AXREM Position Statement on Cloud-based Medical Voice Recognition Solutions
08 August 2024
Transforming Radiology to Meet Today’s Diagnostics Reporting Challenges
AXREM is the UK trade association representing the interests of suppliers of diagnostic medical imaging, radiotherapy, healthcare IT and care equipment including patient monitoring in the UK. Our group is comprised of most of the industry supply companies. AXREM members supply the majority of diagnostic medical imaging and radiotherapy equipment installed in UK hospitals.
In doing so, our member companies and their employees work side by side with a wide range of healthcare professionals in delivering healthcare to patients using our technologies. Our members therefore have unique knowledge, experience and insight into the workflow and challenges faced by healthcare professionals on a day-to-day basis, which enables us to develop and offer innovative solutions to improve the speed and quality of patient care.
This position paper has been authored by members of the AXREM Imaging IT Special Focus Group that supports and represents members of the healthcare IT supplier industry who provide most of the diagnostic medical imaging IT installed in UK hospitals. This can be PACS, RIS and cloud based systems.
Innovation has been, and continues to be, the life-blood of developments in technology. Today, cloud computing stands at the forefront of technological advances and modernisation of applications and systems that in some cases precede the year in which the term ‘cloud’ came into widespread use.
Voice recognition in radiology reporting has come of age. Its ubiquity has led to many solution adaptations and innovations. The combination of ‘cloud and medical voice recognition’ as a means to easily meet the constant and growing challenges that radiologists face, is the basis to a proposed transformative flexible solution that carries the much needed attributes to help shape the future of diagnostics reporting.
Human-computer interaction has changed. Historically humans have had to adapt to technologies and to integrating them into their daily work and lives. Medical voice recognition, as a technology, was developed to help clinicians adapt to meet workloads with the use of computing resource. Now, thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-computing, technology is being designed to adapt to humans, making it easier to use and more accessible.
In conclusion cloud-based medical voice recognition represents not only a technological transformation for radiology but a societal advancement, empowering healthcare individuals, organisations, and communities to communicate, collaborate, and innovate in ways previously limited. As champions of progress, AXREM is committed to driving the next chapter in the evolution of VR technology in diagnostics and imaging, to shape a more interconnected future for all healthcare.
Jonathan Whitmore, Director of Sales for Augnito at Scribetech (UK) Ltd who co-authored the paper, said upon its release “For cloud-based voice recognition solution providers like Scribetech, being a member of the AXREM community bestows on us the industry validation and credibility that we each need to continue to be relied upon, not just by diagnostic and imaging professionals – users of our solutions – but by other technology providers and regulators. This positioning statement reflects our commitment to delivering that reliance as disruptive innovation leads in our field and progressing the conversation to how AI can positively impact the future of imaging in the cloud today”.
Sally Edgington, AXREM Chief Executive Officer said upon the paper being published “This paper is another example of the depth of expertise that we have within AXREM membership and how as a trade association we are using this knowledge to highlight and produce important position papers like this ”.
You can download a copy of the paper here: AXREM Position Statement on Cloud-based Medical Voice Recognition Solutions – AXREM