Efficiency and safety of speech recognition for documentation in the electronic health record.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the efficiency and safety of using speech recognition (SR) assisted clinical documentation within an electronic health record (EHR) system with use of keyboard and mouse (KBM).

Methods

Thirty-five emergency department clinicians undertook randomly allocated clinical documentation tasks using KBM or SR on a commercial EHR system. Tasks were simple or complex, and with or without interruption. Outcome measures included task completion times and observed errors. Errors were classed by their potential for patient harm. Error causes were classified as due to IT system/system integration, user interaction, comprehension, or as typographical. User-related errors could be by either omission or commission.

Results

Mean task completion times were 18.11% slo

SUBMITTER: Hodgson T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7651984 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature