About Ashworth Street Surgery

Ashworth Street Surgery is committed to offering high-quality care to their valued patients, With over twenty years in the healthcare sector.

However, they decided it was time for a medical makeover and contacted Nuance Healthcare Elite Partner, VoicePower Ltd to find the right solution for them.

Hence, we caught up with one of Ashworth Street’s dedicated doctors, Dr Steve Doyle to reflect on their journey to a more efficient practice.

The Hurdle

The surgery pinpointed the amount of time spent inputting patient consultations, and creating referral letters and forms as the reason for seeking the professional advice of VoicePower Ltd.

Dr Doyle expressed that the manual inputting of data was a tipping point for him.

“I spent a lot of time correcting typing errors, as someone who is a poor typist”. Additionally, “our administration team had a big backlog of typing.” – Steve Doyle, Ashworth Street Surgery

Ultimately, Ashworth Street Surgery was seeking a means of creating documentation which was more simple and a lot more time-efficient.

The Solution: Clinical Speech Recognition

After reaching out to VoicePower Ltd – The Speech Recognition People, Dr Doyle met with our team to discuss their current workflow system and their objectives in trading this system in for something brand-new.

Ashworth Street Surgery then expressed its aims, objectives, and results it would like to achieve with its new solution.

Following this assessment period and getting to know the requirements of the practice, VoicePower’s team decided on a solution that would best fit their needs.

That solution was Dragon Medical Practice Edition 4, the clinical speech recognition solution curated by Nuance Communications.

This particular version of the software is perfect for the clinical environment.

It delivers precise, accurate speech recognition with which clinicians can dictate directly into a patient’s electronic records.

Most importantly, it has an in-built medical vocabulary to ensure 99% accuracy and is compliant with most EPR systems.

Watch Dr Doyle using Dragon Clinical Speech Recognition within the EMIS Web EPR system here.

Dragon Has Major Impact

After receiving their Dragon training from certified Dragon Medical trainers in the VoicePower team, Ashworth Surgery was ready to transform its workflow.

Dr Doyle confirmed his varied use for Dragon clinical speech recognition by stating: “I need to make entries into patient’s records during a consultation, complete referral forms and produce various referral letters. With all of these situations, I now use speech recognition.”

Furthermore, Dr Doyle’s quality of work has also improved; “because I have more time, my consultations contain more information and are more detailed than they perhaps were previously.”

“Before the introduction of speech recognition, our administration team had a big backlog of typing which has been greatly reduced.” – Steve Doyle, Ashworth Street Surgery

As a result, Dr Doyle went on to say “I don’t think it is an exaggeration to say the use of speech recognition has had a major impact on the way that I work.”

Health Check From A Dragon

Ashworth Street Surgery works tirelessly to ensure the health of their patients, and now realise the importance of caring for the business in the same way.

Thanks to the implementation of Dragon Medical speech recognition, users can save a minimum of an hour per day.

Furthermore, doctors at the surgery maximised their return on investment by choosing to be trained on their new software by VoicePower Ltd.

Following the training, the doctors enjoyed a smooth transition to their new product. Additionally, they can utilise Dragon speech recognition to its full ability through learning tips, tricks and various functions.

Dr Doyle has benefitted from the training, agreeing that “using speech recognition has become second nature, I am now very comfortable using it.”

Through developing his skills, Dr Doyle has noticed what he called “a significant reduction in GP workload.”

“I get more time to actually spend talking to the patients rather than looking away whilst typing.” – Steve Doyle, Ashworth Street Surgery

Similarly, the staff aren’t the only ones enjoying the benefits of Dragon Medical Practice Edition, the patients are too:

“Clinical safety is improved with the ability to record more detailed information quickly. The quality of the consultations is improved with its usage and with that, the service quality provided to the patients has increased.” – Steve Doyle, Ashworth Street Surgery

Once you make the leap, you won’t look back: “I feel grieved when to start typing things into the computer when I am at home using my own PC!”

What does Ashworth Street Surgery Think About VoicePower?

“Voice Power provided excellent service with the introduction of clinical speech recognition into this practice. The on-site individual training was excellent and any queries have been dealt with quickly and efficiently.” – Steve Doyle, Ashworth Street Surgery

Steve expresses: “I feel that should a problem arise I can quickly contact Voice Power and they respond to my needs appropriately. I look forward to utilising any further products that they develop.”

“Therefore, I would have no hesitation in recommending the system to others and I have indeed done so”