VoiceLever Selected to Present at 12th Annual Congressional Internet Caucus

Strategic Insights -

VoiceLever, Inc., a pioneering startup in Redmond, WA, has been chosen from 29 global technology companies to showcase its groundbreaking on-body communications and computing platform, VoiceLeverO, at the esteemed 12th Annual Congressional Internet Caucus. This prestigious event brings together top industry leaders, including Nokia, Panasonic, Motorola, Microsoft, and Verizon, to present innovative solutions to Congressional policy debates affecting healthcare, public safety, security, and education sectors. By leveraging its platform, VoiceLever aims to address pressing healthcare issues, such as medical errors, inefficiencies, and paperwork burdens, which are highlighted in Tom Daschle's book, Critical: What We Can Do About the Healthcare Crisis.

Key Takeaways:

  • VoiceLever, Inc. was selected from 29 global technology companies to present its VoiceLeverO platform at the 12th Annual Congressional Internet Caucus, a prestigious event hosted on Capitol Hill.
  • The VoiceLeverO platform aims to address critical healthcare issues, such as medical errors, inefficiencies, and paperwork burdens, by providing hands-free, on-body communications and computing solutions.
  • Tom Daschle's book, Critical: What We Can Do About the Healthcare Crisis, underscores the need for improved healthcare IT, citing statistics on medical errors, paperwork burdens, and inefficiencies in the US healthcare system.
  • The VoiceLeverO platform features speech recognition for data entry, communications control, information retrieval, and speech synthesis, enabling clinicians to access patient information quickly and efficiently.
  • The platform is integrated with state-of-the-art speech technology from Conversay, a company founded by VoiceLever's founder, with deployments in over 10 million cellular phones and advanced jet fighter cockpits.
  • The Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee selects participants to showcase diverse views and perspectives on policy issues, highlighting hands-on demonstrations of how the internet is changing the future.

Statistics:

  • Up to 30-50% of clinicians' time is spent on paperwork.
  • An estimated 98,000 patients die annually in the US due to medical errors attributed to incorrect or inadequate documentation, illegible handwriting, miscommunication, or identification.
  • The US loses an estimated $85 billion annually due to inefficiencies in its healthcare system, which could be saved by matching the efficiency of other leading nations' healthcare systems.
  • The US spends $78 billion a year on paper-based medical records systems, leaving electronic transactions years or decades behind Europe.
  • Medical bills account for 50% of personal bankruptcies in the US.
  • Healthcare economics call for more efficiency, requiring less time, labor, errors, waste, and cost in a healthcare environment characterized by more complex patient needs.

Sources:

  • VoiceLever, Inc.
  • Tom Daschle's book, Critical: What We Can Do About the Healthcare Crisis
  • Congressional Internet Caucus
  • Conversay
  • Blood Weekly editors
  • NewsRx.com