Wednesday, July 26, 2006
eScription Announces Agreement With Eclipsys for eScription's Dictation & Medical Transcription Products and Services
eScription Corporation, a leader in dictation and transcription management and automatic speech recognition, today announced that Eclipsys Corporation is incorporating eScription's Script(TM) product line into Eclipsys' new Sunrise(TM) Knowledge-Based Transcription product.
eScription provides a suite of applications that reduce costs, decrease turnaround time and improve medical transcription workflow. The applications employ a powerful set of technologies which leverage the Internet and state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition to significantly increase medical transcriptionist productivity. Healthcare providers need not change their workflow of dictating into the telephone handset, nor do they explicitly train the automatic speech recognizer. Using these applications, eScription customers have realized a doubling of productivity.
eScription's products are installed in major healthcare organizations. "Transcriptionists who use our products are able to produce high-quality reports twice as fast as previously was possible," said Ben Chigier, President of eScription. "Our products and services bridge the traditional barrier between dictation and transcription management. The addition of automatic speech recognition automates a significant portion of the work and serves to alleviate some of the significant cost pressures experienced by healthcare."
Over 250,000 medical transcriptionists in the United States transcribe healthcare reports, representing an estimated $6 billion spent per year. The healthcare industry has been very interested in employing speech recognition, but has been slow to adopt it due to concerns over its accuracy and its impact on workflow. "No speech-recognition system, even ours, can be 100% accurate," noted Paul Egerman, eScription chairman & CEO. "To be successful, many concepts in addition to speech recognition must be utilized. Our natural language processor interprets and formats what the physician meant to say in addition to what was actually said."
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