SRC WinScribe’s flexible all-in-one Digital Dictation solution leads Dudley Hospitals to extend pilot to full roll out
London, 19 November 2007 - SRC, the leading provider for healthcare digital dictation and speech recognition solutions, today announced it is rolling out the WinScribe Digital Dictation system to over 350 users at the Dudley Group of Hospitals (DGoH) NHS Trust before the end of 2007.
Describing the business case for rolling out Winscribe across the Trust, Isobel Rees, DGoHs’ Operational Project Manager said: “The SRC pilot has shown that the new dictation system provides the flexibility to monitor workloads and where appropriate, administrators can divert work to other areas to maximize staff efficiencies. The solution also gives us the opportunity to respond to GPs in a more timely manner by improving efficiencies.”
The solution will enable Dudley to reduce document turnaround times from days to hours. Talking about the increased flexibility Isobel said: “Previously Consultants physically handed tapes to secretaries for transcription. This meant urgent dictations could be delayed in the system. With the new solution, dictation is automatically routed according to priority as soon as Consultants dock their dictation devices”.
SRC introduced the concept and benefits of digital dictation to the Trust and are jointly responsible, with the Trust, for the deployment of services which underpin the overall project. “The SRC project management, training and support services certainly helped minimise disruption during the pilot phase, with the system being well received by Consultants, secretaries and administrators.”
The integration, by SRC, of the Winscribe system with the Trust’s OASIS PAS system will deliver further document creation efficiencies. Patient’s details will be automatically inserted into customised Microsoft Word templates simply by Consultants scanning patient IDs using barcode readers on their Phillips portable dictation devices. The PAS integration work will not only speed up work for Consultants and secretaries but also remove potentially error prone manual processes.
Chris Hart, CEO of SRC commented: “We are delighted to be able to offer a complete solution to the Dudley Group of Hospitals which will provide both increased flexibility and major efficiency gains. The SRC WinScribe digital dictation solution provides the Trust with a platform to which additional capabilities can be seamlessly added. Already integrated speech recognition is being trialled in the pathology department, and this has the potential to provide further efficiencies in the document creation process. We look forward to working closely with the Dudley Group of Hospitals on this key project.”
In addition to the Dudley Group of Hospitals, the SRC WinScribe solution has been rolled out by numerous other NHS Trusts, including Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals, Chesterfield Royal Hospital, East Sussex Hospitals, Poole Hospital, Homerton University Hospital, The Hammersmith Hospitals and Royal West Sussex Hospitals.
