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Automatic Medical Transcribing
Nuance’s health care speech-recognition capabilities reduce a key physician burden. Credit: Nuance
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Automatic medical transcription continued to gain traction as telemedicine accelerated during the pandemic. Transcribing clinical notes requires excellent sound quality and an understanding of medical terminology, which has been a roadblock for its adoption. Advances in artificial intelligence are improving accuracy and speed as well as providing real-time diagnostic analysis and physician alerts.
In April 2021, Microsoft announced it would acquire voice recognition software provider Nuance Communications—a move that positioned the tech giant to boost its health care cloud services. Nuance’s integrations into such EHR systems as Epic and Cerner allow providers to dictate notes, use their voice to navigate EHR systems, and ultimately reduce the time it takes to provide reports to patients. By using automatic transcription in telehealth visits, providers can worry less about note-taking and focus more on the patient, while picking up on small cues that might otherwise be difficult to detect.
As accuracy improves, automatic transcription can reduce the documentation burden for providers and potentially stave off burnout. Machine learning could also provide suggestions or alerts to doctors, based on the conversation’s context. Clinical notes increasingly provide datasets for AI training, so improved accuracy may lead to better diagnostic algorithms.
• Amazon Transcribe Medical • Amazon Comprehend Medical • Microsoft/Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience • Nvidia BioMegatron
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