One way to decrease the administrative burden on the health care teams is with Speech to Text technology, where health care workers can dictate the consultation, and every word is being automatically transcribed into the EHR. And ultimately combining this with Covid19 increased workloads, is resulting in burnout symptoms with half of the health care workers today. This in combination with patient care that is getting more complex, due to the fact that patients live longer with chronically diseases. Which leads into a dramatic increase of the administrative burden. Structuring data is mostly done via the EHR, where health care teams enter every symptom, diagnose, medication, … manually in the right format with the right codification in the system.

Going digital means structuring your data so it can be used for better insights, both for clinical and secondary use, that ultimately will improve healthcare outcomes. To put a number on that, 80 percent of healthcare documentation is unstructured, and therefore this data goes largely unutilized. With unstructured data, you don’t get insights from your data or can make the needed correlations through the patient journey. We see that many healthcare organizations struggle with the high amount of unstructured data in their eco-system. Many healthcare organizations have shifted from paper to digital, but going digital alone does not mean, lesser administrative work, better processes or improved healthcare outcomes.

Medical speech to text software