Radiology Information System Developed with Ready Speech Recognition

Utilizing a new radiology information system (RIS) with ready speech recognition, community hospitals, out-patient imaging centers and integrated delivery networks can now implement a digital radiology reporting workflow independent of their type of network architecture and client hardware. This is expected to significantly advance speech recognition-based radiology reporting and lead to more accurate and efficient information capturing in healthcare.

Nuance Communications, Inc. (Burlington, MA, USA) announced the successful integration of its SpeechMagic technology into GE Healthcare (Chalfont St. Giles, UK) Centricity RIS in a Citrix environment. Centricity powered by SpeechMagic is the first RIS to provide industrial grade speech recognition--including front and backend support--within the Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure.

"When making SpeechMagic Citrix Ready, we focused on high compression rates that ensure a minimum latency time between the recording of a dictation, its recognition on the central server, and the return of the recognized text to the user's screen,” said Marcel Wassink, vice president of SpeechMagic Solutions at Nuance. "SpeechMagic will give Citrix-based Centricity RIS users secure and fast access to full-scale healthcare speech recognition--even from their Citrix terminals at home.”

More than half of all radiologists in Western Europe are working with SpeechMagic--in some countries, such as Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, France, or Norway, even throughout entire regional networks.

"Healthcare providers connect and communicate via networks that stretch across locations, cities, and even entire regions. In this context, Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure centralizes software administration and allows for their efficient rollout. Centricity RIS with integrated speech recognition reporting module runs now under Citrix,” said Juergen Reyinger, vice president and general manager at GE Healthcare IT (information technology). "As speech recognition has established itself as the standard tool for radiology reporting, the integration of ‘Citrix Ready' SpeechMagic technology, together with our RIS, is a key component in delivering our users' requirements.”

First implementations of Centricity RIS with Speech Magic and Citrix are currently taking place in Ireland and Denmark. Centricity RIS 4.2 powered by SpeechMagic is available immediately in Europe, the Middle East, South America, and English-speaking countries in Asia.

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