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January 22, 2008

Barack Obama has said that a national electronic health records system will be a priority in his first term, not just for streamlining workflow at hospitals and physician offices but to cut costs and improve the quality of health care...
According to an article in Computerworld, Obama's national health records system will be costly, daunting - but an electronic health records system could save the nation $300B a year.

October 17, 2008

Speech recognition: a bridge for facilitating continuity of care
Finnish hospitals are increasingly realising there is a need to eliminate gaps in patient care in order to streamline clinical processes both in-house and with cooperating institutions.

September 24, 2008

Speech Recognition Can Bring Standardization
From a tool that was once predominantly used by radiologists, speech recognition is now enjoying much wider usage.

August 06, 2008

HCA and Philips Partner Euromed Networks Celebrate 10,000 MedSpeech Reports
Since the successful implementation of MedSpeech in Radiology departments at the HCA International group of Hospitals in Central London in March 2008, the organisation achieved the first milestone of 10,000 reports in July 2008.

July 22, 2008

Philips to talk about semantic interoperability issues in European healthcare at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid
MADRID, SPAIN - (HealthTech Wire) - Dr. Theo Bosma, business development manager at Philips Speech Recognition Systems, has been invited to speak on the topic of semantic interoperability at a special course of the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain (July 28, 2008).

July 09, 2008

SpeechMagic in the Financial Times
Philips Speech Recognition Systems was part of the eHealth briefing distributed with the Financial Times to 320,000 readers on July 9, 2008.

May 19, 2008

Arrendale to Integrate SpeechMagic™ to Improve Patient Safety
May 19, 2008 Cornelius, North Carolina – Arrendale Associates, Inc. (AAI) today announced that it has entered into a partnership with Philips Speech Recognition Systems which will see Philips' SpeechMagic technology integrated into its TA⁺ platform.

May 05, 2008

Dolbey Announces the Release of Voice2Text™ Back-End Speech Recognition Product
Concord, Ohio – Dolbey, a leader in healthcare dictation, transcription, speech and coding products, unveils a new speech recognition product at the Medical Transcription Industry Alliance conference in Long Beach, California on April 24, 2008.

April 15, 2008

Speech Recognition Goes South
First Radiology installation drives mid-market momentum for Crescendo and SpeechMagic™ in South Africa.

February 28, 2008

Movers & Shakers Interview with Marcel Wassink, Managing Director, Philips Speech Recognition Systems
Marcel Wassink, 42, joined Philips Speech Recognition Systems in 1999 as Sales and Marketing Director and has been managing the company since 2002. He has expanded the business scope from developing technology to providing industrial grade solutions for efficient information capturing in the healthcare sector.

January 29, 2007

Dolbey’s Patent Pending Fusion Audio ID™ Product Released
Cincinnati, Ohio – January 29, 2008: Dolbey & Co. announces the release of its latest product, Fusion Audio ID™, a custom interface that speaks the patient name before the physician begins to dictate.

January 18, 2007

iSOFT, Philips Speech Recognition Systems partner, launches real-time speech recognition for radiology information systems
The RadCentre radiology information system from IBA company iSOFT now offers real-time speech recognition so dictations appear instantly as screen text, which speeds the time to produce critical radiology reports and share patient diagnoses.

November 22, 2007

Philips to launch Slovenian radiology ConText in Ljubljana
November 28, 2007, 1:30 pm will mark the start of a new era in radiology reporting for Slovenia: Philips and Interexport will launch the country's first healthcare speech recognition system.

October 01, 2007

4 new SpeechMagic customer stories
SpeechMagic continues to be a success throughout the world. Our latest customer stories come from Scandinavia and Germany.

October 05, 2007

Philips Speech Recognition Systems Partner Event in Berlin
Speech recognition experts meet in Berlin, Germany

August 29, 2007

Philips SpeechMagic™ to be implemented in Munich’s public hospital network
Munich, Germany – Philips SpeechMagic speech recognition technology will be implemented at the Städtische Klinikum München GmbH. 100 physicians are going to work with the new system, which will be installed on 32 workstations.

July 24, 2007

Speech recognition powered reporting
Focusing on interoperability: Oslo's Ulleval University Hospital drives IT integration

Since the radiologists at Ulleval University Hospital in Oslo, Norway, went live with new RIS, PACS and speech recognition systems two years ago, the report turnaround time has decreased by 96%.

April 16, 2007

SpeechMagic user among top 25 innovators in healthcare
Crescendo customer and SpeechMagic end user, Dr Rosenthal at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, has been selected by Health Imaging and IT as one of the 25 top innovators for 2007 for his implementation of mobile speech recognition.

December 11, 2006

Philips SpeechMagic expands distribution network in Australasia
Soliton IT, a SpeechMagic integration partner from the UK will distribute SpeechMagic throughout Australasia, from their new office in Brisbane, Australia.

December 05, 2006

Philips awarded Best Idea of the Year
Philips has been presented with the "Best Idea of the Year" award by Spain's leading healthcare publication "Diario Medico". Philips received the award for its participation in the project VOZENEC (Voz en Estación Clínica) of the University Hospital Virgen del Rocío.

September 14, 2006

Philips SpeechMagic captures 25 percent of Norwegian Electronic Patient Record market
Vienna, Austria – Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) announced today that its SpeechMagic speech recognition technology will be implemented with the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system of Norway's Health Region South (HES).

July 19, 2006

Philips SpeechMagic to be implemented in Paris hospital-network AP-HP
Vienna, Austria – Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) announced today that Paris’ hospital network, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), will implement the speech recognition technology, SpeechMagic, in all of its 39 public hospitals.

June 12, 2006

SpeechMagic - Quick and exact medical reports within Spain’s healthcare service Castilla - La Mancha

Speech recognition eliminates manual transcription, reduces report turn-around time and improves patient care.