Dragonisms – Voice Misrecognition Contest

I like the Dragon NaturallySpeaking program. I like tequila, too. But I try to use both with caution. Dragon’s speech recognition is good in that it saves a lot of time and costs in transcribing medical records, especially in complicated patients where it would take a long time to type out the patient’s history and the patient’s course. The problem with Dragon NaturallySpeaking is that it isn’t perfect. Sometimes the difference between a doctor’s dictation of “no murmur present” and the Dragon transcription of “murmur present” can make a big difference in a patient’s workup. Other times, Dragon will misinterpret a dictated phrase for a similar-sounding but inappropriate phrase. I’ve tweeted about a few of them. For example, in the patient with GERD who was having repeated exacerbations, I dictated “bland diet” in the discharge instructions. Dragon apparently didn’t like the patient too much because it transcribed “plan to die” onto the chart. It’s fortunate that I didn’t miss that error while I was multitasking. Imagine those discharge instructions showing up in a patient complaint to an administrator. Another patient was recently looking for a prescription for oral contraceptives. The Catholic hospital in which I work doesn’t allow prescription of contraceptives from the ED, so I have to recommend that patients follow up at Planned Parenthood. Dragon translated m...
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