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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