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New technology wanted to improve radiology wait times Graney, Emma . Leader Post ; Regina, Sask. [Regina, Sask]03 Feb 2016: A.6.
ProQuest document link ABSTRACT The province's health authorities are looking to voice recognition technology to give patients faster radiology results. FULL TEXT The province's health authorities are looking to voice recognition technology to give patients faster radiology results. Emma Graney talked to 3sHealth spokesman Kendell Arndt about why regional health authorities are pursuing voice recognition, and what it means for patients. THE SCAN SITUATION Between getting your scan and the results being clipped to your file, it's a multi-faceted journey for radiology diagnostics that passes through at least two sets of hands: A radiologist examines your scan and dictates the results, then sends that dictation offto a medical transcriber, who writes up the results and sends it back to the radiologist to check. Only once it's doublechecked by the radiologist do results make their way to your chart. The process differs between health regions, too, so processing your MRI, X-Ray or ultrasound can take anywhere from 24 hours to a few days. Then there's the duplication. Say you happen to go to an emergency room and get an X-ray. If you're transferred before the transcription is complete, you might end up getting another scan because the results of the first X-ray weren't immediately available to the second health care provider. Delays are compounded by the fact Saskatchewan faces a shortage of qualified radiology transcriptionists, and many are retiring. Couple the lack of workers with what 3sHealth says is a "significant" increase in radiology scans thanks to "technological innovations in medical imaging," and you've got a situation that's only going to worsen. THE BIG IDEA Voice recognition technology would be used by radiologists throughout the province, allowing them to dictate results straight into the system. The results would be available in real time - cutting out the middle man, if you will. It would also standardize the process across health regions and free up valuable transcriptionists for other duties. Such technology is already recognized in the health sector as a boon for patient care, primarily for the quick turnaround of results and lessening the likelihood of inaccuracies. There's no firm cost yet for rolling out the technology, because the project has only just gone out to tender. Still, a ballpark estimation by 3sHealth pegs it in the "hundreds of thousands" of dollars, which would be more than recouped by the new system's savings. [email protected] twitter.com/LP_EmmaGraney Credit: Emma Graney; The Leader-Post DETAILS PDF GENERATED BY SEARCH.PROQUEST.COM Page 1 of 2 Copyright Ó 2017 ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved.
Terms and Conditions Contact ProQuest Subject: Voice recognition Identifier / keyword: health,authorities,looking,voice,recognition,technology Publication title: Leader Post; Regina, Sask. First page: A.6 Publication year: 2016 Publication date: Feb 3, 2016 Section: City &Region Publisher: Infomart, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. Place of publication: Regina, Sask. Country of publication: Canada Publication subject: General Interest Periodicals--Canada ISSN: 08392870 Source type: Newspapers Language of publication: English Document type: News ProQuest document ID: 1762279757 Document URL: https://search.proquest.com/docview/1762279757?accountid=32521 Copyright: (Copyright (cyf 3 R V W P H G L D 1 H W Z R U N , Q F $ O O U L J K W V U H V H U Y H G \f Last updated: 2016-02-04 Database: Public Health Database PDF GENERATED BY SEARCH.PROQUEST.COM Page 2 of 2
