Hand held medical prescription transcriber and printer unit

A process for preparing a printed copy of a medical prescription using a hand held transcriber and printer unit, said process comprising:

• providing a voice responsive input device which converts the user's spoken word acoustic inputs into analog signals;
• converting said analog signals into corresponding digital signals;
• providing a database of medical prescription information stored in digital format;
• matching only the digital signals with corresponding digital data stored in the database to automatically format the matched digital data into a form representative of a medical prescription;
• and
• printing out a readable hard copy of the prescription information directly from the unit.

A hand held unitary medical prescription transcriber and printer unit comprising:

• a voice responsive input device which coverts a user's spoken word acoustic inputs into analog signals;
• a converter operable to convert the analog signals into corresponding outputted digital signals;
• a formatting module operable to automatically format thin outputted digital signals into a form representative of a prescription by searching the outputted digital signals to identify prescription information;
• and
• an integral printer operable to print out the formatted digital signals as readable hard copy directly from the unit.