Voice Recognition in Healthcare
Here’s one opinion of eight from hospital Chief Medical Information Officers about voice recognition: “Physicians are more excited about ambient listening devices than anything I’ve seen in my career. The idea that physicians will be able to ask, ‘What was Bob’s last ejection fraction?’ or, ‘Have we ever tried Betty on an ACE inhibitor?’ is astounding. Soon these devices will be listening for documentation points or potential orders during office visits, all of which can be queued up for the physician to act on when he or she is ready. This is the future that clinicians have been waiting for. This is the technology that the EHR has been lacking.” This is the most encouraging of the eight. The review doesn’t mention medical errors, distant monitoring, conflicting noise or other issues. MORE
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