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US 2017/0249425 A1Published application
Electronic health record compatible distributed dictation transcription system
AssigneeQSI Management, LLC
InventorsVivek Narayanaswamy, Alexander Stephen Karantza, Michael Italo Cardwell
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Abstract
An electronic health record compatible dictation transcription system records and edits audio in an encrypted format. The system delineates audio for different electronic health record fields during dictation (i.e., recording and editing of the audio in the encrypted format), and the system inserts large predetermined text portions into transcriptions of dictated text in response to verbal prompts in the dictation audio.
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A method of transcribing audible dictation into text for entry into an electronic health record, said method comprising:
- receiving audio at a microphone of a portable computing device;
- digitizing the received audio;
- recording the received, digitized audio in a memory of the portable computing device in an encrypted data structure;
- receiving a tag selection via a user interface of the portable computing device while recording the received, digitized audio;
- associating metadata with the audio data in the encrypted file structure in response to receiving the tag selection, wherein:
- the associated metadata comprises a timestamp and a type code;
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- the type code corresponds to a field of the electronic health record;
- performing speech recognition analysis on the encrypted data structure to transcribe the received, digitized, and recorded audio into text;
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- entering text corresponding to audio received after the timestamp of the associated metadata into the field of the electronic health record corresponding to the type code of the associated metadata.
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A method of transcribing audible dictation into text for entry into an electronic health record, said method comprising:
- receiving audio at a microphone of a portable computing device, wherein the audio includes a verbal macro prompt;
- digitizing the received audio;
- recording the received, digitized audio in a memory of the portable computing device in an encrypted data structure;
- performing speech recognition analysis on the encrypted data structure to transcribe the received, digitized, and recorded audio into text, wherein said performing voice recognition comprises identifying the verbal macro prompt and replacing the verbal macro prompt with predetermined text corresponding to the verbal macro prompt, wherein the predetermined text comprises words not in the verbal macro prompt;
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- displaying the transcribed text on a display of a user interface of the portable computing device, wherein the predetermined text is displayed differently from other text in the transcribed text such that a user of the portable computing device can identify and edit the predetermined text.
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A method of editing dictated audio stored in an encrypted data structure, said method comprising:
- receiving audio at a microphone of a portable computing device;
- digitizing the received audio;
- recording the received, digitized audio in a memory of the portable computing device in the encrypted data structure, wherein:
- the encrypted data structure comprises:
- a plurality of encrypted data segments, each representative of a portion of the received, digitized audio;
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- assembly data comprising parameters for decrypting and assembling the plurality of encrypted data segments for playback by an audio player to render a representation of the audio received at the microphone of the portable computing device, and
- each segment of the plurality of segments is limited to a size cap;
- receiving user input via a user interface of the portable computing device indicative of a time in the recorded audio;
- receiving replacement audio via the microphone of the portable computing device, wherein the received replacement audio is for replacement of the recorded audio after the time in the recorded audio indicated by the received user input indicative of the time in the recorded audio;
- digitizing the received replacement audio;
- recording the received, digitized replacement audio in the memory of the portable computing device in the encrypted data structure, wherein said recording the received, digitized replacement audio comprises:
- storing an additional encrypted data segment in the plurality of encrypted data segments of the encrypted data structure without altering or deleting any of the existing encrypted data segments;
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- altering the assembly data to cause the replacement audio represented by the additional encrypted data segment to be decrypted and rendered by the audio player instead of the received, digitized audio represented by at least a portion of one encrypted data segment of the plurality of encrypted data segments corresponding to the time in the recorded audio after the time indicated by the received user input.
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