Despite taking place during a global pandemic, this mass roll out has been a major success and adoption rate is currently over 85%, with speech recognition being used by around 2,500 users. This positive experience led to the Hospital rolling out Dragon Medical and Epic for all clinicians across its 22 hospitals and 24 member municipals simultaneously in 2020. Miika revealed they were particularly impressed with the way that Dragon Medical navigated Finnish – a language which is notoriously difficult to transcribe. Miika Pitkänen, Application Analyst and Karri Järvelin, System Designer, explained this was why HUS decided to upgrade their speech software to AI-powered, Dragon Medical and to coincide with their rollout of Epic.

Speech recognition was well received by end-users at HUS but lacked some accuracy, particularly for Finnish compound words. HUS Helsinki University Hospital in Finland first rolled out speech recognition in several of its sites in 2018. Although both had different experiences in terms of roll out, there was one common theme once the technology was in place: the extremely high level of accuracy. Unparalleled accuracy across 22 hospitals in Finlandĭuring the webinar we heard from two healthcare organisations which have implemented Dragon Medical in Epic and are witnessing some of the benefits mentioned above first-hand. Of course, this has proved particularly useful during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Users can access their single voice profile from different devices and locations, even when logging on from home. These benefits are something that clinicians can experience no matter where they are based, thanks to Dragon Medical One being a secure, cloud-based solution. For example, you can add a clinical note template using just your voice. He referenced that Dragon Medical One is “about more than just dictation.” It also enables clinicians to voice activate some of the usual processes they would use inside the Epic system. Throughout his demonstration, Dr Zimmerman highlighted how the use of speech recognition in healthcare produces clinical documentation is enabling clinicians to make significant time savings, without compromising on accuracy.

A user of Epic since 2006, he was able to draw on his wealth of experience to highlight how the seamless integration of Dragon Medical One is relieving some of the administrative burden placed on clinicians. If you missed it, here is what was discussed.ĭr Brian Zimmerman – Nuance CMIO and a physician working at an Epic hospital in Ohio – opened up proceedings by giving audience members a live demonstration of Epic and how speech can be used to support various aspects of the documentation process. Nuance recently hosted a webinar, which looked at the benefits of speech-enabling the Epic EPR with Dragon Medical One.

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