Celebrate National Medical Transcriptionist Week May 18-24, 2009
AHDI, (The Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity, formerly known as AAMT, The American Association for Medical Transcription) celebrates ‘National Medical Transcriptionist Week’ every year in May for the critical role that we, medical transcriptionists, (healthcare documentation specialists) play in the accurate capture and documentation of patient encounter information. This year in light of the [...]
Will speech recognition replace human in medical transcription?
“No,” at least for the next one or two decades. Efforts in this regard began as early as 1936 and it was only in early 1980s, the technology reached the commercial market. You could see the chronology of development of speech recognition technology at Dragon Medical Transcription.
SRT also known as voice recognition (VR), automated speech [...]
