Insertion of standard text in transcriptions

• US 8,286,071 B1
• Filed: 06/29/2006
• Issued: 10/09/2012
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Maikhanh
• Application Number:
  US11/478,711
• Time in Patent Office: 2,294 Days
• Field of Search: 715/271, 715/200, 715/201, 715/204, 715/205, 715/209, 715/226, 715/231, 715/234, 715/255, 715/256, 715/273, 715/700, 715/760, 704/246, 704/235, 704/257, 704/260, 704/270, 704/270.1, 704/275, 704/9, 704/E11.004, 704/E13.001, 704/E15.001, 704/E15.011, 704/E15.039, 704/E15.041, 704/E15.043, 704/E15.045, 704/E15.046, 704/E15.049, 704/E17.001, 704/E17.003, 704/E19.001, 704/E19.007, 704/E19.008, 704/E21.001, 704/E21.002, 704/E21.003, 707/3
• US Class Current: 715/205
• 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 non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and comprising computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to:

obtain a first medical transcription of a dictation, the dictation being from a 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, the first trigger phrase being based upon a speaker'"'"'s identity and worktype associated with the dictation, and the analysis of the first medical transcription being based upon a pre-existing speech-recognized transcription of the speaker;

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; and

insert text from the first transcription of the dictation proximate to the actual phrase corresponding to the first trigger phrase into the first standard text block,

wherein the instructions for causing the computer to determine that the first trigger phrase is present in the first transcription cause the computer to so determine if the actual phrase in the first transcription is within a threshold likeliness of being a possible form of the first trigger phrase.

2. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the instructions for causing the computer to insert text are configured to cause the computer to replace at least a portion of the first standard text block with the text proximate to the actual phrase corresponding to the first trigger phrase.

3. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the instructions for causing the computer to insert text are configured to cause the computer to fill a placeholder portion of the first standard text block with the text proximate to the actual phrase corresponding to the first trigger phrase.

4. The computer program product of claim 1 further comprising instructions for causing the computer to display a list indicative of available standard text blocks including the first standard text block and providing descriptions of content of the available standard text blocks.

5. A language processor system for processing a medical dictation transcription, the system comprising a memory containing computer-readable instructions executable by a processor and the processor for executing said instructions such that when the instructions are executed, the system is configured to:

obtain a first medical transcription of a dictation, the dictation being from a 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, the first trigger phrase being based upon a speaker'"'"'s identity and worktype associated with the dictation, and the analysis of the first medical transcription being based upon a pre-existing speech-recognized transcription of the speaker;

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; and

insert text from the first transcription of the dictation proximate to the actual phrase corresponding to the first trigger phrase into the first standard text block,

wherein the instructions for causing the computer to determine that the first trigger phrase is present in the first transcription cause the computer to so determine if the actual phrase in the first transcription is within a threshold likeliness of being a possible form of the first trigger phrase.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein to insert text from the transcription, that is proximate the text corresponding to the trigger phrase, into the first standard text block, the module is configured to replace at least a portion of the standard text block with the text proximate to the text corresponding to the trigger phrase.

7. The system of claim 5 wherein to insert text from the transcription, that is proximate the text corresponding to the trigger phrase, into the first standard text block, the module is configured to fill a placeholder portion of the standard text block with the text proximate to the text corresponding to the trigger phrase.

8. A computer-assisted method of automatically editing a medical record transcription, the method executed by a computer processor to perform the steps comprising:

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

analyzing the first medical transcription for presence of a first trigger phrase associated with a first standard text block, the first trigger phrase being based upon a speaker'"'"'s identity and worktype associated with the dictation, and the analysis of the first medical transcription being based upon a pre-existing speech-recognized transcription of the speaker;

determining 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;

inserting the first standard text block into the first medical transcription; and

inserting text from the first transcription of the dictation proximate to the actual phrase corresponding to the first trigger phrase into the first standard text block,

wherein to determine that the transcription includes the trigger phrase, the module is configured to determine if the actual phrase in the transcription is within a threshold likeliness of being a possible form of the trigger phrase.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the replacing results in an edited medical transcription, the method further comprising transmitting the edited transcription to the medical personnel before further editing, if any, by a medical transcriptionist if the edited medical transcription comprises at least a predetermined level of standard text from the standard text blocks.

10. The method of claim 8 further comprising providing a list of the standard text blocks to at least one of a medical transcriptionist and the medical personnel wherein the list provides descriptions of content of the standard text blocks.