Speech Recognition and Medical Transcription: Throw Away Everything You Thought You Knew

Lynn Kosegi, PMP

CE Credit: 1 TW

This presentation will focus on speech recognition "then and now." Drawing on experience with multiple companies and speech recognition vendors and many different types of implementations, the speaker will compare what we thought about optimization and implementation in the early days of speech recognition to what we know now. The session will be of interest to those who are new to speech recognition, to experienced users who have not seen the return on investment expected, and to users who have done well, but would like to optimize results.

Topics will include:

• Where are we with speech recognition today? How has the technology changed?
• What have we learned? The new best practices for speech recognition adoption and use.
• Measuring success—Using the right metrics at the right time for the right purpose
• Creative compensation
• A comparison of a 2005 AHIMA presentation given by this speaker with what her message is today

Speaker Bio

Lynn Kosegi is the director of health information services at M*Modal, a leading provider of speech understanding technology. She has worked in the health information profession for more than 25 years for physician practices, hospital HIM departments, and MTSOs and has witnessed first-hand the evolution of the industry from paper document to today's advanced technologies.