HealthsystemCIO.com July 16, 2020
Remember when doctors recorded their notes on cassette tapes? They hired transcriptionists to listen to the tapes and turn them into documentation that went into patient records. Then came back-end speech recognition, wherein physicians could dictate with software, creating a voice file to send to a transcriptionist.
Of course, doctors loved the fact that they could share the burden of documentation with their transcriptionists, but many hospitals and clinics found that method to be costly in resource and time. It became popular to place the responsibility on the doctor to transcribe their own voice files — hence front-end speech recognition.
These days, speech recognition vendors have found a way to assist the work of both doctors and administrations by automatically...
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