Building a smart medical transcription application on AWS

Medical transcripts document a patient’s encounter with a provider. The transcripts contain information about a patient’s medical history, diagnosis, medications, and past medical procedures. They may also contain information about labs or tests and any referral information if applicable. As you may have guessed, processing and extracting medical transcripts is critical to getting a full understanding of a patient’s condition. The medical transcripts are usually generated by healthcare providers who dictate notes that capture this information. Then, medical transcriptions are manually transcribed into notes by medical transcriptionists. These notes are stored in the EHR system to capture a patient’s encounter summary. The manual transcription and understanding of medical information introduce operational challenges in a healthcare system, especially when done at scale. To solve this problem, we will...