Windward Health provides two concentrations of medical editing:

·          Speech recognition editing of daily clinic reports.

·          Editing of medical journal articles.

Speech-Recognition Editing:

There are two types of speech recognition available to the medical dictator today: front-end where the dictator edits the report on a computer while dictating, and back-end where the dictator uses traditional telephone and/or handheld recorder to dictate and the editing work is done by trained transcriptionists.

Front-end speech recognition products like Dragon Naturally Speaking require physicians to make changes to their dictation habits and take the time to train the speech recognition software, and edit their own files as they dictate. Often this is met with resistance by doctors who believe they are being burdened with additional clerical work.

Back-end speech recognition requires no changes in physician behavior, relying instead on our automated training of the speech-recognition software to physician voice patterns. A medical editor then edits the document after the speech-recognition software has produced a draft report.

Back-end speech recognition is much more widely accepted and successful in the healthcare industry. This method allows medical clinics to recognize the greatest gains in efficiency because it integrates seamlessly into the traditional transcription and report distribution processes.

Windward Health’s medical editing service allows a healthcare professional to dictate their report using speech-recognition software to create a draft transcript. An off-site medical editor then proofs the draft while re-listening to the entire audio-dictation file.

Our medical editing service will provide your practice the following results:

Reliability – As a Windward Health medical editing customer, your practice will be backed up by our nationwide network of medical transcriptionists, providing reliable transcription support with no interruptions.

Cost Savings - The productivity gains we experience through the use of speech recognition create labor cost savings that are passed through to our clients. Clients using medical editing support typically pay 20 percent to 40 percent less than traditional transcription costs.

Turnaround Time – Speech-recognition editing clients are actively supported with emergency turnaround time options including 24x7 STAT file requests.

MEDICAL JOURNAL ARTICLE EDITING:

Windward Health provides copyediting, proofreading and fact-checking of articles for newsletters, magazines, books and other specialty publications.

If writing clinical articles is not one of your strengths, but you desire to have your work published  let Windward Health improve your article before you submit it for to a journal for peer review.

We edits articles for proper spelling, grammar and punctuation as well as consistency in tone, tense and format according to the stylistic requirements of the American Medical Association. We provide a tracking tool so you can view all our suggested changes.   

GET STARTED: Contact Us for help with your medical journal articles.