Speech recognition for clinical documentation from 1990 to 2018: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The study sought to review recent literature regarding use of speech recognition (SR) technology for clinical documentation and to understand the impact of SR on document accuracy, provider efficiency, institutional cost, and more.

Materials and methods

We searched 10 scientific and medical literature databases to find articles about clinician use of SR for documentation published between January 1, 1990, and October 15, 2018. We annotated included articles with their research topic(s), medical domain(s), and SR system(s) evaluated and analyzed the results.

Results

One hundred twenty-two articles were included. Forty-eight (39.3%) involved the radiology department exclusively and 10 (8.2%) involved emergency medicine; 10 (8.2%) mentioned multiple departments

SUBMITTER: Blackley SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7647182 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature