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eScription Announces Agreement with Eclipsys for eScription's
Dictation and Medical Transcription Products and Services
April 5, 2001 (Boston, MA) - eScription Corporation, a leader
in dictation and transcription management and automatic speech recognition,
today announced that Eclipsys Corporation is incorporating eScription's
products into Eclipsys' new Sunrise™ 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. Health
care 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 health care organizations.
"Transcriptionists who use our products are able to produce high-quality
reports twice as fast as previously was possible," said Ben Chigier,
co-founder 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 health care organizations."
Over 250,000 medical transcriptionists in the United States transcribe
health care reports, representing an estimated $6 billion spent
per year. The health care 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, co-founder
of eScription. "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."
eScription's family of products consists of IntelliScript, the
dictation server; EditScript™, the transcription and document-distribution
product; and AutoScript, the automatic speech recognizer used to
produce a draft dictation. Each of these components is tightly integrated
over secure Internet connections. This integration provides increased
efficiencies and a single management tool from a single vendor to
manage all of the major components needed for medical transcription.
Transcriptionists can efficiently use the power of a specialized
Microsoft Word editor to transcribe reports from anywhere on the
Internet with only a dial-up modem.
The significant benefits in transcription productivity are made
possible by eScription's patent-pending processes and technology.
eScription technology utilizes 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 AutoScript to clarify
what it thinks a physician said based on a larger context and to
apply physician- and organization-specific formatting and templates.
"A near-final draft of the dictations is created for medical transcriptionists
to efficiently review, edit and send on to the clinician for verification,
enabling dictated reports to be turned around much more quickly
and cost-effectively," said Michael B. Kaufman, Eclipsys Senior
Vice President of Business Development. Transcriptionists have discovered
that they prefer to edit drafts produced by AutoScript than to type
because the work is physically less strenuous.
Powered by eScription, Eclipsys' Sunrise Knowledge-Based Transcription
provides information that can be used to populate patient records
created with any of Eclipsys' Sunrise solutions, including Clinical
Manager (with its industry-leading Knowledge-Based Orders), Record
Manager and others. Eclipsys is making the product available on
an application service provider (ASP) basis through the company's
Technology Solutions Center. "Sunrise Knowledge-Based Transcription
is easily and quickly implemented to provide rapid improvement in
providing cost-effective medical transcription. This application
represents a critically important breakthrough technology," Kaufman
stated.
About eScription
eScription Inc., a privately held corporation, is a leading provider
of dictation and transcription management and automatic speech recognition
for healthcare. 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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