Clinical documentation solutions that work for allied health professionals
Improving clinical workflows for allied health professionals with Dragon Medical Solutions. Digitising clinical documentation and utilising speech-to-text capabilities to streamline the documentation process, freeing up more time for allied health professionals to spend with patients.
Dragon Medical solutions speech-to-text capabilities enable allied health professionals (AHPs) to digitalise their notes easily, in line with the ‘digital’ work stream of the AHPs into Action framework.
Nuance’s speech-to-text solutions allow allied health workers to dictate notes quickly and accurately. As well as improving medical records, this makes more time with patients possible.
Cloud-based access and customised profiles mean that they can simply speak directly into patient health records and other documents wherever they are.
IT solutions that help allied healthcare professionals
The NHS is increasingly looking to AHPs as an untapped resource for improving health and wellbeing. Dragon’s speech‑to‑text functionality enables allied health professionals to dictate notes three times faster than with a keyboard.
Increased workloads and long working days can result in typing errors. By dictating straight into the patient record, errors can be avoided and patient care improved.
By removing the need to type‑up letters and other healthcare administration processes, patient letter turnaround time can be reduced from weeks to days(pdf). This also frees up AHPs to spend more time with patients.
A study(pdf) of Trusts found that 27% of patient records had missing or insufficient detail. Dragon Medical allows allied healthcare professionals to quickly record every detail either at the appointment or right after.
Dragon Medical products support more than 60 medical speciality vocabularies, covering the full scope of allied health.
An intuitive voice‑based user interface allows you to record notes, navigate and search for information in a user‑friendly way.
Research shows 170,000 AHPs in the UK deliver over 4 Million patient interactions per week
DynamicHealth found that by using Dragon Medical, physiotherapists were able to reduce the time taken to get letters to GPs and patients from several weeks to just 2‑5 days. AHPs were able to eliminate letter backlogs by ditching the old analogue dictation system.
Nuance solutions for allied health professionals
Ideal for small user groups of AHPs, Dragon Medical Practice Edition provides efficient speech-to-text functionality over a local network.
Large organisations spread between multiple locations can benefit from Dragon Medical One, Nuance’s cloud-based speech-to-text solution. As no investment in hardware investment is required, this is a highly scalable solution.
For allied health professionals who are mobile a lot of the time, PowerMic makes it possible to complete clinical documentation using only their smartphone. Clinicians simply download the app and then automatically pair it with any local PC.
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