The digital scribe in clinical practice: a scoping review and research agenda.

ABSTRACT: The number of clinician burnouts is increasing and has been linked to a high administrative burden. Automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language processing (NLP) techniques may address this issue by creating the possibility of automating clinical documentation with a "digital scribe". We reviewed the current status of the digital scribe in development towards clinical practice and present a scope for future research. We performed a literature search of four scientific databases (Medline, Web of Science, ACL, and Arxiv) and requested several companies that offer digital scribes to provide performance data. We included articles that described the use of models on clinical conversational data, either automatically or manually transcribed, to automate clinical documentation. Of 20 i

SUBMITTER: van Buchem MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7997964 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature