Dear Healthcare IT Insider,
Speech recognition technology takes center stage in this edition of the Healthcare IT Insider.
Staff writer Erik Ridley is the headliner with his article on the adoption of speech recognition and structured reporting, and how, from one physician's perspective, the technologies have produced mixed results in radiology departments.
Dr. David Weiss of Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA, offered his insight during a presentation at the Digital Healthcare Information Management Systems (DHIMS) 2008 meeting in San Antonio.
At Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, structured reports and speech recognition technology play an important role in radiologists' productivity. With the increasing importance of subspecialization in radiology, structured reports are becoming a more useful tool to standardize information received by referring physicians.
Dr. Giles Boland, medical director of teleradiology and vice chairman of radiology, discusses the MGH experience in this interview.
Also in this edition, read how New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center in New York City have successfully established and validated the remote, real-time interpretation of digital mammography images. Backlog time of six months to schedule a case has been reduced to two days.
Dr. Alan Melton, an assistant clinical professor of radiology at New York-Presbyterian, provided an update on the now three-year-old telemammography project during his presentation at the annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS).
Also in the Healthcare IT Digital Community, read about former Kodak Health Imaging Group President Dan Kerpelman's new venture, and Atlanta-based USTeleradiology's recent acquisition to expand its territory.
Next week we head to Seattle to cover the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM). Stay on top of breaking news and the latest developments in healthcare IT with daily reports from the conference on AuntMinnie.com.
