INSERTION OF STANDARD TEXT IN TRANSCRIPTION

• US 20120310644A1
• Filed: 08/13/2012
• Published: 12/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DeliverHealth Solutions LLC
• Original Assignee: eScription, Inc. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Zimmerman, Roger S., Egerman, Paul, Titemore, Robert G., Zavaliagkos, George
• Granted Patent: US 10,423,721 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/235
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records

Abstract

A computer program product, for automatically editing a medical record transcription, resides on a computer-readable medium and includes computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to obtain a first medical transcription of a dictation, the dictation being from medical personnel and concerning a patient, analyze the first medical transcription for presence of a first trigger phrase associated with a first standard text block, determine that the first trigger phrase is present in the first medical transcription if an actual phrase in the first medical transcription corresponds with the first trigger phrase, and insert the first standard text block into the first medical transcription.

Claims

1. A computer program product for automatically editing a medical record transcription, the computer program product residing on a computer-readable medium and comprising computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to:

obtain a first medical transcription of a dictation, the dictation being from medical personnel and concerning a patient;

prompt a user for at least one user-selected trigger phrase;

prompt the user for user-selected standard text corresponding to the user-selected trigger phrase;

store the user-selected trigger phrase in association with the user-selected standard text for use in determining that the user-selected trigger phrase is present in the first transcription.

analyze the first medical transcription for presence of a first trigger phrase associated with a first standard text block;

determine that the first trigger phrase is present in the first medical transcription if an actual phrase in the first medical transcription corresponds with the first trigger phrase; and

insert the first standard text block into the first medical transcription.

2. A computer program product for automatically editing a medical record transcription, the computer program product residing on a computer-readable medium and comprising computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to:

compare multiple edited medical transcriptions corresponding to multiple dictations;

identify similar portions of the multiple medical transcriptions;

determine an automatically-determined standard text block corresponding to the similar portions;

store at least one indication of texts from transcriptions of the multiple dictations corresponding to the similar portions as at least one automatically-determined trigger phrase corresponding to the automatically-determined standard text block;

obtain a first medical transcription of a dictation, the dictation being from medical personnel and concerning a patient;

analyze the first medical transcription for presence of a first trigger phrase associated with a first standard text block;

determine that the first trigger phrase is present in the first medical transcription if

an actual phrase in the first medical transcription corresponds with the first trigger phrase; and

insert the first standard text block into the first medical transcription.

3. A computer program product for automatically editing a medical record transcription, the computer program product residing on a computer-readable medium and comprising computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to:

obtain a first medical transcription of a dictation, the dictation being from medical personnel and concerning a patient;

analyze the first medical transcription for presence of a first trigger phrase associated with a first standard text block;

determine that the first trigger phrase is present in the first medical transcription if an actual phrase in the first medical transcription corresponds with the first trigger phrase;

insert the first standard text block into the first medical transcription;

determine presence of a second standard text block in an edited medical transcription;

determine a second trigger phrase in a second medical transcription associated with the edited medical transcription, the second trigger phrase corresponding to the second standard text block; and

store the second trigger phrase for use in determining presence of the second trigger phrase in another transcription.

4. A language processor module for processing a medical dictation transcription, the module being configured to:

prompt a user for at least one user-selected trigger phrase;

prompt the user for user-selected standard text corresponding to the user-selected trigger phrase; and

store the user-selected trigger phrase in association with the user-selected standard text for retrieval and use in determining that the user-selected trigger phrase is present in a medical dictation transcription.

5. The module of claim 4 being further configured to:

prompt the user for at least one of a speaker and a worktype to be associated with the user-selected standard text and the user-selected trigger phrase; and

store the at least one of speaker and worktype in association with the user-selected standard text and the user-selected trigger phrase.

6. A language processor module for processing a medical dictation transcription, the module being configured to:

compare multiple edited medical transcriptions corresponding to multiple dictations;

identify similar portions of the multiple medical transcriptions;

determine an automatically-determined standard text block corresponding to the similar portions; and

store an indication of at least one portion of text from at least one of the transcriptions of the multiple dictations corresponding to the similar portions of the edited medical transcriptions as an automatically-determined trigger phrase corresponding to the automatically-determined standard text block for retrieval and use in determining that the automatically-determined trigger phrase is present in another medical dictation transcription.

7. The module of claim 6 wherein to determine the automatically-determined standard text block, the module is configured to determine that the similar portions are above a threshold amount of being identical.

8. The module of claim 6 being further configured to verify the similar portions by comparing at least one of the similar portions to at least one other transcription for a speaker of the multiple dictations to determine presence of another text portion similar to the at least one of the similar portions.

9. A language processor module for processing a medical dictation transcription, the module being configured to:

compare multiple edited medical transcriptions corresponding to multiple dictations;

identify similar portions of the multiple medical transcriptions;

determine an automatically-determined standard text block corresponding to the similar portions; and

store an indication of at least one portion of text from at least one of the transcriptions of the multiple dictations corresponding to the similar portions of the edited medical transcriptions as an automatically-determined trigger phrase corresponding to the automatically-determined standard text block for retrieval and use in determining that the automatically-determined trigger phrase is present in another medical dictation transcription.

10. The module of claim 9 wherein to determine the automatically-determined standard text block, the module is configured to determine that the similar portions are above a threshold amount of being identical.

11. The module of claim 9 being further configured to verify the similar portions by comparing at least one of the similar portions to at least one other transcription for a speaker of the multiple dictations to determine presence of another text portion similar to the at least one of the similar portions.

12. A language processor module for processing a medical dictation transcription, the module being configured to:

determine presence of a standard text block in an edited medical transcription;

determine a trigger phrase in a literal medical transcription portion associated with the edited medical transcription, the trigger phrase corresponding to the standard text block; and

store the trigger phrase for use in determining presence of the trigger phrase in another transcription.

13. The module of claim 12 being configured to store a plurality of automatically-determined trigger phrases corresponding to the automatically determined standard text block.

14. The module of claim 12 being further configured to store the automatically-determined trigger phrase in association with at least one of speaker and worktype.