nVoq’s CEO, Charles Corfield, delves into the hypothesis of our declining immune systems and how that could be a factor in the rise of COVID-19 cases. This is our thirteenth installment of Charles’ thoughts around the current pandemic. Check back …
COVID-19: Herd Immunity and Sending Children Back to School
nVoq’s CEO, Charles Corfield, shares his thoughts on herd immunity and the controversial topic of sending children back to school. This is our twelfth installment of Charles’ thoughts around the current pandemic. We will usually post updates on Mondays, but …
COVID-19 Spike in Cases: What to Consider for Fall
In our eleventh installment of Charles Corfield’s pandemic blog, he discusses the spike in cases for COVID-19 and what we might want to consider for the Fall to help the spread. Please check back every Monday as Charles shares his …
Antibody Testing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Charles Corfield, nVoq’s CEO, is back with his latest thoughts on antibody testing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Please check back weekly to read more of Charles’ thoughts. About the Author
New Therapies for COVID19: Ivermectin Dosing Issues
nVoq’s CEO, Charles Corfield, continues to provide transparency around drug research studies during the pandemic. Ivermectin was showing early promise in fighting the virus, but is the dosing within normal limits? Please check back weekly to read more of Charles’ …
New Therapies for COVID19: Why Transparency Around Drug Research is Key
This week, nVoq’s CEO, Charles Corfield, educates us on why transparency around drug research is so important. Please check back on Mondays to read more of Charles’ thoughts around the ongoing pandemic. About the Author First, a few updates on …
Wake Up Words and Viral Proteins: More Similar than you Would Think
In this week’s pandemic blog, nVoq’s CEO, Charles Corfield illustrates how the concept of wake-up words/phrases which are usually associated with speech recognition devices might be tied to viral proteins and how that helps frame the problem that, in some …
A look at an unexpected way of gathering research through digital thermometers and how a simplistic approach might be a way to ward off the virus.
Charles Corfield continues his weekly COVID-19 update with a look at an unexpected way of gathering research through digital thermometers and he wonders if a simplistic approach might be a way to ward off the virus. Please check back on …
An odd correlation between cigarette smokers and COVID-19
In our fourth installment of Charles Corfield’s pandemic blog, he discusses an odd correlation between cigarette smokers and COVID-19. Please check back every Monday as Charles shares his thoughts on what is trending with COVID-19. About the Author On the …
The pharma side of COVID-19 and what family of drugs might show promise.
Charles Corfield, nVoq’s CEO, shares his thoughts this week into the pharma side of COVID-19 and what family of drugs might show promise. This is our third installment of Charles’ thoughts on COVID-19 and, for fans, a mention of Monty …
Charles Corfield’s COVID 19 Weekly Assessment: COVID-19 Antibody tests
Today, nVoq is sharing the second installment of Charles Corfield’s weekly update to the pandemic crisis. Charles covers testing this week and what it means for positive and negative results. Also, Charles looks at where we should be headed for …
Charles Corfield’s COVID 19 Weekly Assessment
At nVoq, we are very fortunate to get a weekly pandemic update from our CEO, Charles Corfield. In this state of unrest, Charles provides his analysis and gives us a few points to ponder. We will be sharing Charles’ blogs …
Are your Home Healthcare clinicians frustrated with the amount of time spent on patient charting?
As a critical care nurse, I recall how frustrating it was to work my tail off, for a 12-hour shift, only to discover that I still had to spend another few hours completing my patient charting. Sound familiar? We have …
Artificial Intelligence and Magical Thinking
For many physicians alternative/complementary medicine is a sore point, where magical thinking on the part of patients and unproven/false claims by practitioners lead to significant harm (people die or are severely injured). When it comes to AI, physicians too may …
Enterprise-Class Speech API – More Than Great Dictation
Over the last decade, we have worked to develop the fastest, most accurate, and most reliable dictation in the industry. Leveraging the latest advancements in machine learning and scalable cloud architecture, nVoq’s speaker-independent medical dictation service delivers just that – …
Tired of cumbersome speech solutions that don’t get the job done? It’s time to try nVoq’s SayIt,™ the cloud-based solution that’s simple & effective!
At Alliance, we are not new to the use of speech recognition and recognize its time saving potential. We’ve been using speech with Meditech 6.15 for a while. Unfortunately, our previous solution continued to fall short of our expectations. Our …
Upping the Game for Home Healthcare Workers: Improving Satisfaction and Patient Outcomes
There’s often discussion surrounding the idea that happier individuals do a better job. While that makes intuitive sense, it turns out it’s also backed by science. Recent research in psychology has demonstrated that being successful in any endeavor requires happiness …
SayIt: The HIPAA Compliant, Cloud-based Speech API
The popularity of consumer-oriented applications like Siri and Alexa has greatly increased awareness of and comfort with speech recognition solutions as a big time-saver. Therefore, it’s not surprising that many clinicians are turning to these same offerings to capture clinical …
Privacy Matters
My inbox recently filled up with notices from numerous companies letting me know they had updated their privacy policies and were committed to protecting my data in the context of those policies. Fascinatingly, this flurry of activity took place in …
Nachos Neurosurgery
When we deployed the first version of SayIt almost ten years ago, we delivered a solution that was limited when compared to the SayIt of 2018. We were first to the web and the product was good. But, looking back, …
Physician Burnout? See how Speech Recognition Can Help!
Mirroring national trends, the Stanford doctors who responded to both the 2013 and 2016 surveys expressed increased burnout and decreased professional fulfillment. In fact, there was a 13 percent increase between 2013 and 2016 for those who self-reported burnout. In …
With SayIt™ from nVoq, your Cloud-Based Speech Recognition is not just accurate, but HIPAA compliant
In today’s world, speech recognition has gained considerable popularity in everything from text messaging to medical dictation. And why shouldn’t it have? Accurate speech recognition saves time and allows for an improved, hands-free workflow. But not all speech recognition solutions …
You’ve got a good radiology solution. Here’s how to make it great.
Speech recognition or “VR” (voice recognition), as it is commonly referred to, is a tool that has been widely adopted by those in the medical industry, especially radiologists. At a bare minimum, speech recognition improves the quality of reports produced …
The Benefits of Mindfulness: Why you Need this in Your Life and Practice
So, what exactly is mindfulness? Simply put, mindfulness is the quality or state of being consciously aware. This mental state is achieved by focusing your awareness on the present moment and acknowledging the accompanying feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations without …
The Evolution of Clinical Workflow Optimization
The average medical provider receives between eight and 12 years of formal education followed by practical experience and continuing education. It’s an understatement to say that these providers are highly trained! Nevertheless, as well-versed as they are in the medical …
Next-Generation GPUs: Driving Innovation in Speech Technology and Beyond
As I’ve written before, this is a textbook disruption story. Speech recognition accuracy has grown exponentially over the last few years using off the shelf components (GPU’s, Deep Learning Libraries, etc.) to displace the expensive integrated solutions offered by the …
Bring back the Narrative
“Without a narrative portion in my note, I cannot describe my clinical findings in a meaningful way.” This is what my PCP told me when I inquired about her new EHR. They had just replaced their old EHR with a …
Hiring the Right Product to Get the Job Done (Better)
Since reading Clayton Christensen’s groundbreaking book “The Innovator’s Dilemma” almost twenty years ago, I was hooked on finding and capitalizing on disruption. “The Innovator’s Solution” and “Seeing What’s Next” complete the framework for explaining past disruptive innovations as well as …
How to Choose the Medical Speech Recognition Solution That’s Right for You
What are your speech recognition needs? Currently there are multiple speech recognition solutions geared towards the medical industry. Each differs somewhat and offers a variety of features that present both strengths and weaknesses depending upon your individual needs. Choosing which …
PIMSY + SayIt
We’ve always provided integrated speech recognition to our PIMSY clients; however, when we discovered that SayIt® from nVoq offers a more streamlined, affordable and easy-to-use speech recognition option, we of course wanted to offer our customers an enhanced product. Get …
Is your Cloud-based Speech Recognition HIPAA Compliant?
In today’s complex healthcare environment, clinicians are desperately looking for ways to improve efficiency and decrease the burden of clinical documentation. Speech recognition is gaining in popularity and consumers are now accustomed to speaking instead of typing. A few words …
It’s Prime Time for Neural Nets in Speech Recognition
In the last few years, the research community has taken another look at using neural nets in speech recognition (aka “Machine Learning”) with impressive results. The application of neural nets to speech recognition was pioneered in the 1990’s, but a …
Speech Recognition does much more than convert speech-to-text.
When speech recognition was introduced to healthcare it was with the promise of doing away with medical transcriptionists, before the implementation of electronic medical records. The promise was that clinicians would be able to dictate clinical notes and document findings …