Automatic Decision Support

• US 20070299665A1
• Filed: 06/21/2007
• Published: 12/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Multimodal Technologies Incorporated (3M Company)
• Original Assignee: Multimodal Technologies Incorporated (3M Company)
• Inventors: Koll, Detlef, Finke, Michael
• Application Number:
  US11/766,780
• Publication Number:
  US 20070299665A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/235
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/02 Feature extraction for speech recognition; Selection of recognition unit
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/00 Speech or audio signals analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis in musical instruments G10H
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof

Abstract

Speech is transcribed to produce a transcript. At least some of the text in the transcript is encoded as data. These codings may be verified for accuracy and corrected if inaccurate. The resulting transcript is provided to a decision support system to perform functions such as checking for drug-drug, drug-allergy, and drug-procedure interactions, and checking against clinical performance measures (such as recommended treatments). Alerts and other information output by the decision support system are associated with the transcript. The transcript and associated decision support output are provided to a physician to assist the physician in reviewing the transcript and in taking any appropriate action in response to the transcript.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

(A) applying an automatic speech recognizer to a spoken audio stream to produce a first document including first codings associated with text in the first document;

(B) providing the first document to an automatic decision support system;

(C) receiving, from the automatic decision support system, decision support output derived from the first document; and

(D) transmitting to a recipient a second document, derived from the first document and the decision support output, wherein the second document does not include the first codings.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein transcribing the spoken audio stream and providing the first document to the automatic decision support system are performed contemporaneously.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first codings encode concepts represented by the text.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein (A) comprises:

(A)(1) identifying a second document including second codings associated with the text;

(A)(2) determining whether any of the second codings is inaccurate; and

(A)(2) correcting any of the second codings determined to be inaccurate to produce the first document.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

(A) storing a record associating the output with the first document.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

(D) rendering the first document based on the output to produce a rendering of the first document.

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10. An apparatus comprising:

speech recognition means for applying an automatic speech recognizer to a spoken audio stream to produce a first document including first codings associated with text in the first document;

document provision means for providing the first document to an automatic decision support system;

output receiving means for receiving, from the automatic decision support system, decision support output derived from the first document; and

document transmission means for transmitting to a recipient a second document, derived from the first document and the decision support output, wherein the second document does not include the first codings.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the document provision means comprises means for providing the first document to the automatic decision support system contemporaneously with operation of the speech recognition means.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the speech recognition means comprises:

means for identifying a second document including second codings associated with the text;

means for determining whether any of the second codings is inaccurate; and

means for correcting any of the second codings determined to be inaccurate to produce the first document.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, further comprising:

means for storing a record associating the output with the first document.

14. The apparatus of claim 10, further comprising:

means for rendering the first document based on the output to produce a rendering of the first document.

15. A computer-implemented method comprising:

(A) applying an automatic speech recognizer to a spoken audio stream to produce a first document including first codings associated with text in the first document;

(B) applying a decision support method to the first document to produce decision support output;

(C) storing a record associating the decision support output with the first document; and

(D) transmitting to a recipient a second document, derived from the first document and the decision support output, wherein the second document does not include the first codings.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein (B) comprises determining whether the first document indicates at least one of a drug-drug, drug-allergy, and drug-procedure interaction.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein (B) comprises determining whether the first document indicates satisfaction of a clinical performance measure.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the first codings encode concepts represented by the text.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein (A) comprises:

(A)(1) identifying a third document including third codings associated with the text;

(A)(2) determining whether any of the third codings is inaccurate; and

(A)(2) correcting any of the third codings determined to be inaccurate to produce the first document.

23. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

(A) rendering the first document based on the output to produce a rendering of the first document.

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24. An apparatus comprising:

speech recognition means for applying an automatic speech recognizer to a spoken audio stream to produce a first document including first codings associated with text in the first document;

decision support means for applying a decision support method to the first document to produce decision support output;

record storage means for storing a record associating the decision support output with the first document; and

document transmission means for transmitting to a recipient a second document, derived from the first document and the decision support output, wherein the second document does not include the first codings.

25. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein the decision support means comprises means for determining whether the first document indicates at least one of a drug-drug, drug-allergy, and drug-procedure interaction.

26. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein the decision support means comprises determining whether the first document indicates satisfaction of a clinical performance measure.

27. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein the speech recognition means comprises:

means for identifying a third document including third codings associated with the text;

means for determining whether any of the third codings is inaccurate; and

means for correcting any of the third codings determined to be inaccurate to produce the first document.

28. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein the record storage means comprises means for modifying the first document based on the output.

29. The apparatus of claim 24, further comprising:

means for rendering the first document based on the output to produce a rendering of the first document.

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