Crescendo in the Press
Media Coverage
Health Imaging & IT - April 2008
Taking Speech to the Next Level
In this article, healthcare IT executives and vendors unveil their respective visions and roadmaps for speech recognition. Dr. Stephen Rosenthal, M.D. from the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, QC insists on the importance of interfaces between speech recognition and third-party systems and explains how Crescendo Speech Processing powered by SpeechMagic delivers the foundation for evidence-based medicine through searchable, standardized clinical data.
Medical Times Middle East - March 2008
Look who's talking
Journalist Vernon Baxter questions Bill Gates' 1997 prediction ("in this 10-year time frame...we will have perfected speech recognition and speech output") in the light of present achievements. Baxter quotes top vendor executives along the way, including Costa Mandilaras, president, Crescendo Systems Corporation.
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Health Imaging News - March 2008
Crescendo's president highlights mobile dictation software
Crescendo Systems highlighted its DigiScribe-XL Digital Dictation Software during the 2008 HIMSS Conference in Orlando, Fla.
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Health Imaging News - October 2007
Voice Recognition Proving Its Power
Journalist Beth Walsh interviews a number of key North American healthcare executives about their experience deploying speech recognition technology. Dr. Rosenthal from the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, QC, explains how the combined use of wireless and speech recognition technologies accelerates and secures the delivery of medical reports in the ER while providing precious tips for a successful SR implementation.
Health Imaging News - April 2007
The Latest Word on Voice Recognition - Implementation
Paula Crosbie, RHIA, director of health information management at Goodall Hospital shares her experience implementing hospital-wide speech recognition...
Top 25 Healthcare Innovators
Another Crescendo customer in the spotlight as Stephen E. Rosenthal, MD, Associate Director of the Emergency Department at the Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, Quebec, is named Healthcare Innovator of the Year and recognized for his role in enabling emergency physicians to access real-time patient data from any point in the ED using speech recognition.
Health Imaging News - October 2006
Frank Talk on Speech Recognition
In the October 2006 issue of Health Imaging & IT, Michelle Roesler, Director of Radiology at the Buffalo Medical Group, shares with readers the benefits of the integration between Crescendo Speech Processing powered by SpeechMagic and their PACS system.
Canadian Healthcare Technology - August 24, 2006
Hôpital Montfort selects Crescendo for dictation
Hôpital Montfort, based in Ottawa, has selected Laval, Que.-based Crescendo to supply a hospital-wide document creation platform, including digital dictation, bilingual speech recognition, transcription, distribution and authentication. With 206 beds (289 expected in 2008), the hospital boasts 100 physicians on its active medical staff and 12 medical transcriptionists. The new integrated solution is expected to streamline the documentation workflow and accelerate the delivery of medical reports to the point-of-care.
Advance for Health Information Professionals - July 31, 2006
Medical Editors: Transcriptionists' Newest Role
In the cover story of the July 31 issue of Advance for Health Information Professionals, Lynne Newberry from Buffalo Medical Group shares her experience as a medical editor using Crescendo Speech Processing.
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Institute of Healthcare Management - January 2006
"Can digital dictation and speech recognition help to ease the strain caused by a shortage of doctors in the UK?
The British Medical Association has proposed a number of measures to deal with the short supply of medical staff, which include the improvement of working conditions for doctors in order to avoid early retirement and time-out taken as a result of overwork and stress.
In this feature aticle, John Bendall, Manager of Technical Services for Crescendo Systems Ltd., discusses the importance of workflow automation both to free doctors from non-medical tasks and to curb the current shortage of medical staff in the United Kingdom.
ILTA Publication - October 2005
"Understanding digital dictation and speech recognition
In this ILTA white paper dedicated to the "Technology that Supports the Practice of Law", Bob Yacovitch, Ph.D., provides detailed advice to law firms willing to invest in digital dictation and/or speech recognition technology. From workflow automation to speech recognition, all your questions answered in one single paper.
Legal Technology Insider - May 2005
"Two more DDS wins for Crescendo
"Crescendo now seen as the only digital dictation systems supplier offering any serious competition to the three established market leaders BigHand, Nflow and WinScribe, has secured two more orders for its DigiScribe software. The biggest win was at top 100 firm Hewitsons, which is now rolling out DigiScribe at is Cambridge, Northampton and Saffron Walden offices, where fee earners are using a mixture of desktop and mobile dictation devices. The firm's IT manager Tolan Collins said one of the reasons for selecting Crescendo was they were "the only vendor offering IP-based workflow management, using voice streaming to transfer voice files to the secretary in realtime, while ensuring files were not duplicated or stored on local computers."
"Crescendo's second win was at Powell Spencer & Partners, one of the largest criminal law practices in London where, because of the nature of legal aid work, a key priority was to maintain the firm's 3:1 fee earner to secretary staff ratio. Practice manager Diana Du Bruyn said since introducing DigiScribe the firm has even been able to "direct existing secretarial staff to more paralegal, billable activities."
Law Gazette - Feb 24, 2005
"Crescendo has launched its back-end speech recognition solution, Crescendo Speech Processing, in the UK legal market. Powered by SpeechMagic from Philips, the system includes a specialised recognition vocabulary for general law and property law. This allows an optimal recognition rate and helps firms increase the productivity of secretarial staff."
Legal IT Report - Feb 10, 2005
"Crescendo offers speech system
"Crescendo Systems is launching a server-based speech recognition system. The move is the first of its kind in recent years, during which time the legal sector's customary suppliers - BigHand and SRC - have focused more heavily on selling digital dictation systems to law firms.
"Crescendo Speech Processing, which goes on sale in April, is powered at the front end by SpeechMagic, from Philips Speech Recognition Systems. The system can be used as a mobile working tool and is designed to integrate closely with various legal case management systems. It boasts a specialised recognition vocabulary for general law and property law, which should increase its appeal to conveyancing practices."
Health Management Technology, February 2005
"Integratable Voice Recognition"
"Powered by SpeechMagic from Philips Speech Recognition Systems, Crescendo Speech Processing includes specialized word vocabularies for medical specialties such as radiology and pathology. Producing recognized text out of off-line voice files, it seamlessly integrates within a hospital's existing IT infrastructure, including dictation and transcription systems, PACS and radiology information systems from any vendor, so critical data can always be accessed from a single interface. Features include adaptation to a user's unique voice characteristics, so its recognition rate improves through repeated use, and accessibility via any connected workstation, whether on-site or remote. Once a transcriptionist completely reviews a report, the application automatically updates, spell checks, counts, uploads and distributes the final document."
Health Imaging & IT - Dec 14, 2004
Crescendo launched Crescendo Speech Processing powered by SpeechMagic and shared plans for a pathology and general medicine solution
"Crescendo Speech Processing solution for radiologists is powered by SpeechMagic from Philips Medical Systems and includes a professional recognition vocabulary for radiological terminology. The system guarantees an optimal recognition rate from the very beginning while retaining authors' working habits. Crescendo Speech Processing was designed to integrate within a hospital's existing IT infrastructure, including dictation and transcription systems, RIS and PACS from any vendor. As a result, critical data can always be accessed from one single interface.
"The company also is developing Crescendo Speech Processing for pathology and general medicine. Both versions are currently being beta tested in two hospitals in Canada and the United States."
- Elizabeth Mandilaras
Senior Marketing Representative
liza@crescendo.com
