title: Application of speech recognition data entry enhancements in an Electronic Patient Care Report (ePCR).
abstract: Based on the Alabama Patient Care Report we developed a basic Electronic Patient Care Report (ePCR) to collect data in an EMS environment. The ePCR GUI is now enhanced using speech recognition to provide speech-based command and control mechanisms to input structured data and initiate processes. This voice-enabled ePCR (vePCR) is used to evaluate the feasibility of handling EMS test cases and to get user feedback about the speech recognition functionality and usefulness.
authors.affiliation: Health Informatics Program, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA.
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mazza
authors.forename: Marcie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Battles
authors.forename: Helmuth F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Orthner
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D049250:Speech Recognition Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface