SpeechMike
The professional’s choice
An increasingly mobile business community, growing documentation volumes and increasing cost pressure in highly competitive markets have made dictation a crucial factor for law firms, hospitals and other professional businesses. Philips responded to those needs by developing a full range of high quality professional dictation and transcription products that enable you to optimize the entire documentation workflow on an unprecedented scale. Whether in a small office or a large, networked facility, the SpeechMike is the accepted standard for PC dictation. Several models of SpeechMike let the user choose the model that works best for his needs. The software and configuration tools let the user, administrator or the network administrator adjust settings that optimize the SpeechMike to any dictation environment or application.
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Author and administrator are united in this powerful
machine that allows a smooth transfer of speech-totext. The lightweight 4-Position Switch microphone can be attached to either side of the unit, so you can control all of the major dictation functions with one hand. Plus, a Sensitivity Switch means that you can select the optimum recording level for the environment. Index Tone markers can prioritise documents, as well as carry special instructions.When transcribing, a large digit LCD shows all the information you need to manage your workload.
LFH725 Key Benefits
- Fast return to the beginning of the tape with Auto Rewind
- Quick access to the start of the next job with Search Forward and Skip functions
- LCD Tape Counter shows information stored on cassette
It can often take a long time for a patient to receive his medical report. Once the diagnosis has been made, the report still has to be dictated and then typed up. Digital dictation technology aims to streamline this workflow, although there is a lot more to it than simply recording a dictation: digital dictation devices are specifically designed to meet the demands of the relevant working environment. They can read in the patient information, automatically assign the data to the relevant report and are even capable of interpreting human speech. Because analog cassette-based devices have been superseded by digital technology, patients are now receiving their reports much more quickly.
Philips Dictation Systems launched the world’s first analog dictation device in 1954, breaking new technical ground. For the first time, doctors were able to work independently of a secretary and simply dictate onto tapes, allowing the dictation to be later transcribed by typists. Because the process made life so much easier, it quickly became standard practice. To this day, half of the European medical profession continues to work in this way. However, in a hectic medical environment, cassettes fall somewhat short of the ideal data carrier: they are easily lost and once damaged are unusable.
Digital dictation devices solve many of the problems of their analog predecessors. Rat
her than dictating onto cassettes, the user dictates directly onto the PC or saves the dictations on an SD memory card. This means that each dictation is available digitally in audio file format.The audio file is thus available to the typing pool for transcription immediately after recording. Because dictations recorded in crystal-clear, digital sound quality are much easier to understand, the number of errors and therefore the number of corrections the secretaries have to make are significantly reduced.
Digital dictation devices also offer a number of additional user benefits. The SpeechMike from Philips, for example, is a microphone, barcode scanner, speaker and mouse in one. It is connected directly to the computer via USB interface and allows the doctor to record and play back dictations, to navigate through PC applications and to read in patient data electronically.
