Quality-of-service improvements from coupling a digital chest unit with integrated speech recognition, information, and Picture Archiving and Communications Systems

Speech recognition reporting for chest examinations was introduced and tightly integrated with a Radiology Information System (RIS) and a Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS). A feature of this integration was the unique one-to-one coupling of the workstation displayed case and the reporting via speech recognition for thatand only that particular examination and patient. The utility of the resulting, wholly integrated electronic...