Crescendo launches speech recognition solution for Radiologists in North America
LAVAL, Quebec - November 16, 2004 - Crescendo today announced the release of its Crescendo Speech Processing solution for Radiology. The solution, powered by SpeechMagicTM from Philips Speech Recognition Systems, includes a professional recognition vocabulary for radiological terminology.
Productivity booster
"Radiology is typically the most dictation-intensive department in a hospital", explains Costa Mandilaras, President, Crescendo Systems Corporation. Implemented as a background layer, Crescendo Speech Processing guarantees an optimal recognition rate from the very beginning while retaining Authors' working habits. "Radiologists can keep dictating the way they are used to, using their preferred input device, while the SpeechMagic voice recognition system automatically adapts to their specific dictation characteristics and is constantly optimized through repeated use".
Seamless integration
In line with the Crescendo open platform approach, Crescendo Speech Processing was designed to seamlessly integrate within a hospital's existing IT infrastructure, including dictation and transcription systems, Radiology Information Systems (RIS) and Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) from any vendor. As a result, critical data can always be accessed from one single interface.
"Integrating Crescendo Speech Processing with medical systems is critical to our strategy to help hospitals build a truly integrated work environment where all systems are interconnected and human resources are utilized to their full potential", comments Mr. Mandilaras.
Next step
"We are in the process of extending Crescendo Speech Processing to two other medical specialties that typically experience intensive dictation workflows: Pathology and General Medicine. Both versions are currently being Beta tested in several Canadian and American hospitals, and we look forward to launching the solution across both countries" concludes Mr. Mandilaras.
Radiologists are invited to try Crescendo Speech Processing powered by SpeechMagicTM live at booth 6454 (North Building) during the RSNA conference taking place from November 28 to December 3, 2004 in McCormick Place, Chicago, IL.