What Is Cardiac Telemetry?

Telemetry is a technology that allows measurements to be made at a distance, via radio wave or IP network transmission and reception of the information. Telemetry information over wire had its origins in the 19th century.

Cardiac Telemetry comes in handy in monitoring a patient's heart rate and rhythm which takes place at a distant location, typically a nursing station in a cardiac telemetry area. They are used as patient monitoring machines. This technique is used to monitor patients recovering from heart surgeries, patients who may be at risk of heart problems, and patients experiencing health difficulties relating to the heart. Some hospitals have dedicated cardiac telemetry service since heart problems are a common situation in current times. When the patient is admitted, he or she undergoes a meticulous medical history and physical exam as well as an ECG and important cardiovascular exam.

How Voice/Speech Recognition Technology (SRT) Is Going to Affect Medical Transcription in the Future

Future of Medical Transcription/Trancriptionists:

For over a decade, voice recognition companies has been working to improve their softwares for MT purposes and now Naunce Dragon has introduced a powerful software other than before that is "Naunce Naturally Speaking Medical 10 software". According to the company, it provides 90-95% accuracy. There are also other companies that are providing such softwares, e.g. M*Model, etc.

A lot of physicians tried this software when it was launched. The physicians thought that it was great, at first, but when they has to train the software to their voices, and has to go back to correct the many mistakes the software would create on the report; they realized that they were losing time and money, as there was also need to review or QA the files... that would not be feasible those doctors who do not invest more time after dictations. Most of them came back to use the medical transcriptionist.