Hand held medical prescription transcriber and printer unit
First Claim
1. A hand held unitary medical prescription transcriber and printer unit comprising:
- structure of a size to be conveniently held in a user'"'"'s band, said structure including, a voice responsive input device which converts the user'"'"'s spoken word acoustic inputs into analog signals, a converter operable to convert said analog signals into corresponding outputted digital signals, a database of medical prescription information stored in digital format, a formatting module operable to match only outputted digital signals from the converter with corresponding prescription digital data stored in the database to automatically format the matched digital signals into a form representative of a medical prescription, and an integral printer operable to receive the formatted digital signals and to print out the formatted digital signals as readable hard copy directly from the unit.
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Abstract
This invention relates to a unitary hand held medical prescription transcriber and printing unit. More specifically, a small, portable electronic device is provided which can record words spoken by a physician and from those words generate a printed medical prescription that is delivered directly from the device itself. The unit digitizes words spoken by the user, processes the speech to recognize the words spoken by comparing the acoustic spectral characteristics of the spoken words to the characteristics of a database of known words, formats those words in the form of a prescription, and prints the prescription onto paper using a small integral printer contained in the unit. In a alternate embodiment, the unit may display the prescription on a liquid crystal display screen and the user may edit the prescription before printing a hard copy. The unit assists in accurate dispensing of medicines by providing a legible prescription printout, while at the same time being neither time consuming nor difficult to operate.
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1. A hand held unitary medical prescription transcriber and printer unit comprising:
structure of a size to be conveniently held in a user'"'"'s band, said structure including, a voice responsive input device which converts the user'"'"'s spoken word acoustic inputs into analog signals, a converter operable to convert said analog signals into corresponding outputted digital signals, a database of medical prescription information stored in digital format, a formatting module operable to match only outputted digital signals from the converter with corresponding prescription digital data stored in the database to automatically format the matched digital signals into a form representative of a medical prescription, and an integral printer operable to receive the formatted digital signals and to print out the formatted digital signals as readable hard copy directly from the unit. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A process for preparing a printed copy of a medical prescription using a hand held transcriber and printer unit, said process comprising:
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providing a voice responsive input device which converts the user'"'"'s spoken word acoustic inputs into analog signals;
converting said analog signals into corresponding digital signals;
providing a database of medical prescription information stored in digital format;
matching only the digital signals with corresponding digital data stored in the database to automatically format the matched digital data into a form representative of a medical prescription; and
printing out a readable hard copy of the prescription information directly from the unit. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A hand held unitary medical prescription transcriber and printer unit comprising:
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a voice responsive input device which coverts a user'"'"'s spoken word acoustic inputs into analog signals;
a converter operable to convert the analog signals into corresponding outputted digital signals;
a formatting module operable to automatically format thin outputted digital signals into a form representative of a prescription by searching the outputted digital signals to identify prescription information; and
an integral printer operable to print out the formatted digital signals as readable hard copy directly from the unit. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29)
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