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Speech Recognition Integrated on The Institute of Pathology
| Title | Speech Recognition Integrated on The Institute of Pathology |
| Aidamount | 2.113.497 |
| Organization | IT-Health Care of the County of North Jutland |
| Conclusion | Ingen side valgt |
| Homepage | No homepage |
| Contact | Georg Rasmussen, Project Manager, u00005@aas.nja.dk |
| Other participants | Center for PersonKommunikation, the University of Aalborg |
| Theme | Digital Admin. |
| Keywords | Hospital
IT-Health
Pathology
Speech Recognition |
| Project start | 04 December 2001 |
| Project end | 31 December 2003 |
| Description | The project has its background in the typical typing situation of secretaries on Danish hospitals. Text for patient records etc. is voice recorded by the doctor using a microphone for storing on tapes (or digital media). Next the secretary will listen to the tape and write out the spoken text. This ties down a lot of resources, and the risk of misinterpretation is present (unclear pronunciation, bad quality tape etc.).
On the large speech areas (English/American, German, French and Spanish), solutions for speech recognition are available today within specific fields. These are solutions that are operational on e.g. hospitals and doctor's practices. This applies in particular to the fields of pathology and X-ray. These areas are characterized by a significant degree of uniformity of spoken linguistic usage.
The general purpose of the project is to employ information technology in the streamlining of procedures related to diagnostics.
The project includes the establishing of a Danish speech recogition system to be used in relation to the dictating function on the Institute of Pathology of the Hospital of Aalborg.
In practice this means that the text will appear on the screen as the doctor dictates directly to the computer.
With an efficient speech recognition system available, a variety of advantages are anticipated:
- Saving secretary resources
(which will contribute to a solution to the anticipated problem of recruiting qualified medical secretaries)
- More varied and attractive tasks for the secretaries
(less time spent on monotonous typing, freeing up more time for reviewing and other IT tasks)
- A reduced time of turnover and response
(by eliminating steps in the procedure)
Within the project the speech recognition system will be evaluated by the users, and investigations will made concerning the consequences of such a system to the procedures of the Institute of Pathology.
A speech recognition system is expected to be operational in a lot of functions, partly within the health services, but also for other dictating needs, e.g. private letters etc.
Participants in the project are the Institute of Pathology og the Hospital of Aalborg, Center for Personkommunikation of the University of Aalborg, and MaxManus, a private firm in charge of the product development in cooperation with Philips.
The organisation in charge of the project is IT-Health Care of the County of North Jutland. |
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