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Brigham and Women's Hospital Implements eScription
Products
October 4, 2001 (Boston, MA) - eScription, Inc. announced
today the signing of a major agreement with Brigham and Women's
Hospital (BWH) for eScription's products and services to improve
processes and reduce costs associated with medical transcription
at BWH. The world renowned hospital will become a showcase customer
for eScription's products, whereby others can visit BWH to experience
the full benefits of eScription's products.
BWH is one of several major health care organizations that
are benefiting
from eScription's products. "Physicians and office staff are often
unhappy with the cost and operations of their transcription services,"
said Dr. Robert Goldszer, Director of Specialty Services for BWH.
"Our dictation to transcription turnaround time was longer than
we wanted. In January 2001 we began using a new process from eScription."
eScription provides a suite of applications which reduce costs,
decrease turn-around-time, and improve the workflow associated with
medical transcription. 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. Health care providers need not change their workflow
of dictating into the telephone handset, nor do they explicitly
train the automatic speech recognizer.
BWH initially focused on several primary care clinics to use eScription's
products and services. "At BWH, we have contracted with two transcription
services to edit our notes and transmit the documents via eScription
software." said Kevin Coughlin, Director of Ambulatory Business
Office. "Further, we are planning a full roll out to other departments
within the hospital."
Traditionally, speech recognition technology for health
care dictation
has focused on highly repetitive areas such as Radiology. "One of
the more challenging areas for applying speech recognition technology
is primary care, due to the relatively high variability of what
can be dictated," said Ben Chigier, co-founder of eScription. "The
fact that we are successfully deploying speech recognition in primary
care to improve the transcription process is a testimony to our
vision, products and technology."
"We are constantly exploring ways to improve our overall process
and workflow. Using innovative software helps us meet that goal,"
said Sue Schade, Chief Information Officer for Brigham and Women's
Hospital.
The significant benefits in transcription productivity are made
possible by eScription's processes and technology. The processes
utilize batch processing of physician dictation using server technology
instead of the traditional client based technology. Previous systems
for automating medical transcription have attempted to immediately
recognize physicians' speech, while eScription's model does not
work under this constraint. Like human medical transcriptionists,
eScription's recognition process listens to the audio multiple times.
"This enables our software to clarify what it thinks a physician
said based on a larger context," said Paul Egerman, co-founder eScription
along with Ben Chigier. A near-final draft of the dictations is
created for medical transcriptionists to efficiently review, edit
and send on to the clinician for verification.
About Brigham and Women's Hospital
BWH is a 716-bed nonprofit teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical
School and a founding member of Partners HealthCare System, an integrated
health care delivery network. Internationally recognized as a leading
academic health care institution, BWH is committed to excellence
in patient care, medical research, and the training and education
of health care professionals. The hospital's preeminence in all
aspects of clinical care is coupled with its strength in medical
research. A leading recipient of research grants from the National
Institutes of Health, BWH conducts internationally acclaimed clinical,
basic and epidemiological studies.
www.brighamandwomens.org
About eScription
eScription Inc., a privately held corporation, is a leading provider
of dictation and transcription management and automatic speech recognition
for health care. eScription's products reduce costs,
decrease turn-around-time,
and improve the workflow associated with medical transcription by
employing a new suite of technologies, including the Internet and
automatic speech recognition. eScription's research and development
is partially funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health.
eScription was founded by two successful entrepreneurs, Paul Egerman
and Ben Chigier. Paul Egerman has over twenty years of experience
in health care as a principal of IDX Systems Corporation. He has
extensive experience with computerized medical records. Ben Chigier
was the CEO and Chairman of PureSpeech, a leading provider of advanced
speech recognition software in the telecommunications industry.
For further information, visit www.escription.com
or call 781-455-8900.
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