Working with voice-based applications in healthcare

Voice plays a big role in healthcare with multiple conversational and dictation-based types of software relying on speech to capture information critical to patient care. Voice applications in healthcare refer to applications that feature speech as a central element in their workflows. These applications can be patient-facing or can be internal applications only accessible to physicians and nurses. The idea behind voice-based applications is to remove or reduce the need for hands-on keyboard so workflows can be optimized and interactions become more intuitive. Let us look at some common examples of voice-based applications in healthcare:

• Medical transcription software: This is by far the most commonly used voice-based application in healthcare. As the name suggests, medical transcription software allows clinicians to dictate medical terminologies and convert them into text for interpretation, and store them in an Electronic...