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Medical
Advanced Media’s AmiVoice is the unrivaled speech recognition solution in the medical area.
We mainly market products such as speech recognition packages specialized for electronic medical records, which contain as much as 300,000 medical terms in their dictionaries.
“Keyboard Allergy” of Japanese people, the main obstacle of the popularization of electronic medical records, is no longer a problem with AmiVoice.
In December 2001, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare launched its grand design for computerization in the healthcare field. This plan listed the following targets for the adoption of electronic medical records.
Targets listed to build medical information system
By fiscal 2005
Achieve the adoption of an electronic medical record system by at least one facility in each of Japan’s Secondary Medical Care Areas
By fiscal 2007
Achieve adoption of electronic medical record systems by over 60% of Japan’s hospitals with over 400 beds, and by over 60% of clinics.
A survey conducted in January 2005 showed that the adoption of electronic medical records in Japan was just over 10%, which was an extremely disappointing figure.
Reasons for this included the cost of the installation and maintenance of electronic medical record systems, information security problems, and delays in standardization of technical terms and format of documents, but each of these problems is beginning to be solved. It is widely believed that the last remaining obstacle is medical institutions’ lack of understanding of electronic medical records. One grave example of this is that medical institutions think it a problem that previously handwritten medical records must be input using a keyboard. Although the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is promoting efficiency and unification of information, the understanding on the hospital floor is still that the adoption of electronic medical records results in inefficiency. The adoption of electronic medical records is essential to increase the provision of state-of-the-art medical treatment. Advanced Media thinks that AmiVoice offers a solution to this dilemma, and that it can make a contribution to progress in the field of medical area in Japan. Making the information society more familiar in daily life—Advanced Media regards this as the mission of AmiVoice.
Making speech recognition a ubiquitous tool in the medical field
Because medical records are at present hand-written, they can be difficult to read, even for other physicians. This can make it difficult to give the patient proper explanations, and gives rise to a number of other problems. The adoption of electronic medical records not only solves these problems at one stroke, but also offers a number of other benefits. Standardized handling of test results will make it possible for these to be easily transmitted from hospital to hospital, facilitating effective treatment and medication Doctors cannot afford to write medical records in emergency wards and operating rooms, but we think the use of speech recognition in making entries under these conditions may contribute to significant advances in the medical field.
In today’s world, water is available with the turn of a faucet, and heat is just the turn of a gas knob away. What achievements will emerge when speech recognition is as commonly available as these? We are engaged in the joint development of the infrastructure for electronic medical records, and are at the same time encouraging the popularization of speech recognition technology.
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