The clinical staff at the Norwegian hospitals of Sykehuset Telemark and Sykehuset Buskerud have a more effective daily life due to a new speech recognition solution delivered by Sykehuspartner in cooperation with TietoEnator and Max Manus AS. The new workflow is much simpler and faster, and gives substantial cost savings. The solution is the first in its field for clinical use in Norwegian hospitals. Knut Lindås, the person responsible for the project at Sykehuspartner, said the solution has already got a lot of attention. The radiology departments were the first department to start using these types of solutions. The doctor can dictate his report direct into the journal and immediately acknowledge the dictation as journal text. The fact that the solution is now in use in other clinics of the hospital is a large and important step forward. The solution leads to simpler and faster sharing of valuable and sometimes critical information in the patient's treatment. Administrative resources, previously occupied with time-consuming journal handling and work, can now be released for other prioritized tasks.
TietoEnator's partner, Max Manus AS, together with Philips, has developed the core of the speech recognition solution. The company has done extensive work in preparing a vocabulary containing 64,000 words and medical terms. The speech recognition is now integrated into TietoEnator's electronic patient record system (EPR). The health region South will implement the solution in all hospitals in the region.
Studies of similar projects in other countries show that speech recognition integrated with EPR give substantial time and cost savings as well as a higher quality of data entered into the journal. TietoEnator has been delivering similar solutions to the primary healthcare market in Finland since 2004, and also to several hospitals in Germany. The company has also published a voice control solution for the Finnish and Swedish dental care markets.
TietoEnator is one of the leading healthcare and welfare ICT solution providers in Europe and the leading supplier in the Nordic region. The company offers state-of-the-art ICT solutions and IT services for healthcare and welfare service providers. The aim is to support healthcare and welfare sectors in digitalizing their processes, promoting seamless service chains and various regional co-operation models as well as an excellent return on invested solutions. TietoEnator has over 30 years of experience in these industries, employing over 1,200 experts in Denmark, Finland, Germany, India, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.
For further information, please contact:
- Leif Arne Woldsund, Marketing manager, TietoEnator Healthcare & Welfare Norway, +47 21 70 60 00
- Knut Lindås, Project responsible, Sykehuspartner, +47 971 72 319
TietoEnator is among the leading architects in building a more efficient information society and one of the largest IT services providers in Europe. TietoEnator specializes in consulting, developing and hosting its customers' business operations in the digital economy. The Group's services are based on a combination of deep industry-specific expertise and the latest information technology. TietoEnator has over 15 000 experts in more than 25 countries. www.tietoenator.com
Sykehuspartner, owned by the Norwegian health region South, was established October 2003. The background for the company was the need for more effective operation of support functions at the region's hospitals. Reduction of administration costs and deployment of more resources for patient treatments are other effects. Sykehuspartner delivers solution and services to the region's hospitals within the areas of purchasing, HR, information and communication technology (ICT). Sykehuspartner's vision is to bring a simpler 'everyday' for hospital employees with the delivery and deployment of services and solutions, releasing resources and increasing focus on quality in the hospitals' core business and tasks.