I had the opportunity to observe Dragon’s speech to text software utilized in a clinical setting. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this software, it basically allows doctors to dictate their notes by talking into a microphone. The software then converts the voice into text that it pastes into whatever text editing screen […]
Technology and Medicine
I recently came across an article about Enlitic, a company that uses an algorithm to determine pathology based on a database of past patients. Considering that I’m a technology enthusiast, I was pretty excited about the potential power of Enlitic. I found myself thinking about how new innovations have been revolutionizing the field; with technologies […]
Can computers replace doctors?
“If a physician can be replaced by a computer, then he or she deserves to be replaced by a computer.” I recently went to a talk given by Dr. Warner Slack, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Co-President of the Center for Clinical Computing. During his talk on the cybermedicine and the […]
