Emerging Technologies holds Speech Recognition Technology for Healthcare Sector seminar

The First regional seminar entitled “Speech Recognition Technology for Healthcare Sector” was held recently at the Sheraton Hotel with a wide participation of experts and interested people in the medical field. The seminar, organized by Emerging Technologies and Nuance, offered state-of-the-art solutions that provide Speech Recognition, Dragon Medical Dictation and Transcription Systems and services from Nuance, designed to simplify and enhance the production and management of electronic patient documentation.

“We have been giving value to the medical professional field through increased productivity and better information management in the Gulf countries; and now we are extending that to Jordan and Lebanon,” said Sassine Mazraani, CEO - Emerging Technology.  Mazraani stressed that the seminar aimed at creating awareness about this new technology and to advocate that there is a local company based in MENA who can provide full support for it.

The attendants were specialized experts in their fields including CEO / CIO / CMO / CFO / Medical Directors / IT Managers in addition to Chief Radiologists / Radiologists / Radiographers / Radiology administrators, Chief Pathologists / Pathologists / Lab Technologist, Chief Cardiologists/Cardiologists / Cardiac Technicians, Medical Practitioners / Clinicians / Department Heads, and HIMS/HIS admin. The attendees highly commended the introduction of these new solutions in the Kingdom through a local company stating that doctors from any specialty, who currently use the traditional manual method of creating medical reports or who type the reports themselves have enormously benefited from the seminar