No experience of the specific electronic record
Tablet computing can be hit and miss at times and thievery is a bit
of an issue ( by punters not staff) as these are easy to put under a
shirt if left in the wrong place, may not be an issue with your
punters but wouldnt fancy it with ours
Voice recognition can be very hit and miss, whos it for docs, nurses
or all.
The best voice recognition I had was dragon naturally speaking and
this was excellent and near normal conversation speed but did require
training for each staff member using it just to get the voice
training, factor in an hour per person for this. Once it gets your
voice then its off, the only drawback is that once any one gets a
cold the system will not recognise their voice as well or at all.
Dragon plugs in to many products and it may well be the back engine
behind your electronic record it does best with speech and can take
some time to get used to single words or lists as there may be in
electronic records.
My experience was with databases and it took quite a bit of time for
people to get used to tabbing it forward this may be different with a
tablet PC, do you touch with stylus or finger.
Do you have any issues with infection control people or have they
seen them yet.
Sounds like a great initiative
Mick Molloy
On 13 Sep 2007, at 12:59, Dunn Matthew Dr. (RJC) A & E - SwarkHosp-TR
wrote:
> We are thinking of moving to an electronic record in A and E (from
> memory, the Royal Free already has this, and presumably some other
> places); working off a tablet computer that includes voice
> recognition software. Anyone got any positive or negative
> experiences of this or things to watch out for etc.?
>
> Matt Dunn
> Warwick
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