Medical dictations a technique to save time and energy

Jul 11
07:41

2012

Sharad Gaikwad

Sharad Gaikwad

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With the ever changing development in science, the healthcare sector has incorporated technology not only as biomedical instruments like the MRI or CT scan but also evolved to utilise technology in its allied sector of medical transcription.

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Audio transcription is one such technical revelation that is adopted by medical transcription companies to convert the dictation of the doctor into textual documents. This is carried out by medical transcription companies that collaborate with hospitals locally and globally to provide patient records in an electronic format to doctors for future use. The advancement of this allied healthcare sector has managed to generate multitude job opportunities for unemployed but educated individuals especially in developing nations. For the proper use of this form of transcription the transcriptionist must be provided with a digitized form of the doctor’s notes. Natural speech analysis and voice synthesis is necessary to convert the narration into documented textual content.

The digitization of the patient’s details is only possible if the doctor stores his notes in an electronically enhanced device that can the capacity to maintain the clarity and precision of the recorded speech. Such a device is the digital voice recorder which analogous signals (doctor’s notes) are converted into a digitalized format having a certain pattern of waves. The frequencies of the waves must be measured appropriately,Medical dictations a technique to save time and energy Articles this process is called sampling rate. This device is can be used to stock ample amounts of patient history and details. The resistance to errors has made the accuracy rate of this device impeccable and satisfactory as per the doctor’s requirements.

To preserve paper and minimise wastage of space by stocking numerous files and handwritten documents, medical dictations to a Dictaphone or digital recorder can help record patient history faster. These dictations can be done in presence of an alternate staff member scribbling away the content narrated by the doctor or even in absence to a digitized device for storage. These dictations are later sent to transcription companies to create the documented records and keep them stacked up in the database for future reference.

The eruption of transcription was initially just to unburden the hospital from tedious and strenuous work but lately they have emerged as an individual and popular industry independently also. Audio transcription has helped to make storage of records simplified and synchronized. This has managed to create easy access into the patient detail. Also numerous software app have been devised to simplify the task of transcription on the whole. Dictaphones and digital voice recorders are used extensively by medical experts to record the patient information and then transfer them to transcription companies to make the conversion. Medical dictations can be done by the doctors even on the move by just talking into the digitized recorder provided in the mobile phone that has transcription software installed within its memory database. There are a plethora of such mobile apps that provide this feature. Prioritizing and arrangement of voice recording can be done successfully using this software. Transcription companies use this form of dictation to perform conversion of narrative speech into documented data.