Eric Topol Emphasizes Keyboard Liberation: MDs Dictating EHR Notes

In my note of July 24 (see:Dictating EHR Physician Notes Using an Apple Watch with AI Assistance), I discussed how the dictation of physician notes into an Apple Watch enabled by voice recognition, NLP, and AI software could be used to facilitate physician notes entry into the EHR. This software support for physician dictation is necessary because there is no keyboard input available with Apple Watch to make corrections. I just listened to a podcast interview of Eric Topol (see:Eric Topol on making healthcare more human), author of a recent book on digital medicine (see:Eric Topol pens book on artificial intelligence in medicine). In this interview, Topol makes reference to the"keyboard liberation" that is now taking place for physicians using voice recognition and other AI tools for data entry into EHRs but not necessarily associated with the Apple Watch. In so doing, the physicians will be once again be able make eye contact with patients during a visit. This same idea is also emphasized in a NYT interview with Topol article about his recent book (see:How Artificial Intelligence Could Transform Medicine).Another facet of this notion of keyboard liberation is that hospitals have been hiring EHR scribes who accompany physicians in examining rooms and transcribe data into the EHR via keyboard, allowing the physician to interact naturally with the patient. I have blogged extensively about the use of such scribes as well as virtual scribe technology whereby the p...
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