John A Pezzullo, Glenn A Tung, Jeffrey M Rogg, Lawrence M Davis, Jeffrey M Brody, William W Mayo-Smith
Continuous voice recognition dictation systems for radiology reporting provide a viable alternative to conventional transcription services with the promise of shorter report turnaround times and increased cost savings. While these benefits may be realized in academic institutions, it is unclear how voice recognition dictation impacts the private practice radiologist who is now faced with the additional task of transcription. In this article, we compare conventional transcription services with a commercially available voice recognition system with the following results: 1) Reports dictated with voice recognition took 50% longer to dictate despite being 24% shorter than those conventionally transcribed, 2) There were 5...
December 2008: Journal of Digital Imaging: the Official Journal of the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology