Transcription errors increased by speech-to-text systems</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Transcription errors increased by speech-to-text systems"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Transcription,errors,increased,by,speech-to-text,systems"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">17-03-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Transcription errors increased by speech-to-text systems</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_PSEROHPuzcxqmP22BtcY_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">New York, USA [Medscape (registration required)]: One of the driving forces for speech-to-text processing systems is the medical sector. This report, however, indicates that as hospitals have come under pressure from patients and health insurers to lower the rate of medication errors and adverse drug events, a small but growing number have purchased computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems. These systems, credited with lowering medication errors by up to 81%, can flag harmful drug-drug interactions, eliminate mistakes due to illegible handwriting, and reduce the likelihood of errors that stem from drugs with similar names. <br>Instead of preventing such mistakes, a new study finds that a widely used CPOE system actually fostered 22 types of medication error risks, some of them with disturbing frequency. The study appears in the March 9 issue of JAMA. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://mp.medscape.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/hmxo0KrDrK0D2L0GUW20Ei " target="blank">mp.medscape.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/hmxo0KrDrK0D2L0GUW20Ei </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show