Archive | November, 2012

Medical Dictations and their importance

21 Nov

In contemporary world with so many illnesses, doctors provide treatment to a large number of patients. India has a huge population and is still developing. The medical facilities here are still not all that great. With all these problems, there are many medical cases that are bound to crop up.

Every medical treatment process starts with a medical dictation when the doctor assesses the patient and records the details. However, this dictation has changed slightly as doctors now record patient’s details into the digital dictation software. The software is the one that records whatever the doctor dictatesand stores them as audio files.Every recording of the doctor is stored in a methodical manner. It is post this that the files are sent easily to transcription companies for transcribing of those files into text. Medical dictations and transcripts are very important and their growth is immense in themedical field today.

Doctors and hospitals always want to keep a documentation of their patients so that there are no problems during the medical process and they can treat them well. Earlier the dictations used to record the doctor’s speech in devices called Dictaphones. However, in the contemporary field of medicine, Dictaphones have been replaced by the digital dictation software. These softwares have an inbuilt audio recorder. Everything is digital. These records are transcribed and created into documents. These very documents often help doctors to assess the patient’s condition in future too. These medical dictations thus help the doctor assess the progress of a patient with ease.

The digital dictation software audio files (once given by the doctor) are sent to medical transcriptionists. These transcriptionists usually listen to the medical dictations stored in the audio files and then prepare transcriptions. Hospitals and health care centres are making the best use of technology by using such modern software. There are many advantages of it.

This Digital dictation software can easily be connected to your computer and the audio files of the doctor can be easily stored or even sent across the Internet. Though this has led to the loss of jobs of human dictation takers who earlier used to note down whatever the doctor used to say. There used to be a lot of mistakes which in turn affected the patient’s treatment procedure. All that won’t be a problem anymore. The digital dictation software does things in a more efficient manner. There is absolutely no scope for error. The inbuilt audio recorder in the software stores the files in the efficient file management system. Some Dictation Softwares even come with the benefit of converting these audio files into text files. This can be stored very efficiently and thus can be easily accessible from time to time instead of searching for files manually. There is quality assurance check. In contemporary world, many healthcare professionals are enjoying the benefits of the software. As doctors work hard to save lives, Medical dictations become a very important part of their work. Saving lives is such a noble cause after all!

Android Medical Apps and Audio Transcription

15 Nov

With people finding reasons to develop touch screen technology and a global wireless network, our lives are dictated by science simplifying living in such a manner that leaves us with more time for ourselves. Simple innovation through technology has been the root of many an entrepreneurial success and there is real benefit to a host of professionals. The healthcare industry for instance is one of the biggest beneficiaries of technology, with automated systems saving time and money to leave them to dispense better care to the patients. This is a major incumbent simply because necessity is the beginning to any innovation and with the current pressures on healthcare institutions there is an overburdening that has plagued all professionals in carrying out their life saving practices in the most efficient manner.

Audio transcription as a process is one of the affiliated merits that have come in the form of maintaining and updating records of patients that is constantly innovated upon to develop a faultless process that maintains perfect accuracy. Here the doctor records diagnosis into a recorder that may or may not double as transcription software. If it doesn’t  then the file is compressed and sent to a transcription company elsewhere which decodes the speech into text. This forms the report and the doctors and patients benefit from this in terms of saving time to attend to other patients. In addition to the process of transcription there is the wizardry involved in android medical apps that are quickly catching up with most professionals as a godsend.

They are very simply applications that help medical professionals in several ways. They even help patients in watching their diets or medications with alerts that facilitate a better recuperation with personalized interfaces. When there is an emergency and as a healthcare professional there is the weight of a thousand medical journals to sift through, some of the medical applications assist through their extensive repository of medical literature that is automatically accessible to doctors via their phone. It is only becoming that more professionals are endorsing such technologies in dispensing off their duties as practitioners as it helps reducing response time and come with interactive solutions or suggestions that aid healthcare practitioners in performing better.

Audio transcription and Android medical apps are heralds into a newer and flexible habitat that can easily help ease out the bottlenecks associated with the mounting pressures that have plagued the healthcare industry across the world. The new automation and streamlined technology helps vent out the patient pressures that can block revenue flows and also aid and abet in raising the delivery and quality of care in a shorter span which benefits these institutions reeling under insurance and other liabilities that mostly confound the growth of other ancillary developments. With the medical landscape reasonably platitude out through these advances, there is more scope for developing and researching into other health concerns that can assist in finding newer medicine and treatments to the diseases borne of urban lifestyles and combating them better.