Bmc Med Inform Decis
-
Bmc Med Inform Decis · Aug 2010
Comparative StudySpeech recognition software and electronic psychiatric progress notes: physicians' ratings and preferences.
The context of the current study was mandatory adoption of electronic clinical documentation within a large mental health care organization. Psychiatric electronic documentation has unique needs by the nature of dense narrative content. Our goal was to determine if speech recognition (SR) would ease the creation of electronic progress note (ePN) documents by physicians at our institution. ⋯ Although our findings are mixed, SR may be a technology with some promise for mental health documentation. Future investigations of this nature should use more participants, a broader range of document types, and compare front- and back-end SR methods.