BigHand today announced that Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is to extend its use of the BigHand digital dictation workflow system, further enhancing the trust’s ability to deliver first class patient care across a number of specialties.

The success of replacing tape dictation equipment with the BigHand system within oncology and renal has led the trust to extend into cardiothoracic, sleep unit, diabetes and endocrinology, speech and language therapy, and nutrition and dietetics.
 
Over 400 dictations are created every day within Oncology alone.  By replacing tape equipment with the BigHand system consultants are now able to—regardless of location—submit dictations as soon as they are created to a pool of secretaries for transcription. The instant submission of dictations coupled with improved workflow via BigHand eliminates the administrative delays caused by tape equipment, enabling trusts to meet key national health targets.