iChart Managed Services customers can outsource their transcription rely on Dictaphone’s Speech-Certified Transcription Network. This network uses Dictaphone’s EXSpeech® system or our other dictation products—at rates lower than those charged for traditional transcription.

You can outsource transcription to our Focus Infomatics subsidiary, ranked #1 in the Outsourced Transcription category by KLAS. By combining the efficiency of iChart with the around-the-clock productivity of Focus Infomatics, HIM departments can reduce transcription costs by up to 50%.

Leading EMR and Health Care Information Technology vendors now directly support the use of speech recognition solutions such as Dragon NaturallySpeaking to control their products:

• Allscripts offers an open, physician-friendly speech recognition strategy. Allscripts EMR products for ED, small physician practice EMR and TouchWorks have been released with a standard, “plug and play” interface with Dragon. Physicians who use Allscripts EMR products purchase a commercial Dragon Naturally Speaking license and install it on their local computer. Allscripts software automatically identifies Dragon software and clinicians can use speech recognition to run the Allscripts EMR system with no programming necessary.
• Epic Systems offers a library of voice macros for Dragon NaturallySpeaking so any Epic Hyperspace user can create progress notes, order-entry comments, and any other text related to patient care. Voice-activated commands enable users to navigate within Hyperspace, dramatically reducing the number of mouseclicks needed to complete a workflow process. Using DNS, a Hyperspace user can achieve a seamless process of documentation and navigation using voice to improve efficiency.
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• Practice Partners, now a division of McKesson Provider Technologies, is a Dragon Naturally Speaking authorized reseller. Clinicians use voice commands for many tasks when editing a progress note. For example, voice commands such as “Insert Template”, “Insert Problem”, “Insert Quicktext”, and “Insert Procedure Code” can make entering notes even more efficient.
• ChartLogic, a leading specialty vendor providing solutions to orthopaedic surgery and ophthalmology practices, has been one of the longest-standing supporters of speech. ChartLogic found the impact of speech of productivity, reimbursement and cost so compelling that they have redesigned their most recent product with Dragon NaturallySpeaking in mind.

Other EMR vendors who use Dragon NaturallySpeaking include Siemens, Cerner, and Eclipsys.

Through its PACS/RIS Extension Partner program (PREPP), Dictaphone has integrated PowerScribe with nearly 50 Radiology Information System (RIS) and Picture Archival and Communications System (PACS) vendors, including leading vendors such as AGFA, AMICAS, Inc., Asprya, BRIT, Cerner, DeJarnette Research Systems, Inc., DR Systems, Dynamic Imaging Inc., Eastman Kodak Company, Emageon, Sage/Emdeon/WebMD, Empiric Systems, eRad, FUJI FILM Medical Systems USA, GE Healthcare, Hologic, IBM Healthcare, Intelerad Medical Systems Inc., Konica Minolta Medical Imaging USA, Mammography Reporting Systems, Inc., Mantis Technology LLC, McKesson Information Solutions, MedDatatech, Medical Data Technologies, Medicine Spoon, MedInformatix, MedOrder Inc., MedWeb, Merge/eMed Technologies Corp., NeuroStar, Novarad, OpenMed, PenRad Technologies Inc., Philips/Stentor, Ramsoft, ScImage, Sectra Imtec, AB, Siemens Medical Solutions, SmartPCAS, Sonultra, Thin Air Data Corp., UniPACS, ViTAL Images and Ximis.