Nuance announced that healthcare organizations which use Enterprise Turbo Speech have realizеd increases in medical transcriptionist (MT) productivity. Enterprise Turbo Speech is the speech recognition component of the Dictaphone Enterprise Speech System. While clinicians dictate, speech recognition produces draft documents. A new version of Enterprise Turbo Speech, 8.1, will be available from June 28 this year. It enables customers to deploy Enterprise Turbo Speech in IT environments, making the system compatible with popular healthcare enterprise IT systems.
Enterprise Turbo Speech customers process approximately 85 percent of the dictation volume using background speech recognition.

Baptist Healthcare System, a nonprofit healthcare system in Kentucky, deployed the Enterprise Turbo Speech in 2008.  Enterprise Turbo Speech was able to increase MT productivity by 65 percent at Baptist Hospital East and Baptist Hospital Northeast. “We’ve realized improved productivity gains of up to 65 percent and faster medical report turnaround times,” reports Brenda Beckham, director of health information management, Baptist Hospital East. “When we first deployed Enterprise Turbo Speech, our team of MTs hit the ground running, thanks to the intuitive speech editing interface. Today, our entire MT team prefers editing versus typing documents from scratch.”

Florida Hospital uses the System combined with the Cerner electronic medical record (EMR) system. The dictated reports are available in the EMR within about 0.6 hours. The Hospital has eliminated 10 percent of its transcription work and has saved approximately $450,000 in 12 months. “We’ve been using Enterprise Turbo Speech for one year across the eight sites of Florida Hospital. Without change to their previous workflow, more than 1,000 clinicians are dictating into the Enterprise Turbo Speech system, while behind the scenes, our medical transcriptionists are completing medical reports faster than they were one year ago, reducing turnaround time for H&Ps by 29 percent,” said Debbie Lewandowski, CMT director of medical transcription, Florida Hospital. “With Enterprise Turbo Speech we have been able to fully recover enough savings to cover our investment for the System itself in one year.”

Rockford Memorial Hospital in Rockford, IL deployed Enterprise Turbo Speech in 2008. The hospital has reduced transcription costs by more than 15 percent per line. Dennis P. L’Heureux, senior vice president for planning and CIO of Rockford Health System, further accentuated Rockford Health System’s success with background speech recognition from Nuance by saying, “I always thought that speech recognition would make us more efficient, but I never thought that it would allow us to compete with off-shoring.”

For additional information on Enterprise Turbo Speech,   please visit http://www.nuance.com/healthcare/products/enterprise_workstation.asp.