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Dictation Linked With Worse Care Than Other EHR Input Methods Back to Article >>

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05/25/2012

Arjen Westerink

Interesting study. Check out the VitalBlog for related discussions related to EHR dictation, scribes, natural language and speech recognition.


http://www.vitalblog.com

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05/24/2012

Ian Michel

Did the study address what tools the physicians were given to pull data from the free text. The lower ratings might be because the EHR system did not have the capacity to mine and analyze unstructured text.


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