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To: Starlight who wrote (8075)	11/11/1999 5:47:00 PM
From: Ausdauer	Respond to of 60323

Betty, I was in our clinic today and one of my colleagues had a brand new digital voice recorder. The manufacturer was Dictaphone and the device can be found on their website... dictaphone.com dictaphone.com The one I handled was equipped with a bar code scanner pen that is swiped across the patient's ID bar. Then you just dictate as you would ordinarily. The hospital does not have the speech recognition software on-line yet, so the dictation is just downloaded to a PC where the file is then retrieved by a stenographer who can log onto the system from home. I went to the medical records department to see how it worked. I was sad to find out the the device uses (of all things) an Intel Miniature Card. There is a 2MB card with the purchase and my colleague had an 8MB card so that he didn't have to refuel in the middle of the day. The emergency room is dabbling with PC based voice recognition software and there are still some bugs. Certain people's dictations just come out with more than a little "jibberish" and it is time consuming to edit. The department head in medical records said they are thinking about training a few "expert dictators" who are not health care professionals. They actually use a headphone set and just redictate the entire encounter on their own PC. That way the physician is removed from the loop altogether (because they always seem to screw things up anyway). I wish they had invested in Lanier and some SanDisk CF cards instead. Ausdauer SanDisk...See the Big Picture