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Speech Technology Speech recognition offers efficiencies today but recent innovations and new technologies will expand the horizon of opportunity with speech technologies that will change the human computer interface, simplifying the interaction and offering new and innovative tools that increase efficiency and safety of healthcare delivery and reduce the administrative burden and decrease costs. Medical […]
So there was a lot of interest in the paper published in JAMIA Method of electronic health record documentation and quality of primary care published on JAMI this month. A quick summary They evaluated 18,569 primary care visits, 234 doctors in 2007-08 •Note taking Breakdown –62% of free-text notes –29% structured documentation –9% mainly dictated […]
via freep.com Cars that understand what you say….coming to a car near you. Part of the ongoing push and the new age of speech recognition is the ability to understand what the driver asks for with interpretive system that include natural language processing (NLP) and some element of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to offer drivers a […]
Watson Emerges Champion in Jeopardy Watson emerged the Jeopardy Champion last night with a resounding $ 77,147, beating both competitors (Ken Jennings:$ 24,000 and Brad Rutter:$21,600) by over 300% ($53,147/$55,547). Hats off to Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter for taking on the challenge and doing such a great job This was followed today with the joint Nuance/IBM […]
Following up from my post back in June (NLP in Health care) the Jeopardy challenge is on – coming to your TV February 14 – 16. There was lots of coverage of the announcementThis from the Washington Post – “‘Jeopardy!’ to pit humans against IBM machine” and the IBM releaseKen Jennings and Brad Rutter two […]
Thought critical free-text physician notes are under threat in the current slew of Electronic Medical Records and are at risk of being washed away in the rush towards the digitization of medical records. In Jeff Barry’s article in Health Management Technology; “Value of Unstructured patient narrative” he cites examples of Throwing the patient out with […]
The Atlantic featured a post by David Rothman that presented an iPad Stimulus plan: A national information stimulus plan: How iPad-style tablets could help educate millions and trim bureaucracy–not just be techno toys for the D.C. elite. Hold on – don’t give up quite yet, it’s not quite as crazy as it sounds and he […]
Along the lines of Deep Blue IBM is breaking new ground with its latest research innovation “Watson” focused no Natural Language Processing applied in this instance to the well known television game of Jeopardy. Take a look at the video that features the Super Computer Watson pitted against contestants in a real game of Jeopardy. […]
