This is the wave of the future. Not only is it faster, and more convenient, but also cheaper. What else could you want?
"There's something quaint about the way Dr. Matthew Doppelt used to take electronic notes. The solo practitioner at South Eastern Dermatology Consultants P.A. in Knoxville, Tenn., used to speak into a digital recorder, upload the files, and send them to a transcription service. Then he'd cough up $1,600 a month for next-day service to get Word files of the reports.
Things changed last year when Doppelt got a wireless Toshiba M200 tablet PC running Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical voice-recognition software from Nuance Communications Inc., an app he bought for less than $1,000. Now his dictation is electronically transcribed immediately as text. Doppelt can store those reports in patients' electronic medical records, using software from eClinicalWorks to manage those records.
Doppelt isn't alone in making this change. Medical functions that were commonly outsourced are increasingly being automated. Not only that, but in medical practices, where wireless networks are becoming important tools for clinical applications such as writing electronic prescriptions, the ability to transcribe notes using wireless devices is becoming critical. Other providers of voice-recognition dictation products include Philips and IBM."
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