Talking about N3, has the National Programme for IT encouraged the adoption of speech recognition?
Not really, because the focus was on electronic patient records and PACS. The initiative that will impact speech recognition adoption is QIPP. Amongst many other excellent guidelines, QIPP advises healthcare organisations to apply the knowledge of national and international best practice to support the NHS drive for quality, innovation, productivity and prevention. Nuance and our customers have truly global experience in demonstrating the cost-saving and productivityincreasing power of speech recognition. The university hospital of Oslo in Norway, for example, saves more than GBP 700,000 annually. I also believe our eScription solution will be an outstanding example of how to leverage mature and proven US transcription Best Practice and convert it into faster clinical reporting and huge efficiency savings for the NHS. With QIPP, we will even see the NHS push the private sector to take up speech recognition faster. How does eScription fit into Nuances product portfolio for healthcare, w
