BIRMINGHAM, UK – Nuance Communications, Inc., a provider of speech solutions, will start four project implementations for its Trust-wide, computer-aided medical transcription (CAMT) solution, eScription.

Delivered as a “pay as you go,” on-demand, Software as a Service (SaaS), NHS Trust officials said eScription, offers an N3-secure opportunity to improve patient safety and patient care by streamlining and automating the clinical documentation workflow. The eScription platform is expected to help NHS Trusts to increase medical secretaries’ productivity and improve document turnaround time.

“Having spent many years working in US hospital organisations I am keenly aware of how technologically demanding the US transcription industry is," said Zafar Chaudry, MD, and CIO of Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. Chaudry said that the speech recognition technology will bring certain benefits to the UK healthcare organizations.
 
The eScription is designed to convert a physician's digital dictation into formatted documents which can be edited and reviewed for accuracy. Trust officials are looking to leverage this technology based on the "it's faster to edit than to type" premise. By using this speech recognition tool, the Trusts are expecting a big increase in productivity.

eScription supports dictation into multiple digital devices while also leveraging a Trust’s existing telephony network. The four eScription projects are scheduled to go live in the spring of 2010.
 
“LWH and Alder Hey [Hospital] are very excited about trialling Nuance eScription," said Chaudry. "Its approach and uniquely intelligent speech recognition engine could represent a paradigm shift in the transcription process for NHS Trusts.”