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JAMIA 1997;4:436-441 doi:10.1136/jamia.1997.0040436
  • Focus on Consumer Health
  • Application of Information Technology

A Voice-enabled, Structured Medical Reporting System

  1. David F Rosenthal,
  2. JoAnne M Bos,
  3. Rachael A Sokolowski,
  4. Jennifer B Mayo,
  5. Kerry A Quigley,
  6. Roger A Powell,
  7. Mary-Marshall Teel
  1. Affiliation of the authors: Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, Inc. Waltham, MA
  1. Correspondence and reprints: David Rosenthal, PhD, Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, Inc., 411 Waverley Oaks Road, Waltham, MA 02154. E-mail: daver{at}kurzweil.com
  • Received 15 May 1997
  • Accepted 16 July 1997

Abstract

Kurzweil Applied Intelligence received a research grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Technology Program to develop a prototype voice-enabled, structured medical reporting system. In typical usage, the physician dictates to the system, which then uses automatic speech recognition and medical knowledge bases to produce a structured report. This report can then be formatted and viewed on a computer screen, stored in databases of patient information, transmitted to other systems, used to support outcome studies, or viewed on a Web browser. The output reports are structured according to two standard, platform-independent formats: SGML and CORBA. These formats represent the data in a way that can be read by both computers and humans, and efficiently communicated to a wide range of databases and communications protocols.

Footnotes

  • Presented in part at the AMIA Spring Conference, San Jose, CA, May 1997.

  • This research is supported by a grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology Advanced Technology Program.

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