Shiraz Austin

As 2023 draws to a close, many of the key challenges faced by the NHS look set to continue, and even intensify, in the next year. New ways of working including speech recognition have the potential to future-proof patient journeys and help healthcare professionals manage their workloads.

From the first paper records to today’s connected, digital landscape, the way patient data is handled is constantly evolving. With Augnito Spectra, try a way of working that’s faster and more efficient now, while also future-proofing your organisation for the inevitable changes ahead.

For overworked medical professionals facing an ‘admin epidemic’, the promise of saving time with new technology is compelling. While medical speech recognition can save up to 1 hr of admin per day, it takes more than accuracy alone to turn these savings into better patient outcomes.

Trusts have been burned by tech that creates seemingly endless costs without delivering measurable value. While initial investment is within the budget, the expense of implementing, training, and managing adoption undermine the solution’s promised value – with these hidden costs adding to its true price – affecting patients.

With the NHS in crisis and more pressure to cut costs, now is the time to repurpose budgets into new technology where the impact on staff, patients, and outcomes will be biggest and where the value will be most effective – this doesn’t have to mean pricey IT investments.

The UK healthcare system is complex. Patient journeys are touched by many people, all with their unique care roles to play, which can compound processes when collaboration between providers becomes ineffective around the flow of patients and the flow of patient information.